English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 434 of 1086
An island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony and state of Malaysia (1963-1965). Official name: Republic of Singapore.
A localised variety of English found in Singapore, made up of two varieties: high (Singapore Standard English) and low (Singapore Colloquial English, Singlish).
Synonym of pompoir (“a sexual technique the woman uses her pubococcygeus (vagina) muscles to stimulate the man's penis while both partners remain still”).
A proposed model for the United Kingdom after Brexit, involving laissez-faire free trade unencumbered by regulation.
A Cantonese dish of stir-fried cooked rice vermicelli with meat, vegetables, scrambled eggs, and curry powder.
Singaporeans having birthright citizenship because they are descended from settlers in Singapore prior to independence in 1965.
A belief, attitude, lexical item, etc. peculiar to or characteristic of the people of Singapore.
An exercise where the pupil is instructed to sing back a sequence of notes previously played or sung.
A musician who both sings and composes, especially when recording or performing their own compositions.
A satirical genre of visual arts depicting monkeys imitating human behaviour, often fashionably dressed.
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 434. 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.