English Words: S

6,566 words · Page 36 of 132

Severnname

A river in England and Wales that flows into the Bristol Channel.

Sevillename

The capital city of Andalusia, Spain.

sewverb

To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.

sewagenoun

A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.

Sewardname

A surname.

sewedverb

simple past and past participle of sew

Sewellname

A surname.

sewernoun

A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

seweragenoun

A network of sewer pipes that geographically transfers wastewater; a sewer system.

sewingverb

present participle and gerund of sew

sewnverb

past participle of sew

sexnoun

A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species; the system of such categories, which can differ by organism or by taxonomic branch.

sexedadj

Having a sex; being male or female.

sexesnoun

plural of sex

sexieradj

comparative form of sexy: more sexy

sexiestadj

superlative form of sexy: most sexy

sexinessnoun

The state or quality of being sexy, of possessing the traits of sexual appeal.

sexismnoun

The belief that people of one sex (or gender) are inherently different from those of another sex, and generally that one sex is superior to others.

sexistadj

Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.

sexlessadj

Without sexual activity.

sexonoun

Synonym of sex (“sexual intercourse”).

sexologistnoun

Someone who studies, or is an expert in, sex and sexuality.

sexologynoun

The study of sex and sexuality, usually from a psychological or clinical perspective.

sextnoun

Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.

sextantnoun

A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.

sextetnoun

Any group of six people or things.

sextingnoun

The act of transmitting and/or receiving sexually suggestive text messages and/or photographs between cell phones equipped with text messaging.

sextonnoun

A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.

sexualadj

Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes.

sexualitynoun

The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.

sexualizationnoun

The act or process of sexualizing.

sexualizeverb

To render sexual, or apply sex appeal to (a person, thing, or concept).

sexuallyadv

In a sexual manner; erotically.

sexyadj

Having sex appeal; attractive.

Seychellesname

An archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Seychelles.

Seymourname

A surname from Anglo-Norman.

sezverb

Eye dialect spelling of says.

señornoun

A Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or an older man.

señoranoun

A Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married, divorced or widowed woman

señoritanoun

A young, unmarried woman in or from a Hispanophone community.

sfnoun

Alternative form of SF (science fiction)

SFAnoun

Initialism of sweet Fanny Adams.

SFCname

Initialism of Scottish Funding Council.

SFLname

Initialism of Scottish Football League.

SFMname

Abbreviation of Source Filmmaker, a software tool for video capture and editing, often used to create animations.

SFOname

Initialism of Serious Fraud Office.

SFRname

Initialism of Socialist Federal Republic.

SFXnoun

Abbreviation of sound effects.

SGname

Initialism of Stanley Gibbons, stamp dealer and catalogue publisher.

SGDnoun

Initialism of stochastic gradient descent.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 6,566 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 132 pages, and you are currently viewing page 36. 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.