English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 424 of 1086
A very small passerine bird, of species Zosterops lateralis, native to Australia, New Zealand, and nearby Pacific islands, having a ring of silvery feathers around the eye.
A small North American freshwater cyprinoid fish (Notropis whipplei, now Cyprinella whipplei).
A member of a 19th-century political movement in the United States that advocated for silver continuing to be a monetary standard along with gold.
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Spindasis, having silver coloured stripes on the underwings.
A hamlet between Cleghorn and Ravenstruther, South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9145).
A traditional technique for drawing by dragging a silvern rod or wire across a surface, often prepared with gesso or primer.
Any of several small fish, mostly in families Atherinidae and Atherinopsidae, both in order Atheriniformes, that are characterized by bright, silvery scales.
Of or relating to Michael Silverstein (born 1945), theoretician of semiotics and linguistic anthropology.
Any member of the genus Argyroxiphium of flowering plants native to Hawaii, with long, narrow leaves sometimes covered in silvery hairs.
An industrial district, south of West Ham in the borough of Newham, Greater London, on the north bank of the Thames (OS grid ref TQ4180).
Any of several species of low-growing flowering plants, the leaves of which are silvery underneath, some now assigned to the genus Argentina, most previously assigned to genus Potentilla.
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 424. 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.