English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 446 of 1086
A vining plant of Sumatra, whose leaves may be chewed with betel nuts or used medicinally to shrink the vagina after childbirth.
A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.
Of or relating to Douglas Sirk (1897–1987), German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s.
A kind of unplaited matting formed by laying the fine cylindrical culms from the upper part of the grass Tripidium bengalense side by side, and binding them in single or double layers. It may be laid under the thatch of a house, used to cover carts and palanquins, to make table-mats, etc.
A cut of beef from the lower part of the back, where the last ribs are (called rump in UK English).
A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.
An immunosuppressive drug C₅₁H₇₉NO₁₃ that is a macrocyclic lactone obtained from a soil bacterium Streptomyces hygroscopicus and is taken orally especially to prevent rejection of transplanted organs.
A term of address to an inferior male or more commonly a child. A modern-day equivalent would be "little man".
A modern Greek folk dance, a mixture of the slow and fast versions of the hasapiko dance.
The substituted benzamide 2-[(2-hydroxynaphthalen-1-ylmethylene)amino]-N-(1-phenethyl)benzamide, that is biochemically active
Any of several enzymes that act as regulatory factors that mediate the life-extending effects of a low-calorie diet.
Any of the battles in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad personally did not participate but to which he sent Sahabis.
A Central American plant, Agave sisalana, cultivated for its sword-shaped leaves that yield fibers used for rope.
The suppression of the freedom of the press in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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 446. 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.