English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 394 of 1086

shutupnoun

A steep canyon in the Solitario region of Texas in the United States.

shutwingnoun

Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Cordulephya, endemic to eastern Australia.

shuyookhnoun

plural of sheikh

shvanoun

A Hebrew nikud vowel sign written as two vertical dots beneath a letter, in Israeli Hebrew indicating either the phoneme /e/ or the complete absence of a vowel.

shvantznoun

The penis.

shvartsernoun

Alternative form of shvartze (masculine)

shvartsersnoun

plural of shvartser

shvartzenoun

A person of sub-Saharan African descent; a black person.

shvartzernoun

Alternative form of shvartze (masculine)

shvigernoun

A mother-in-law.

shvitznoun

Sweat.

shvitzernoun

A show-off or braggart.

shwanoun

Alternative form of schwa.

Shwachman-Diamond syndromenoun

A rare congenital disorder characterized by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, bone marrow dysfunction, skeletal abnormalities, and short stature.

shwagnoun

Alternative spelling of schwag (“low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana”).

shwarmanoun

Alternative form of shawarma.

shwastedadj

Extremely intoxicated.

Shwe Kokkoname

A town in Myawaddy district, Kayin, Myanmar.

Shweboname

A town in the Sagaing Region, Burma (Myanmar).

shweshwenoun

A patterned South African fabric used mainly for women's clothing.

shwoppingnoun

The practice of taking old items to a shop to be donated or recycled, while also buying new items.

shyadj

Easily frightened; timid.

shy awayverb

to draw back in fear, cringe, back down

shy away fromverb

To avoid out of fear or caution.

shy bairns get nowtproverb

If you're too shy, or don't ask, you will not get what you want.

shy bladdernoun

An inability to urinate in the presence of others.

Shy-Drager syndromenoun

A rare neurodegenerative disorder characterized by parkinsonism, autonomic dysfunction, and ataxia.

Shyamname

A male given name of Indian usage.

Shyannename

A female given name.

shybienoun

A shy person.

shyeahintj

Alternative form of yeah.

shyfuladj

Inclined to shy, or jump back in fear.

shyingverb

present participle and gerund of shy

shyishadj

Somewhat shy.

Shylaname

A female given name originating as a coinage.

shylocknoun

A loan shark; a usurer.

Shylockianadj

Of, relating to, or in the manner of the character Shylock from Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, such as being hard-hearted, exploitative, avaricious, deceitful, or vengeful.

shylyadv

In a shy manner.

Shymkentname

A city in Kazakhstan.

shynessnoun

The quality of being shy; a fear of social interactions.

shypoonoun

Second-rate liquor; beer.

shyrdaknoun

A colourful stitched felt rug, traditionally hand-made in Central Asia.

shysharknoun

Any of the deep-water catsharks of the genus Haploblepharus.

shysternoun

Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.

shysterishadj

Like a shyster; fraudulent, disreputable, dishonest.

shysterismnoun

The behavior and activities of shysters.

shytnoun

Filter-avoidance spelling of shit.

Shëngjinname

A coastal town in northwestern Albania that is a growing tourist destination due to its beaches and resort accommodations, located 5-6 km northwest of the city of Lezhë by the Adriatic Sea below a mountain side; the town was the site of the ancient harbour of Nymphaeum and is now home to one of Albania's ports of entry; it is the seat of its eponymous municipal unit.

shōchikubainoun

Rare spelling of shochikubai.

shōchūnoun

Alternative form of shochu.

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 394. 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.