English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 5 of 1086
A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (or something, a nation, etc) or preventing them from being successful, through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
A person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of their enemy.
The inner of two buckets used in the production of ice cream; the bucket which contained the ice cream and sat inside the larger bucket of ice which froze the ice cream.
A disk containing barium platino-cyanide that undergoes a color change when exposed to X-rays.
A dosimeter that measures the quantity of X-rays via the barium platino-cyanide method.
The usually ceremonial technique of opening a bottle, typically of champagne, by slicing off the bottle's neck with a sabre.
A light sword with a curved blade, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
A flamboyant display of military power as an implied threat that it might be used.
A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the swordbelt.
A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.
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 5. 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.