English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 352 of 1086
Most senior junior officer used in the navies of some Romance-speaking or European countries, usually equal in rank to the Anglophone rank of lieutenant.
Long, narrow, white clouds formed when the exhaust from ships interacts with atmospheric water vapor.
An intense and sometimes hostile disagreement between shippers of rival ships in a fandom.
Shipping delays caused by a large influx of online orders in the United States in the year 2020.
An intermediary who negotiates between shipowners and people wanting to charter shipping
The work of a shipbroker, negotiating between shipowners and people wanting to charter shipping.
Someone who creates the decorative wooden elements for ships, such as figureheads, catheads, and so on
The making of decorative wooden carvings for a ship, such as figureheads and catheads.
A female fictional humanoid character featuring design elements of a ship, such as anchors, naval guns or torpedo tubes; usually a namesake moe anthropomorphization of a real-life warship.
A type of wooden board that has rabbets to allow them to be overlapped, commonly used for the exterior siding of buildings.
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 352. 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.