English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 402 of 1086
A disruptive electrical discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (such as lightning) and neighbouring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.
A gig (temporary or informal job) being done on the side; a person's non-primary job or other occupation, often distinguished by factors such as formality, legality, personal priority, and/or financial return.
A (temporary or informal) job being done on the side; a person's non-primary job or other occupation, often distinguished by factors such as formality, legality, personal priority, and/or financial return.
A shogi piece, used in chu shogi and larger variants, which has range movement to the sides and can take one step forward or back.
A person with whom someone already in a relationship carries on a physical affair (not emotional affair) without having the intention of forming a serious relationship. Not gender specific.
A yoga pose in which the body is held rigidly straight, with weight resting on the feet and one arm, where the upper body is held off the ground by the upper arm, leaving the lower portion of the arm on the ground.
A pot separated from the main pot, containing the chips bet and raised by players, up from the amount wagered by the player all-in with the fewest chips.
A small table intended to be placed beside a larger piece of furniture, such as a bed or sofa.
A type of valve in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder block beside the piston. The cylinder head is then a simple dome extending across the valves and piston.
Either of the two parallel walls in a court, perpendicular to the front wall; either of the walls on the side of the court.
Of a function, operation, or expression, producing no observable changes beyond their primary output or return value.
Any turtle of the suborder Pleurodira, characterised by protecting its head by turning it to one side rather than, as hidden-neck turtles do, withdrawing it into its shell.
The net at either side of the goal, extending from the touchline to a few yards behind it.
A woman who (among others) has the potential to become one's wife, or who is fulfilling the role of one's wife in addition to one's actual wife; a concubine
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 402. 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.