English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 444 of 1086
Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell lengthened in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; said of certain gastropods.
A strand of tissue passing longitudinally through the shell of a cephalopod, used primarily in emptying water from new chambers as the shell grows.
A monoclonal antibody under investigation as a treatment for psoriasis and in the prevention of graft-versus-host disease.
The principle of a family sharing the responsibility for a crime committed by one of its members.
A small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.
A village in the borough of Hillingdon, Greater London, England, just north of Heathrow Airport (OS grid ref TQ0777).
Any of many unsegmented marine worm-like animals, of the phylum Sipuncula, the peanut worms
A high-ranking bureaucrat, particularly one who is elitist and deliberately obscure.
A model for the evolution and maintenance of informative communication between relatives, developed to explain begging behaviour in chicks.
Used to indicate that one finds a statement to be bizarre, tangential, or inappropriate for the context in which it is made.
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 444. 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.