English Words: S
6,566 words · Page 36 of 132
To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
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.
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.
A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.
The act of transmitting and/or receiving sexually suggestive text messages and/or photographs between cell phones equipped with text messaging.
A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes.
An archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Seychelles.
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.
A Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married, divorced or widowed woman
Abbreviation of Source Filmmaker, a software tool for video capture and editing, often used to create animations.
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.