English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 345 of 1086
A defensive formation, used from antiquity through the early Middle Ages, in which soldiers stand shoulder to shoulder with their shields overlapping, creating a continuous barrier against enemy attack.
A person who carries a shield, either a warrior, or a lower-ranking person who carries a shield for a higher-ranking person.
Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native to Sri Lanka and Southern Asia.
Pronunciation spelling of shit, representing African-American Vernacular and Southern US English.
The key on a typewriter used to select uppercase letters and certain special characters by physically moving the mechanism
A lock key on a typewriter, which, when pressed, causes all subsequently typed letters to be capitalized.
To change one's opinion in a way that contradicts what one has previously held.
To surreptitiously restore a deck of cards to their original sequence after having cut the deck.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 54,294 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 1,086 pages, and you are currently viewing page 345. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "S" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.