English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 373 of 1086

A woman of short stature.

The s character, as distinct from the long s — the ſ character.

A system of numeric names in which every new term with -illion greater than million is 1,000 times the previous term. (i.e., a billion is a thousand million.)

short sellernoun

A person or organization that participates in short selling

short sharp shocknoun

A regime intended to deter crime by making an immediate severe impact.

short shortnoun

A very short film, typically of a length less than three minutes.

short short storynoun

A work of fiction that is briefer than a typical short story.

short shortsnoun

Trousers that are very short, covering the pelvis but exposing most of the legs; hot pants.

short shriftnoun

A rushed sacrament of confession given to a prisoner who is to be executed very soon.

short sleepernoun

A person who consistently requires substantially less sleep every day than the customary amount for most people of the same age and developmental level.

short squeezenoun

A rapid increase in the price of a stock caused primarily by technical factors in the market rather than underlying fundamentals.

short strokesnoun

The final steps of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious.

short stuffnoun

Term of address for a child or small person.

short sweeteningnoun

Sugar.

SHORT syndromenoun

An uncommon autosomal-dominant condition marked by short stature, hyperextensibility of the joints and/or inguinal hernias, ocular depression, Rieger anomaly, and delayed teething.

short tempernoun

The personality trait of being quick to anger.

short timenoun

A period of reduced workhours.

short titlenoun

An abbreviated form of entry for a book in a list or catalog that usually gives only the author's name, the title in brief, the date and place of publication, and the publisher's or printer's name.

short trousersnoun

Trousers reaching as far as the knee, typically worn by young boys.

short twentieth centuryname

The period between 1914 and 1991, from the beginning of World War I to the fall of the Soviet Union.

short viewnoun

A short description that touches on the most important aspects of a subject.

short wavenoun

A wave in a gas or liquid with a relatively short wavelength.

short weightnoun

Weight that is less than that declared or less than one is charged for.

short-actingadj

Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the short term.

short-changeverb

Alternative form of shortchange.

short-coatverb

To dress in short-coats.

short-datedadj

Having little time to run from its date; soon due.

short-distanceadj

Relating to travel between places relatively close together.

short-faced bearnoun

A member of a subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear.

short-haired bumblebeenoun

A species of bumblebee, Bombus subterraneus, native to Eurasia.

short-handnoun

Alternative form of shorthand.

short-handedadj

Alternative form of shorthanded.

short-handednessnoun

Alternative form of shorthandedness.

short-hauladj

Traveling or involving a short distance.

short-leggedadj

Having short legs, particularly in proportion to one's body.

short-leggednessnoun

The state or quality of being short-legged.

short-livedadj

Alive or existent for only a short period of time.

short-livednessnoun

The quality of being short-lived.

short-neck'dadj

Archaic form of short-necked.

short-paidadj

Paid less than the amount owed; underpaid, especially due to clerical error, billing adjustment, or miscalculation.

short-payverb

To pay (someone) less than the amount that is owed; to underpay through error, omission, or miscalculation.

short-period cometnoun

Any periodic comet with an orbital period of less than 200 years.

short-sea shippingnoun

Shipping that takes place in coastal waters or on short sea crossings.

short-shipverb

To ship a smaller quantity of (goods) than the customer ordered.

short-sightedadj

Near-sighted; myopic; unable to focus on distant objects.

short-sightedlyadv

in a short-sighted manner.

short-sightednessnoun

Myopia: impairment of vision's acuity for distant objects.

short-sleevedadj

Having sleeves that are not long enough to reach the elbows.

short-stopverb

To stop (a process, trip, trajectory, etc.) before it complete; to cause to stop short.

short-tackverb

To tack several times in rapid succession when sailing upwind in a narrow waterway.

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 373. 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.