English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 493 of 1086

slightilyadv

slightly

slightinessnoun

slightness

slightingverb

present participle and gerund of slight

slightinglyadv

In a slighting manner; belittlingly, contemptuously.

slightishadj

Somewhat slight

slightlyadv

Slenderly; delicately.

slightnessnoun

The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness

slightsomeadj

Characterised or marked by slight; scornful

slightyadj

slight

Sligoname

A county of Ireland.

Sligomannoun

A man from Sligo, Ireland

Sligovillename

A village in Saint Catherine parish, Jamaica.

slikeverb

To crawl; creep; slide.

slilyadv

Alternative spelling of slyly.

slimadj

Slender; thin.

slim downverb

To reduce weight; to make or become thinner.

slim jimadj

Very thin.

slim pickingsnoun

A small amount, especially of money; paucity.

Slim Rivername

A town in the Mualim District, Perak, Malaysia.

slim-fitadj

Having a smaller, tighter cut. (of clothes)

Slimanename

A male given name.

slimdownnoun

A period of weight loss.

slimenoun

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

slime ballnoun

Alternative form of slimeball.

slime lilynoun

Any plant of the genus Albuca, mainly occurring in Africa.

slime mouldnoun

Alternative spelling of slime mold.

slime tutorialnoun

A bootleg video recording of a theatrical production, especially of a Broadway musical.

slimebagnoun

A person who is unpleasant or underhanded; a slimeball.

slimebaggerynoun

Synonym of scumbaggery.

slimeballnoun

A round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime-like substance such as mucus.

slimebucketnoun

Term of abuse.

slimefacenoun

A term of abuse.

slimeheadnoun

Any of the long-lived deep-sea fish forming the family Trachichthyidae.

slimeholenoun

A lousy, disreputable, or disgusting place.

slimelessadj

Free of slime.

slimelikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of slime.

slimernoun

A worker who guts fish.

slimewadnoun

A term of abuse.

slimewaynoun

The track of slime connecting the spindle cells of certain slime moulds, composed of extracellular matrix.

slimeyadj

Alternative spelling of slimy.

slimeynessnoun

Alternative spelling of sliminess.

slimicidenoun

Any pesticide designed to kill organisms that produce slime.

slimilyadv

In a slimy manner

sliminessnoun

The property of being slimy.

slimingnoun

The action of coating with slime, or an instance of doing this.

slimishadj

Like or resembling slime; slimy

Slimlandianame

Mexico, in which much of the economy and daily life is controlled by tycoon Carlos Slim Helú.

slimlineadj

Gracefully slim or slender.

slimlyadv

In a slim manner; slenderly.

slimmernoun

A person who is trying to become slim by dieting.

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 493. 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.