English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 378 of 1086
Anime and manga that explore emotional, but largely platonic, homoerotic relationships between women.
To believe (something) is an obligation [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].
Implying that there has been a fight and the other party came off even worse.
A small LCD display integrated into the top of certain digital cameras, usually to the right of the viewfinder. It allows the photographer to quickly assess important settings of the camera at a glance, such as aperture, shutter speed, white balance or free space remaining on the memory card.
A feint made by dropping one shoulder in order to indicate a movement that one does not make.
The time between high and low season in a travel market, or, if the market is divided into four segments, the time just below high season.
An ornamental knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulders of fashionable men's jackets, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A 1978 controversy around the Pittsburgh Steelers practising in shoulder pads during an off-season period in which such drills were not allowed under NFL rules.
A trans woman who is clockable due to having significantly broader shoulders than a typical cis woman.
A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more males.
A follower of urban planning professor Donald Shoup, known for his work on negative consequences of parking requirements.
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 378. 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.