English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 411 of 1086
To add a fugitive colour to (a paste), to enable the printer to determine whether the figures are well-printed or not.
A trial shot in rifle, artillery shooting, or sports like football, to set the range, targeting etc.
A line between an observer or a piece of optical equipment and an object of interest; line of sight.
Attractive, pleasing to the eye; affording gratification to the sense of sight; aesthetically pleasing.
A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.
One who goes sightseeing; one who goes around to look at sights or see things of interest; a tourist.
Any of the genus Sigillaria of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation, with seal-like leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.
Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of the genus Sigillaria of extinct trees.
A mineral containing barium, iron, calcium, sodium, aluminum, phosphorus, oxygen and hydrogen, first found in Italy.
A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.
A silver coin of Achaemenid Persia worth one twentieth of a daric and weighing about 5.6 grams.
A letter or other symbol that stands for a name or word; specifically, one used in a modern literary work to refer to an early version of a text.
The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (Σ, σ), the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient.
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 411. 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.