English Words: S

6,566 words · Page 40 of 132

An emirate of the United Arab Emirates.

Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.

A surname from Irish.

Resembling or characteristic of a shark.

A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Charlene.

A surname from Hindi.

A plain in Israel.

Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.

Obsolete spelling of sharp.

To make sharp.

Having a sharp point or edge.

A device for making things sharp.

The act by which something is sharpened.

comparative form of sharp: more sharp

An alert person.

A surname.

In a sharp manner, in various senses.

the cutting ability of an edge; keenness.

plural of sharp

sharpshooternoun

A person trained to shoot precisely with a rifle; a marksman.

A surname from French.

Alternative spelling of 'sheart.

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.

A district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

An extinct Native American language, formerly spoken from northern California into southwestern Oregon.

Someone who teaches the shastras.

shatverb

simple past and past participle of shit

A surname.

To violently break something into pieces.

simple past and past participle of shatter

The act of something that shatters; the shattered material.

A surname.

Shaughnessyname

A surname from Irish.

A surname.

A male given name from Irish.

A female given name from Irish, a modern feminine of Shaun (“Sean”).

To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.

Having had a shave.

Having been shaved.

One who shaves.

plural of shave

A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material.

plural of shaving; those particles or pieces left after or created by shaving.

shawnoun

A thicket; a small wood or grove.

A Middle Eastern sandwich-like wrap of shaved lamb, goat, chicken, turkey, beef, or a mixture of these.

A surname from Old English.

A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.

Alternative form of Shaun, a unisex given name.

A female given name, variant of Shauna.

A member of a Native American people (tribe) from Ohio.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 6,566 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 132 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.