English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 407 of 1086

Sidgwickname

A surname

Sidgwickianadj

Relating to Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), English utilitarian philosopher and economist.

Sidhename

Mythical hills of Irish and Scottish folklore, home of the sidhe race; fairyland, faerie.

Sidhuname

A surname from Punjabi.

Sidhuismnoun

A characteristic one-liner spoken by the Indian cricket commentator Navjot Singh Sidhu (born 1963).

Sidi Kacemname

A city in the Rabat-Sale-Kenitra region, Morocco.

Sidibename

A surname from Fula.

sidiesnoun

sideburns

sidingnoun

A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.

sidingedadj

Having a specified kind of siding.

sidittyadj

Alternative form of saditty.

Sidlawsname

A range of hills, mostly in Angus council area, north of Dundee, Scotland.

sidleverb

To (cause something to) move sideways.

sidlernoun

One who sidles.

Sidleyname

A suburban village and ward on the northern outskirts of Bexhill, Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ7309).

sidlingadv

Alternative spelling of sideling.

sidlinglyadv

With a sidling motion.

Sidmanname

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Sidmouthname

A locality in West Tamar council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.

Sidneename

A female given name transferred from the surname.

Sidneyname

An English habitational surname.

Sidneyanadj

Of or relating to Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), English poet and scholar.

Sidonname

Former name of Saïda: a city in Lebanon; a former city-state in Phoenicia.

sidonglobophobianoun

Sensory phobia of cotton or cotton balls.

Sidonianame

A female given name.

Sidoniannoun

A native or inhabitant of Sidon.

sidorenkitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic light pink mineral containing carbon, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.

Sidotiname

A surname from Italian.

sidpietersitenoun

A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.

SIDSnoun

Acronym of sudden infant death syndrome.

sidthnoun

Depth or length, especially used of things hanging low, draping, or trailing

sidwillitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, molybdenum, and oxygen.

sieverb

To sink; fall; drop.

Siebenname

A surname from German.

siebenbeinnoun

Synonym of heptad.

Siebenbürgen Saxonnoun

A Transylvanian Saxon.

Siebenbürger Saxonnoun

A Transylvanian Saxon.

Siebertname

A surname.

Sieboldname

A surname from German.

Sieckname

A surname.

siedverb

simple past and past participle of sie

Siefkername

A surname from German.

Siegname

A surname from German.

Sieg Heilintj

The greeting Sieg Heil, used by the Nazis, and by neo-Nazis and people comparing others to Nazis today.

Siegbahn unitnoun

Synonym of x unit.

siegenoun

Military action.

siege enginenoun

A large weapon of war used during ancient and medieval times to batter fortifications, settlements, etc.; specifically, a trebuchet or other type of catapult.

siege mentalitynoun

A collective feeling of victimization and defensiveness, in which a group of people believe themselves to be constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated in the face of the negative intentions of the rest of the world.

siegecraftnoun

The science of besieging; warcraft of sieges.

siegehousenoun

An outbuilding with toilet seats: an outhouse.

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 407. 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.