English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 397 of 1086

Siameseadj

Of or relating to Siam; Thai.

Siamese bala sharknoun

Any of species Balantiocheilos ambusticauda of possibly extinct cyprinid fish of Thailand.

Siamese twinnoun

A conjoined twin; one of two people physically joined together.

Siamese Twinsname

A galaxy pair in Virgo, Virgo Cluster.

Siamizationnoun

Conversion to Siamese views or practices.

Siamo-prefix

Pertaining to Thailand or to Thai(s).

sianadj

Bored, weary or fed-up; tired (of something).

Sianfuname

Synonym of Xi'an: the provincial capital of Shaanxi in central China.

Siang-yangname

Alternative form of Xiangyang.

Siangtanname

Dated form of Xiangtan.

siaoadj

Mad; crazy

Siaogangname

A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Siapuname

Alternative form of Xiapu.

Siargaoname

An island of Surigao del Norte, Caraga, Mindanao, Philippines, off the northeast of Mindanao, east of the Dinagat Islands

Siasconsetname

A census-designated place in the southeastern corner of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Siatistaname

A city in Greece located in the western Kozani prefecture.

sibadj

Having kinship or relationship; related by same-bloodedness; kindred.

sib-bredadj

Bred or descended from ancestors who were related.

sib-in-lawnoun

Alternative spelling of sibling-in-law.

Sibajaname

A surname from Spanish.

Sibalname

A surname.

Sibbald's rorqualnoun

The blue whale.

sibbensnoun

A contagious disease, once endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws and marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body.

sibberidgenoun

The banns of marriage, or the act of publishing thereof.

sibcestnoun

Sexual or romantic relations between siblings.

Sibenoun

A Tungusic people living mostly in Xinjiang, Jilin (bordering North Korea) and Shenyang in Liaoning, China.

sibehadv

An intensifier word, very.

Sibelianadj

Of or relating to Jean Sibelius (born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 1865–1957), Finnish composer.

Siberianame

The region of Russia in Asia, stretching from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean.

Siberianadj

Of or relating to Siberia.

Siberian cranenoun

A large white crane, Grus leucogeranus, which breeds in Arctic Russia and western Siberia.

Siberian ibexnoun

Capra sibirica, a species of ibex.

Siberian pea-treenoun

A species of legume, Caragana arborescens native to Siberia, parts of China and neighboring Mongolia and Kazakhstan.

Siberian unicornnoun

An extinct species of rhinoceros, †Elasmotherium sibiricum; it lived in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and East Asia during Late Miocene through to the Late Pleistocene.

Siberianistnoun

One who studies Siberian regions and cultures.

siberitenoun

A violet form of tourmaline sometimes used as a gemstone.

Sibertname

A surname.

Sibiname

A transliteration of the Tamil male given name சிபி (cipi).

sibilancenoun

The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.

sibilancynoun

The property or state of being sibilant.

sibilantadj

Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.

sibilant rhonchusnoun

wheezing

sibilantlyadv

With a hissing or sibilant sound.

sibilateverb

To hiss.

sibilationnoun

A hissing sound.

sibilatoryadj

hissing; sibilant

Sibilianame

A surname from Italian.

sibilousadj

Having a hissing sound; sibilant.

Sibirname

Synonym of Siberia.

Sibiridnoun

A member of the Mongoloid race according to Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, found among indigenous Siberians in North Asia.

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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 397. 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.