English Words: S

6,566 words · Page 42 of 132

sheeshintj

An expression of disbelief or exasperation.

sheetnoun

A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.

sheetedadj

Covered by a sheet, as of cloth or paper.

sheetingnoun

Fabric used to make sheets (bedding).

Sheetrocknoun

Drywall; plasterboard; a building material comprising a layer of gypsum plaster sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.

sheetsnoun

plural of sheet

Sheetzname

A surname.

Sheffname

A surname.

Sheffieldname

A city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.

Shehuname

A surname from Albanian.

sheiknoun

The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.

Sheikhnoun

The title of a sheik.

sheilanoun

A woman.

Shekname

A surname from Cantonese.

shekelnoun

A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.

Shelaghname

A female given name from Irish, variant of Sheila.

Shelburnename

A surname.

Shelbyname

A surname from Old English.

Shelbyvillename

A city, the county seat of Shelby County, Illinois, United States.

Sheldonname

A habitational surname from Old English from the placename.

sheldrakenoun

An Old World duck of the genus Tadorna (shelducks).

shelfnoun

A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects.

Shelianame

A female given name, variant of Sheila.

shellnoun

A hard external covering of an animal.

shellacnoun

A processed secretion of the lac insect, Coccus lacca; used in polishes, varnishes etc.

shelledverb

simple past and past participle of shell

Shelleyname

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a Romantic poet.

shellfishnoun

A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.

shellienoun

A small or miniature shell.

shellingverb

present participle and gerund of shell

shellsnoun

plural of shell

shellyadj

Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures

shelternoun

Somewhere one can find protection.

shelteredadj

Protected, as from wind or weather.

shelteringnoun

A shelter; a structure beneath which one shelters.

Sheltonname

A surname.

shelveverb

To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.

shelvesnoun

plural of shelf

shelvingadj

Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright).

Shemname

The oldest son of Noah, brother to Ham and Japheth.

Shemaname

The central declaration of faith of Judaism, recited at least twice daily by religious Jews.

shemalenoun

A male-to-female transsexual or transgender person; a trans woman.

shemalesnoun

plural of shemale

Shenname

A surname.

Shenandoahname

A neighbourhood of Miami, Florida, United States.

shenanigansnoun

Mischievous play, especially by children.

shengnoun

A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).

Shentonname

A hamlet in Sutton Cheney parish, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK3800).

Shenyangname

A subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Liaoning, in northeastern China.

Shenzhenname

A major subprovincial city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.

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 42. 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.