English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 347 of 1086
A citrus fruit, native to Taiwan and Okinawa (Citrus reticulata, syn. Citrus depressa)
A light-red to red mineral with the chemical formula Pb3CaAl(Si5O14)(OH)3 · 3H2O.
The long lock of hair left on the shaved head of an orthodox Hindu, especially a Brahmin or temple priest.
A kneeling posture with joined hands and bowed head, used in Burma to show respect to a superior.
the preparation time before a sumo bout during which the rikishi try to gain a psychological advantage by intense staring (niramiai) and when salt is ceremonially thrown (kiyome-jio)
The two enamel lines, embedded in the dohyo, behind which the rikishi crouch in preparation for the tachiai.
A member of the Hōjō clan who served as regent of the shogunate, from 1199 to 1333, during the Kamakura period.
One of the basic sumo exercises, in which the rikishi raises a leg high in the air to the side, then brings it down with a stamp. It is also performed on the dohyo to drive away bad spirits.
An architectural style found in Shanghai, China, consisting of two or three floors and a front yard protected by high walls.
A town and civil parish with a town council in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2326).
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 347. 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.