English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 422 of 1086
A five-membered heterocycle having four carbon atoms, one silicon atom and two double bonds; it is analogous to cyclopentadiene
An electromechanical device for measuring the level of the contents of large containers such as silos.
A form of oligarch whose origin is in the security service (e.g. KGB, FSB) or law enforcement areas of government.
A member of the Russian military, law enforcement, or intelligence services (the KGB or FSB), or a politician with a background in such services.
Any of a class of compound having a short repeating unit of silicon and oxygen atoms (either in a chain or a ring), typically with organic side chains
A plant, thought to be extinct, used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome in cooking and as a contraceptive.
A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0446).
Any chemical compound with the empirical chemical formula RSiO_(1.5), where R is either hydrogen or an alkyl, alkene, aryl or arylene group.
The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.
A sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser sandstone and the finer mudstone.
Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the Llandovery, Wenlock, Ludlow and Pridoli epochs from about 439 to 409 million years ago.
A European deciduous tree, Betula pendula, characterised by white peeling bark and drooping branches.
One of 56 counties in Montana, United States. County seat: Butte, with which it is a consolidated city-county.
A bullet made of silver, usually with reference to the folkloric belief that such bullets are the only weapons which can kill a werewolf, vampire, or other monster.
A fish of the species Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, native to East Asia, cultivated as a food fish.
An informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement, in employment and elsewhere, for middle-aged and elderly people.
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 422. 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.