English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 40 of 1086
Alternative form of Salvadoran (“a person from El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent”).
Capable of being salvaged, saved or repaired. Worth rescuing and keeping rather discarding or replacing.
The dorsal vein of the little finger, bleeding from which was anciently held to be a treatment for melancholy.
A belief system that places the responsibility for the fulfillment of humanity outside itself, usually in the hands of a deity.
A hymn to the Virgin Mary, one of the Marian antiphons, also prayed as part of the rosary.
A natural phytoalexin that can be converted into a cytotoxic metabolite by certain enzymes that are overexpressed by cancer cells.
Any of several structurally-related compounds found in the Salvia divinorum plant, of which only salvinorin A is known to be active in humans.
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 40. 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.