English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 351 of 1086
A physical object (either natural or man-made) worshipped at or near Shinto shrines as a repository for spirits or kami.
Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
Highly produced, extravagant, and spectacular in a tightly-controlled, somewhat formulaic way.
A Japanese delicacy made from small pieces of the meat of marine animals in a paste of the animals' salted, fermented viscera.
A tetracyclic triterpenoid ketone (1R,4aS,4bS,6aS,8R,10aR,10bS,12aS)-1,4b,6a,8,10a,12a-hexamethyl-8-(4-methylpent-3-en-1-yl)hexadecahydrochrysen-2(1H)-one
A pro-shipper slogan encouraging fans to focus on their preferred ships, avoiding ship wars and discourse over which ships are acceptable.
An ornament consisting of a model ship inside a glass bottle, usually one with a narrow neck which makes it difficult to see how the ship was put in place.
A country or organization that is poorly run by leaders who lack the expertise to cope with the problems that arise and equally inexpert subjects or members who attempt to influence those leaders.
A large square-rigged warship large enough to have a place in the line of battle, with up to 140 guns on at least two decks. A capital ship from the age of sail, superior to a frigate; usually, a seventy-four, or three-decker.
Junior officer rank used in the navies of some Romance-speaking countries, usually equal in rank to the British rank of sub-lieutenant or the American rank of lieutenant junior grade.
Intermediate junior officer rank used in the navies of some Francophone countries, usually equal in rank to the British rank of sub-lieutenant or the American rank of lieutenant junior grade.
Most junior officer used in the navies of some Francophone countries, usually equal in rank to the British rank of midshipman or the American rank of ensign.
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 351. 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.