English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 42 of 1086
A native, or inhabitant of Samaria; especially one practising certain ethnoreligious traditions indigenous to that region.
The religion of the Samaritan people, tracing its origin to the Hebrew people of the ancient Middle East following their avoidance of the Babylonian captivity in the 6th century BCE.
A chemical element (symbol Sm) with an atomic number of 62, a moderately hard silvery metal that slowly oxidizes in air. Applications in human affairs include magnets with high performance at high temperatures, which are important in military equipment.
A city in Iraq, on the east bank of the Tigris. In medieval times, it was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
A shiny black radioactive mineral that contains a complex mixture of rare earth oxides
A cultural organization in Brazil devoted to practicing and showcasing samba, as well as organizing and performing elaborate parades during carnival.
In Brazil, a building or place where samba schools parade during the period of Carnival.
An international auxiliary language and worldlang devised by French linguist Olivier Simon, released in July 2007.
A black person, especially one who is accommodating or servile towards whites; an Uncle Tom.
A village in Chetwynd parish, Telford and Wrekin district, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7124).
An Italian liqueur made from elderberries and flavoured with licorice, traditionally served with 3 coffee beans that represent health, wealth and fortune (or past, present and future).
A member of an ethnic group of semi-nomadic pastoralists of north central Kenya, related to but distinct from the Maasai.
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 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.