English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 483 of 1086
A low, open-legged casual squatting position in which the haunches rest on the calves and the heels are planted.
The custom of honoring a family patron saint, celebrated chiefly by the Serbs, but also by some Macedonians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians and Gorani.
A greeting and farewell indicating support for Ukraine, now in reference to the Russian invasion of 2022.
A non-Slavic person who is overly infatuated with Slavic (especially Russian or Soviet) culture.
A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
A lighthearted fundraising event where people volunteer to be bid upon in an auction, and act as servants to the winning bidders for a short period afterwards.
A person who specializes in destroying the wills of unruly slaves, especially in the context of the antebellum American South.
A name or surname given to a person held in slavery, or passed down to their descendants.
A river flowing north between Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Canada, emptying into Great Slave Lake.
A person who is particularly concerned that their clothing and physical appearance conforms to the current, accepted style.
A type of ant, a brood parasite that captures the brood of other ant species to increase the worker force of its own colony.
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 483. 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.