English Words: S

6,566 words · Page 39 of 132

A coastal province in eastern China. Capital: Jinan.

A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.

A male given name from Irish.

an ancient dynasty in China

To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly

A deity in Hinduism, the personification of the planet Saturn, associated with justice, karma, and discipline.

The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.

A male given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.

simple past and past participle of shank

One who shanks (in any of various senses).

A town and civil parish with a town council on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5881).

A surname from Irish.

A prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on the border with Bhutan.

The longest river in the British Isles, which flows through Ireland into the Atlantic Ocean.

A call for peace, often recited three times as a prayer for peace of the soul.

A roughly-built hut or cabin.

An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.

A province in the northern part of China. Capital: Taiyuan.

A collection of Chinese martial arts that claim affiliation with the Shaolin Monastery.

The status or condition of something

Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.

Without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.

Having a pleasing shape, pleasant to look at.

Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.

plural of shape

To change one's shape or form (into another) through often magical means, normally applied only to living beings.

shapeshifternoun

A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.

shapeshiftingnoun

A change in shape; a transformation.

Foundation garments, designed to hold a part of the body in a particular form.

The action of the verb to shape.

A surname from Yiddish.

A Jewish surname.

A male given name from Arabic of modern American usage.

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.

A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

plural of shard

A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

Suitable for sharing.

Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.

meek, gentle, gentlemanly, upstanding, innocent

shareholdernoun

One who owns shares of stock in a corporation.

shareholdingadj

Owning shares.

One who shares.

plural of share

A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.

A diminutive of the female given name Sharon, variant of Sherry.

A body of religious law forming a part of the Islamic tradition based on the scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and hadith.

Alternative spelling of shari'a.

A traditional Arab tribal title for one who serves as the protector of the tribe and all tribal assets.

Something shared; a point in common.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 6,566 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 132 pages, and you are currently viewing page 39. 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.