English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 41 of 1086

salvonoun

An exception; a reservation; an excuse.

salvornoun

One who salvages; especially, one who voluntarily assists in saving a distressed ship or its goods at sea.

Salvosnoun

The Salvation Army.

salwar kameeznoun

An outfit worn in South Asian countries comprising colourful loose trousers and a long shirt for females and plain and simple for the males.

Salwayname

A surname.

Salweenname

A 2,815-kilometre-long river flowing from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea, through China, Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand.

Salwenname

Alternative form of Salween (“Asian river”).

Salyardsname

A surname.

Salyersvillename

A city, the county seat of Magoffin County, Kentucky, United States.

Salyutnoun

Any of the spacecraft involved in the Salyut programme, the first space station programme undertaken by the Soviet Union, from 1971 to 1986.

Salzanoname

A surname from Italian.

Salzbergname

A surname from German.

Salzburgname

A city, the capital of the state of Salzburg, western Austria, famed for its baroque architecture and importance in musical history.

Salzburgernoun

A native or inhabitant of Salzburg; a Salzburgian.

Salzburgianadj

Of, from or relating to the Austrian state of Salzburg.

salzburgitenoun

An orthorhombic-pyramidal light gray mineral containing bismuth, copper, iron, lead, and sulfur.

Salzername

A surname.

Salzkammergutname

A resort area of lakes and mountains in Austria, stretching from the City of Salzburg eastwards along the Austrian Alpine Foreland and the Northern Limestone Alps to the peaks of the Dachstein Mountains.

Salzmanname

A surname.

Salzmannname

A surname from German.

Salzwedelname

A surname from German.

Samname

A diminutive of the male given names Samuel or Samson.

Sam Browne beltnoun

A wide military belt, usually leather, supported by a strap going diagonally over the right shoulder.

Sam Hillnoun

An intensifier.

Sam Scratchname

The Devil.

Sam Spadenoun

A private detective.

sama-samaadj

The same; identical.

samadhinoun

A state of transcendent union supposed to be assumed by a holy man or yogi at his death.

Samaelname

The angel of death and chief ruler of the 5th heaven.

samagonnoun

Alternative form of samogon.

Samairename

A female given name.

samajnoun

A society; a congregation; a worshipping assembly, or church, especially of the Brahmo Samaj.

samakonasananoun

A yoga position in which the legs are stretched out sideways on the floor

samalamignoun

Any of the various kinds of sweet chilled Filipino beverages, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls

samalizumabnoun

A humanized monoclonal antibody designed for oncology indications.

samannoun

A fine; a monetary penalty imposed for breaking the law.

samananoun

An ascetic, (especially) an ascetic monk who ignores the Vedas in Buddhist and Indian contexts.

Samanganname

A province of Afghanistan.

Samaniegoname

A surname.

Samantabhadraname

a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism

Samanthaname

A female given name from Hebrew.

samanunoun

A sweet, rich, brown Western and Central Asian pudding made of germinated wheat berries ground on a hand mill and boiled to the consistency of moist halva; a component of Haft Seen.

Samarname

An island of Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Philippines.

samaranoun

The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.

samaratenoun

Any oxyanion of samarium; any salt containing such an anion.

samarenoun

A long-skirted jacket once worn by women.

Samarianame

Former name of Sebastia: a city in the West Bank, Palestine; the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel.

samarianadj

Containing samarium

samariferousadj

Containing or producing samarium.

samariformadj

Resembling a samara, or winged seed vessel.

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 41. 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.