English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 4 of 1086
A member of a group (mentioned in the Qur'an) that is entitled to Muslim religious toleration, along with Jews and Christians; they are usually identified with the Mandaeans or the Elkesaites.
A trigonal-trapezohedral white mineral containing hydrogen, iron, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
A polio vaccine that is taken by mouth, and contains the three serotypes of polio in a weakened live state.
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, carbon, oxygen, sodium, titanium, and zirconium.
An autosomal-recessive congenital disorder affecting the integumentary system, with brittle hair, mild mental retardation, and nail dysplasia.
One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states. Parish seat: Many.
A river that flows through eastern Texas and western Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico.
A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
An island of Nova Scotia, Canada. A small island and sand bar of Canada in the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in its jurisdiction.
A dark-coloured marine fish of species Anoplopoma fimbria, of North American Pacific waters.
A coastal settlement in Fréhel commune, Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany, France.
Any of the leading Jewish rabbis who completed the revision of the Babylonian Talmud in the 6th century C.E.
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 4. 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.