English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 501 of 1086

To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

A drinking game resembling softball or kickball but with players having to drink beer from a keg when passing a base.

Very drunk.

In a sloshy manner.

The state or condition of being sloshy.

With a sloshing sound or motion.

That sloshes or splashes

slotnoun

A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.

To put something into a slot.

slot machinenoun

Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially:

The commercial rights for an airline to take off and land planes at a particular airport at a particular time.

Alternative form of sleuthhound.

A surname.

A particular position in American football, often a running back who lines up near the line of scrimmage and can function as a wide receiver.

An idle, slouching fellow; a slovenly, slipshod person.

Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.

A nocturnal bear, Melursus ursinus, native to South Asia.

To make or be slothful.

lazy; idle; tending to sloth.

In a slothful manner; lazily.

slothfulnessnoun

The state or quality of being slothful.

Resembling or characteristic of a sloth, especially in being slow and sluggish.

plural of sloth

slothful; lazy

A surname from Yiddish.

Without a slot or slots.

Resembling a slot.

A surname.

Capable of being slotted.

Having slots.

slotted spoonnoun

A large spoon with slots in it used to drain food.

Divided.

Someone or something that slots (that is, makes slots).

foul; filthy

slotting machinenoun

A reciprocating machine tool used to cut mortises and to shape openings.

A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance

A person who slouches.

plural of slouch

In a slouchy manner.

slouchinessnoun

The state or condition of being slouchy.

With a slouching posture or motion.

Given to slouching.

The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

slough of despondnoun

A dreary bog or marsh.

slough sharknoun

northern pike

Capable of being sloughed, or cast off.

An ancient breed of domesticated dog, specifically a member of the sighthound family.

sloughinessnoun

The quality of being sloughy.

Something sloughed off.

Land marked by sloughs; swampland.

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 501. 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.