English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 354 of 1086

shipsmithnoun

Someone who forges the ironwork for ships

shipspeaknoun

nautical jargon

shipstuffnoun

A mixture of the products other than flour obtained from the milling of the wheatberry.

shiptverb

simple past and past participle of ship

shiptimenoun

The local time on board a ship (or spacecraft).

Shiptonthorpename

A village in Shipton Thorpe parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8543).

shipwardadv

toward a ship

shipwardsadv

Towards a ship.

shipwaynoun

The sloping dry dock in which a ship is built and from where it is launched.

shipwideadj

Throughout a ship.

shipworknoun

The work of building and repairing ships.

shipworkernoun

A person who works in a shipyard.

shipworksnoun

A place for constructing ships; a shipyard.

shipwormnoun

Any of several wormlike marine molluscs (not true worms) of the family Teredinidae that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water; specifically, the naval shipworm or turu (Teredo navalis), the type species of the genus Teredo.

shipwrackenoun

Obsolete spelling of shipwrack.

shipwrecknoun

A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.

shipwreckedadj

Stranded as a result of a shipwreck.

shipwreckeenoun

One who is shipwrecked.

shipwreckernoun

One who causes a shipwreck.

shipwreckyadj

Characteristic of a shipwreck.

shipwrightnoun

A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones.

shipyardnoun

A place where ships are built and repaired.

Shiqiname

A subdistrict of Zhongshan, Guangdong, China.

Shiqianname

A county of Tongren, Guizhou, China.

Shiquanname

A county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China.

Shiraname

A surname.

shirahnoun

Praise to god in the form of song

Shirakname

A province of Armenia.

shirakashinoun

The Asian tree Quercus myrsinifolia.

Shirakawaname

A surname from Japanese.

shiraleenoun

Burden; load.

shiranui-gatanoun

The less common ring-entering ceremony performed by yokozuna, consisting only of offensive moves.

shiratakinoun

Thin, translucent, gelatinous traditional Japanese noodles made from the Asian plant konjac.

Shirazname

A city in Iran, the seat of Shiraz County's Central District and the capital of Fars Province, near the remains of Persepolis.

shirenoun

An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially (England), a county having a name ending in -shire.

shire townnoun

The administrative centre, or capital, of a shire.

shire-reevenoun

A local official in Mediaeval England appointed by the King to oversee a shire.

Shireenname

A female given name from Persian.

Shirehamptonname

A district in northwestern Bristol, England, next to Avonmouth and historically in Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST5376).

Shiremanname

A surname.

shiremotenoun

An English court of the county held periodically by the sheriff together with the bishop or the ealdorman.

Shireoaksname

A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5581).

Shirername

A surname.

Shirimename

A yōkai whose appearance is of a person with an eye in place of the anus.

Shirinname

A female given name from Persian.

shirinbafnoun

A kind of fine white muslin.

shiritorinoun

A Japanese word game wherein each player must produce a word that begins with the kana that the previous player's word ended with. Only nouns may be used. Words may not be repeated, and a player who chooses a word ending in ん (n) loses, since no normal Japanese noun begins with ん (n). See also: word chain.

shirkverb

To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.

shirkernoun

One who shirks a duty or responsibility.

shirkestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of shirk

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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 354. 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.

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