English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 439 of 1086
A member of a First Nations people descended from indigenous peoples who lived primarily in what is now the West Kootenay region of British Columbia and the adjacent regions of eastern Washington in the United States.
A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.
A weighted, partially submerged enclosure suspended from a floating platform, used as a blind by waterfowl hunters.
A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
A theorem stating that every square matrix with positive entries can be written in a certain standard form.
Synonym of Xinjiang: An Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest.
An unpleasant feeling in the abdomen caused by hunger or, especially, apprehension or uneasiness.
A gourd of species Luffa acutangula, whose fruits are eaten when half-ripe and when mature can be dried out to form a loofah.
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 439. 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.