English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 430 of 1086
To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
A Scottish and northern English patronymic surname derived from Sim, the short form of Simon.
A peninsula between the Boothia Peninsula to the west and Melville Peninsula to the east, surrounded by Pelly Bay on its west coast, Committee Bay on its east coast, and Gulf of Boothia to the north. (A peninsula located on the mainland portion of Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic.)
The observation that the association of two variables for one subset of a population may be similar to the association of those variables in another subset, but different from the association of the variables in the total population.
A trigonal-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, and tantalum.
A genre of user-created online music videos consisting of scenes from the American animated television series The Simpsons set to vaporwave music, with surreal visual distortion effects.
A medical position in which the patient lies on the left side with the right hip and knees bent and the left hip and lower extremity straight, often used for rectal and vaginal examinations.
Given a triangle ABC and a point P on its circumcircle, the three closest points to P on lines AB, AC, and BC are collinear. The line through these points is the Simson line of P.
A permutation in which, for all k, the subsequence of the smallest k elements has no three consecutive elements in decreasing order.
A humanized monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of fibrosis by binding to LOXL2 and acting as an immunomodulator.
An exhibition in which one (typically much stronger) player plays several games at the same time against different opponents.
A programming language of the ALGOL family that pioneered many object-oriented concepts such as classes and objects.
A probabilistic technique for approximating the global optimum of a given function, analogous to the metalworking process of annealing.
Something that simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour.
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 430. 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.