English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 474 of 1086

A seating area for VIPs in a stadium.

A walkway connecting buildings at a significant height above ground level.

A camera mounted or flying in the sky, taking aerial pictures or video footage.

A porter at an airport.

Belonging to the Digambara school of Jainism.

A backcloth depicting the sky.

A vehicle that flies; an aircraft.

A helicopter that is used for hauling large loads.

A bicycle capable of levitation.

Alternative form of sky daddy: a god; God.

Any of a series of measurements of atmospheric opacity taken using a telescope that dips from a high to a low elevation

An instance of skydiving.

Someone who skydives.

A sphere or hemisphere with a texture on its inner face, used to simulate the sky or similar backdrop around a three-dimensional playfield.

A fire-resistant aviation hydraulic fluid.

Skyename

Ellipsis of Isle of Skye, a large island in Scotland.

Skye terriernoun

A terrier of a long, low, hardy breed.

simple past and past participle of sky

Resembling the sky.

superlative form of skyey: most skyey

skyfnoun

A cigarette.

Flying in an aircraft.

A skyscraper used for skyfarming.

The use of skyscrapers to grow crops.

segment, especially of an orange

Synonym of rod (“a rod-shaped optical phenomenon”).

Any of the South American shrubs of genus Duranta, having lilac flowers and yellow berries.

As much as a sky will hold.

A stargazer.

stargazing

The illumination of the sky above populated areas, mostly by street lighting.

A skydiver, especially (approbative) a thoroughly experienced one.

A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.

Like the sky

To steal or commandeer (hijack) an airplane, usually by threat of violence to the passengers and/or crew members.

A person who commits skyjacking.

A female given name originating as a coinage.

An outer space laboratory.

The sky.

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.

One who frolics or plays tricks.

present participle and gerund of skylark

A male given name transferred from the surname.

Without a sky.

skylessnessnoun

Absence of a sky.

cable car

A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.

Furnished with one or more skylights

Resembling the sky or some aspect of it.

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 474. 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.