English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 438 of 1086
A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.
Of or pertaining to the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka, their Indo-Aryan language, or their culture.
A historical racial classification and term used in human physical anthropology as a Mongoloid subrace commonly found throughout East Asia and is associated with Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people.
A glycosinolate glycoside found in many brassicas and related plants which is toxic in large quantities and responsible for the pungent bite of horseradish and hot mustard.
The distance that can be traveled in a day given the current terrain and conditions, used as a measurement by the native peoples of Greenland.
Of a writing system: written from right to left, such as in the Arabic or Hebrew scripts.
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 438. 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.