English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 448 of 1086

Sister Minoressnoun

Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.

sister of Evenoun

An archetypical woman, sharing the same human nature as all other women.

sister republicnoun

A European republic established by the forces of the First French Republic (or with French assistance) during the French Revolutionary Wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Sister Souljah momentnoun

A politician's public repudiation of extremism perceived to be allied or associated with them or their political party.

sister-germannoun

A sister born of the same parents

sister-in-lawnoun

A female relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage:

sister-out-lawnoun

The sister of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.

sister-wifenoun

A woman who is simultaneously sister and wife to her spouse.

sistercestnoun

Incestuous relationships between sisters.

sisterdomnoun

sisterhood; the quality of being a sister

sisterfucknoun

A sisterfucker.

sisterfuckernoun

An extremely undesirable person.

sisterfuckingadj

motherfucking

sistergirlnoun

Sister, girlfriend (as a familiar term of address between women).

sisterhoodnoun

The state, or kinship of being sisters.

sisteringadj

Contiguous.

sisterjinoun

sister (as a respectful term of address)

sisterkinnoun

Fond term of address for one's sister.

sisterkinsnoun

Fond term of address for one's sister.

sisterlessadj

Without a sister.

sisterlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a sister.

sisterlinessnoun

The property of being sisterly.

sisterlocksnoun

Small, thin dreadlocks that are woven into the hair using a special tool.

sisterlyadj

Of or characteristic of sisters.

sisternnoun

Alternative form of sistren.

sistersnoun

plural of sister

sisters before mistersproverb

A woman should prioritize her female friends over her boyfriend or husband.

sistershipnoun

The role or position of sister.

sistersonnoun

The son of one's sister; sororal nephew

Sistiname

A surname from Italian.

Sistineadj

Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus.

Sistonname

A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6875).

sistrennoun

plural of sister

sistrumnoun

An ancient Egyptian musical instrument, to be shaken, consisting of a metal frame holding percussive metal beads.

sisunoun

Strength of will in the face of adversity; grit; perseverance; determination; regarded as an integral part of Finnish culture.

sisunatovirnoun

A drug that is an inhibitor of respiratory syncytial virus replication.

sisymbriumnoun

Any plant of the genus Sisymbrium.

Sisypheanadj

Incessant or incessantly recurring, but futile.

Sisyphean labournoun

A task that is both laborious and futile.

Sisyphismnoun

Infinite labor that produces nothing.

Sisyphusname

Son of Aeolus and Enarete, and king of Ephyra, as tragic figure doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades.

Sisyphus coolingnoun

The use of specially selected laser light, hitting atoms from various angles to both cool and trap them in a potential well, effectively rolling the atoms down a hill of potential energy until they have lost their kinetic energy.

sitverb

To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.

sit aroundverb

To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.

sit backverb

To recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.

sit bonenoun

Either of the two ischial tuberosities.

sit dead-redverb

For a batter to look for a four-seam fastball.

sit downverb

To assume a sitting position from a standing position.

sit forverb

To take care of children in the absence of their parents; to work as a babysitter for someone.

sit in forverb

To substitute; to take somebody's place.

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 448. 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.