English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 423 of 1086
A 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.
A piece in shogi that can move one step in any diagonal direction or straight forward.
The first goal scored during the first half of extra time, giving victory to the scoring side at the end of the half-time, if this rule is in effect and the scoring side is leading.
The principle that one should not treat other people in the manner in which one would not want to be treated by them.
An early type of cinema screen which had a coating of silver or another shiny metal.
A bag made of aluminium foil designed to retain body heat and provide warmth in harsh weather conditions.
Full cream milk, normally homogenised and pasteurised, having a silvery top to the bottle.
In China, a railway train assigned to take elderly retirees on touristic trips to underdeveloped areas whose economies will benefit from the spending.
Any of various shrubs of the genus Acacia having silvery foliage, especially Acacia dealbata of southeastern Australia and Tasmania.
Synonym of white lead, particularly (historical) in the form used in 19th-century Parisian paints.
Ant of species Autographa gamma of moths, having distinctive Y-shaped marks on their forewings.
A small tree with blue-grey foliage, Eucalyptus melanophloia, of Queensland and northern New South Wales.
A rare congenital growth disorder, a form of dwarfism, sometimes treatable.
Articulate and charming in speech; eloquent; also, having a pleasant-sounding voice or way of speaking.
A mature male gorilla leading a troop, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
A plant in the genus Elaeagnus, of about 50-70 species of deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees with alternate leaves, primarily native to temperate and subtropical regions of Asia.
A color variety of mink having bluish-gray fur fiber and guard hairs that are sometimes white-tipped, giving a silvery blue tone.
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 423. 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.