English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 377 of 1086
A sexual complex where an adult is attracted to young, typically prepubescent boys, or the fictional depictions thereof.
concrete conveyed through a hose and pneumatically projected at high velocity onto a surface
A person employed to prepare, position and detonate explosives to demolish buildings and structures, or dislodge rocks and soil.
The work of preparing, positioning and detonating explosives to demolish buildings and structures, or dislodge rocks and soil.
A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
An approach in which the subject is indiscriminate and haphazard, using breadth, spread, or quantity in lieu of accuracy, planning, etc.
A narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.
A laboratory method for the determining the identities of proteins in a mixture.
A DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA strand are generated at random, sequenced, and reassembled to form a sequence of the original strand.
A tournament format in which all groups of contestants tee off simultaneously from different holes.
A hole, very deep but only a few inches wide, which is used to drop explosives beneath the Earth's surface to ease petroleum extraction.
noise due to random variations in the number and velocity of electrons or photons in a device.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: (especially law enforcement) indicates that a firearm has been discharged in the vicinity of the speaker.
A ski with several shot glasses attached onto it, used for a drinking activity where multiple people hold the ski and consume a shot simultaneously.
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 377. 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.