English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 433 of 1086
A traditional red or orange cosmetic powder from India, usually worn by Hindu women along the parting of the hair as a sign of marriage.
In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
A kind of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation involving the d'Alembert operator and the sine of the unknown function.
A position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.
The Chinese people or a Chinese person, (particularly) with reference to the historical southern Chinese known to the Greeks and Romans as the Sinae.
Synonym of Chinese or Chinese-like, of, related to, or similar to Chinese people, things, or culture.
To hold a different opinion or appreciation (about something); to possess a new, changed, or regenerated mindset, usually for the better.
To sing some music while someone else is singing or playing the same piece of music or while it is being broadcast or performed
To make the same or similar statements, especially to express the same opinions in public as a result of a prior agreement.
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 433. 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.