English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 492 of 1086
To confidently and coolly send a direct message to someone by means of social media, especially with romantic or sexual intentions.
A valve in a steam engine, designed to slide back and forth to cover and uncover the openings through which steam enters the cylinder.
A section of a recreational vehicle that can be extended from the main body of the vehicle when parked to form a separate room.
A presentation of a series of photographic slides, usually with a spoken or recorded explanation.
A pricing scheme for a product or service where a price range is set and the customer is charged based on where their financial resources fall within the range.
An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars caused by sudden stopping.
To make or become slight; make or become less pronounced, less noticeable, or less obvious.
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 492. 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.