English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 380 of 1086
A professional excavator on cultural resource management projects, who has done extensive field work.
Any of a group of moderate-sized frogs in the genus Hemisus and family Hemisotidae, which have a small upturned nose.
A haphazard collection of software assembled in terms of quantity rather than quality.
To provide a hint or to reveal partial information in order to gain attention or arouse interest.
To accustom (someone) to a physical place, especially a building, site for an event, etc.
A building for exhibiting cattle and other domestic animals, as at a county fairgrounds.
A bench or stand on which entries are placed at dog or other animal shows, horticultural shows, fairs, and similar events.
A newly built, decorated, and furnished flat that is intended as an example rather than to be rented.
An open demonstration of power by display of a great number of people or resources.
A vote in which people raise a hand in order to state their agreement with something.
To indicate by appearance or other factors that a person is no longer young, or ageing, or of an object, no longer new and ageing.
To reveal how one really is, as opposed to how one has been portrayed or after having been deceptively and deliberately misleading.
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 380. 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.