English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 46 of 1086

Samratname

A male given name.

Samriddhiname

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

samsanoun

A Central Asian bun stuffed with meat and sometimes with vegetables.

samsaranoun

In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.

samsaricadj

Of or pertaining to samsara.

Samsatname

A town, the capital of Samat district, Adıyaman Province, Turkey, populated by Bezikan Kurds.

Samselname

A surname.

samsengnoun

A thug; a gangster.

samshunoun

A triple-distilled variety of rice-based baijiu.

Samshuiname

Synonym of Sanshui: the Cantonese-derived name.

Samsonname

An Israelite judge in the Old Testament who performed feats of strength against the Philistines but was betrayed by Delilah his mistress.

Samson foxnoun

A red fox mutation that lacks guard hairs, thus having a wooly appearance.

Samson Optionname

A last-resort strategy employed by Israel involving massive nuclear retaliation within and outside of Israel.

Samson postnoun

A strong post resting on the keelson and supporting a beam of the deck.

Samsonianadj

Of, resembling, or characteristic of the Biblical Samson.

Samsonicadj

Of or relating to the biblical Samson.

Samsonic suicidenoun

Suicide as an act of revenge on somebody.

samsonitenoun

A black, monoclinic silver manganese antimony sulfosalt mineral.

Samsuiname

Synonym of Sanshui: the Cantonese-derived name.

Samsui chickennoun

A dish of boiled or steamed chicken wrapped in lettuce, served with garlic sauce or ginger sauce.

Samsui womannoun

A Chinese female immigrant who came to Malaya or Singapore between the 1920s and 1940s in search of construction or industrial work, mostly from the Sanshui district of modern-day Guangdong in China.

samsumnoun

Any of certain black ants in species Pachycondyla sennaarensis (syn. Brachyponera sennaarensis)

Samsunname

A province and metropolitan municipality in northern Turkey, on the Black Sea coast.

Samsungname

A South Korean conglomerate company which manufactures electronics and ships.

Samsøname

An island of Denmark, lying within the Kattegat.

samtaegeuknoun

A variant of the taegeuk, featuring a third yellow spiral, representing humanity.

Samtenlingname

A gewog of Sarpang District, Bhutan.

Samtsename

A district of Bhutan.

Samtskhename

Synonym of Meskheti.

Samtskhe Atabegatename

Alternative form of Samtskhe-Saatabago.

Samtskhe-Javakhetiname

A region of Georgia, with Akhaltsikhe as its regional capital; populated mostly by Armenians.

Samtskhe-Saatabagoname

a Georgian feudal principality in Zemo Kartli (Upper Kartli).

Samudaripenname

Synonym of Porajmos (“planned and attempted genocide of the Romani people”).

Samudioname

A surname from Spanish.

Samuelname

A male given name from Hebrew.

Samuelinaname

A female given name of rare usage.

Samuelsonname

An English and Ashkenazic Jewish surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Samuel.

Samuelsonianadj

Of or pertaining to the economist Paul Samuelson (1915–2009)

Samuelsonianismnoun

The beliefs or policies of the economist Paul Samuelson (1915–2009)

samuelsonitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, sodium, and strontium.

samurainoun

In feudal Japan, a soldier who served a daimyo.

samurainessnoun

The state or characteristic of being a samurai.

Samuskynoun

A mixed breed dog that is a cross between the Samoyed and Siberian Husky.

Samut Prakanname

A province of Thailand.

Samut Sakhonname

A province of Thailand.

Samut Songkhramname

A province of Thailand.

samveganoun

Dismay at the futility of life as normally lived; a sense of urgency to escape the cycle of samsara and achieve nirvana.

samvydavnoun

Samizdat.

samwichnoun

Pronunciation spelling of sandwich.

samydaceousadj

Of or relating to the Samydaceae.

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 46. 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.