English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 454 of 1086
A dot analogous to a pixel, forming part of a code based on sets of six such dots, used to transmit bitmap graphics to certain printers and terminals.
A shot in which the ball passes over the boundary without touching the ground, for which the batting team is awarded six runs.
A village in Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge parish, north-east Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST9917).
The sixth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at eye level.
The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
During the American Civil War, a child who, having reached the age of 16, was discharged from a soldiers' orphan school.
An additional group, beyond an identified fifth column, of people which clandestinely undermines a larger group, such as a nation, to which it is expected to be loyal.
The Commandment that states that killing a human being is a sin; commonly recited as "You shall not murder", "You shall not kill" or "Thou shalt not kill".
The final two years of secondary education, during which students of about 16 to 18 years of age prepare for their A-level examinations or equivalent qualifications.
A player who is not a starter but comes off the bench much more often than other reserves.
Extrasensory perception; the ability to sense things by means other than the known bodily senses.
The conceptual boundary separating the creator (author, director, god or "prime mover") from both the narrative (their work) and the observers (the audience).
Collectively, young earnest micronations which have yet to establish a national identity and are highly likely to dissolve, but above the level of frivolous micronations.
Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen.
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 454. 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.