English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 38 of 1086

In a salty manner.

saltimbanconoun

A quack doctor, a fraud.

saltimbanquenoun

Tumbler, street acrobat.

saltimboccanoun

An Italian dish of veal, thinly sliced and rolled in prosciutto ham and sage leaves.

A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.

The property of being, or tasting, salty.

The act of sprinkling salt, as on food or on an icy road.

An ordinary (geometric design) in the shape of an X. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed.

Having a saltire.

In the form of a saltire; crossing diagonally.

Somewhat salty.

In a saltish manner.

saltishnessnoun

The quality of being saltish.

Any land feature characterized by an abundance of salt, including salt flats, salt pans, or salt marshes.

free of salt

saltlessnessnoun

Absence of salt.

Resembling salt.

In a salt way; tasting of salt.

A manufacturer of salt.

The manufacture of salt.

A surname.

Alternative form of salt marsh

A salt seller; one who deals in salt.

A wide-mouthed bottle with glass bung for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.

The state or quality of being salt; saltiness.

A somersault.

salto mortalenoun

A dangerous and daring jump with possibly lethal outcome.

A salimeter.

A saltwater lake in Imperial and Riverside Counties, California, along the San Andreas Fault.

A small carnivorous dinosaur, Saltopus elginensis, which lived during the upper Triassic era.

A diminutive saltire.

A surname from Spanish.

A parish of the East Lothian council area, Scotland, containing the villages of East Saltoun and West Saltoun.

Potassium nitrate.

Of or pertaining to saltpetre.

Resistant to the corrosive effects of salt.

A surname from Yiddish.

A surname.

A small spoon used for serving or measuring salt, equivalent to ⅛ teaspoon.

saltspoonfulnoun

As much as will fit in a saltspoon.

saltspray rosenoun

A plant of the rose species Rosa rugosa.

Salt that has accumulated and hardened into a rocklike consistency.

A break of continuity in time.

Alternative form of salt water.

Any of various plants of the genus Atriplex.

Synonym of saltworks.

A worker in a saltworks.

A place where salt is refined and prepared commercially.

Certain plants of various genera that grow in dry, alkali soils, including the following:

Tasting of salt.

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 38. 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.