English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 399 of 1086

siccativenoun

A drier; a catalyst used to promote drying.

Siccaweiname

Synonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.

sicceradj

Alternative spelling of sicker (“certain”).

siccimeternoun

A device for measuring evaporation.

siccitynoun

Dryness.

sicenoun

Alternative spelling of sais.

Sicelnoun

A member of an Italic tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily during the Iron Age.

Siceliotnoun

A member of the colonies of immigrant Greeks in Sicily, who gradually became assimilated with the native Siculi.

sichnoun

An administrative and military centre for the Zaporozhian and Danube Cossacks.

sichahnoun

A lesson, disquisition.

sicheritenoun

An orthorhombic-dipyramidal dark gray mineral containing antimony, arsenic, silver, sulfur, and thallium.

Sichevițaname

A commune of Caraș-Severin County, Romania.

Sichnevename

A village in Velykomykhailivka rural hromada, Synelnykove Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, founded as a khutir a. 1921.

Sichomoviname

A village in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.

Sichuanname

A province in central China. Capital: Chengdu.

Sichuaneseadj

Of, from or relating to the province of Sichuan, China.

Sicilianame

A province of the Roman Empire (consisting of the island of Sicily).

Sicilianadj

Of, from or relating to Sicily, Italy.

Sicilian codenoun

Synonym of omertà.

Sicilian necktienoun

Synonym of Colombian necktie.

Sicilian Vespersname

A rebellion on the island of Sicily, against the rule of Charles I of Anjou, that began at Easter, 1282.

siciliananoun

A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure.

Sicilianismnoun

The ensemble of customs, mentality and attitudes traditionally attributed to Sicilians.

Sicilianizationnoun

The act or process of rendering or becoming more Sicilian.

Siciliannessnoun

The quality of being Sicilian.

Sicilianoname

A surname from Italian [in turn originating as an ethnonym].

sicilicusnoun

A diacritic, resembling a 180°-rotated ‘C’ (i.e., being similar in appearance to ⟨ᵓ⟩), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in Classical Latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.

siciliennenoun

A dance, the siciliana.

Sicilyname

The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily.

sickadj

In poor health; ill.

sick and tiredadj

Bored to the point of weariness.

sick as a catadj

Very ill.

sick as a dogadj

Very ill.

sick as a parrotadj

Extremely sick; very ill.

sick at heartadj

Despairing, distressed, or anxious.

sick burnnoun

A particularly cutting insult.

sick callnoun

A daily lineup of military personnel requiring medical attention.

sick headachenoun

A migraine.

sick litnoun

Literature focusing on an ill character or characters.

sick mannoun

A weak member of a peer group, especially the weakest.

sick man of Asianame

Qing Empire / Empire of China / China

sick man of East Asianame

Qing Empire / Empire of China / China

sick man of Europename

The Ottoman Empire.

sick notenoun

A doctor's note that certifies that the patient is ill, and therefore unable to go to work, school, etc.

sick paradenoun

A lineup of ill or injured soldiers who report to a medic, and are assessed by a triage system.

sick puppynoun

A person who is sick (mentally disturbed) in a morbid or gruesome way.

sick to one's stomachadj

Nauseated, queasy or vomiting, sick.

sick to the back teethphrase

Extremely annoyed, fed up, tired (of or with something).

sick upverb

To vomit.

sick-assadj

Mentally disturbed or unsound; malevolently crazy.

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 399. 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.