English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 497 of 1086

simple past and past participle of slip.

A spendthrift.

Alternative form of slip-up.

A type of pottery identified by its primary decorating process where slip is placed onto the dry surface by dipping, painting or splashing.

A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched.

A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Сліпий (Slipyj).

To cut, slit or slash.

slitnoun

A narrow cut or opening; a slot.

A lamp whose light exits through a narrow slit.

Fine mud; silt; slake.

To slit; tear or rip up.

A surname from Dutch.

To move about smoothly and from side to side.

One who slithers.

The act or action of one who slithers.

slitherlinknoun

A grid-based puzzle which involves connecting dots so they form one big loop.

Characterised or marked by slithering

That slithers; that moves like a snake.

lithe and slimy or slithery.

Lacking a slit.

A small slit.

Resembling a slit.

A device that is attached to an optical device in order to remove all light except for that from a particular direction.

A terrestrial snail of the eastern US, of genus Stenotrema.

plural of slit

Any of various gastropods having a slit in the shell, particularly those of Pleurotomaria.

Able to be slit.

Having a slit or slits.

A person who or thing that slits.

Cut into strips with square ends.

The state or condition of being slitty.

The act by which something is slit.

Slitting Millname

A village in Rugeley parish, Cannock Chase district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0217).

Slitlike.

The width of a slit.

By means of, or in the manner of, a slit.

To cut; split; separate.

A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.

A video program targetted at a niche market.

slivercasternoun

A business that distributes slivercasts.

slivercastingnoun

The delivery of video programming targeted at specialized niche audiences.

simple past and past participle of sliver

One who cuts material into slivers.

Resembling or characteristic of a sliver.

Sliver-like.

Resembling or full of slivers.

Slivileștiname

A commune of Gorj County, Romania.

present participle and gerund of slive

A surname from Polish.

A surname.

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 497. 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.

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