English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 509 of 1086

smackdownnoun

A physical or emotional confrontation; a battle, a fight; also, a bitter rivalry.

smacked cucumbernoun

A Sichuan dish of cucumber prepared with soy, rice vinegar, etc.

smackeenoun

One who is smacked.

smackernoun

One who smacks or spanks.

smackeroonoun

Synonym of smacker (a kiss).

smackeroonnoun

A type of cookie.

smackerooniesnoun

Synonym of smackers: Units of currency, or kisses.

smackheadnoun

A person who regularly uses heroin.

smackingnoun

A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked.

smackinglyadv

With a smacking sound or motion.

smacklessadj

Lacking smack (all senses)

smacksmannoun

A man who sails a fishing-smack.

smackyadj

Characteristic of a smack.

smailnoun

Conventional postal mail; snail mail.

smakeverb

Synonym of smack (“to taste, lick”).

Smale's paradoxname

The non-intuitive fact that it is possible to turn a sphere inside out in a three-dimensional space with possible self-intersections but without creating any crease.

Smalininkainame

A city in Tauragė, Lithuania.

smalladj

Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

small alenoun

Ale with little malt and unhopped.

small armnoun

A firearm designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.

small armsnoun

Firearms designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.

small ballnoun

A baseball strategy that relies on baserunning, singles, and hitting for average rather than hitting home runs.

small beernoun

Beer with a low alcoholic content, usually between 0.5% and 2.8%.

small bikkiesnoun

Not much money.

small blockadj

having or characterised by a relatively small and lighter engine block

Small Business Saturdayname

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, promoted as a day for shopping at local small businesses

small capitalsnoun

Synonym of small caps.

small capsnoun

Capital letters shown in the same form but in small size (typically of the same size as lower-case letters).

small changenoun

Coins of little value kept in one's pocket or bag, ready for small purchases.

small coalnoun

Charcoal.

small craftnoun

Alternative form of smallcraft.

small endnoun

The end of a connecting rod in a internal combustion engine that is connected to a piston.

small fatnoun

A slightly to moderately overweight person, generally reckoned as a 16-18 in US women's sizes.

small finalnoun

The secondary final to determine rankings of competitors from the semifinals that did not make the big final.

Small Flowery Miaoname

A Hmongic language spoken in China.

small fortunenoun

A large amount of money, especially one paid for something.

small frynoun

One or more small or immature fish.

small gamenoun

Small animals and birds that are hunted and killed, either by hunters or predators.

small hatnoun

A Jewish person, particularly one with a noticeable influence in the media or politics.

small holdingnoun

Alternative form of smallholding.

small hoursnoun

The very early morning, just after midnight, when most people are asleep.

small ifnoun

A likely condition.

small intestinenoun

The upper part of the intestine, between the stomach and the large intestine, divided into the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum.

small language modelnoun

A type of neural network specializing in language but of a smaller scale, typically including millions of parameters, instead of billions to trillions.

Small Münsterländernoun

A dog breed that is a relatively smaller dog breed compared to its relative, the Large Münsterländer canine, especially in having shorter legs and a bit longer bodies.

small of the backnoun

The relatively narrow, lumbar region of the back.

Small Party of Good Boysname

The Socialist Party of Great Britain.

small platenoun

A dish in a restaurant that is prepared and served as soon as possible, rather than being served as a specific course of a meal.

Small Point-Adam's Cove-Blackhead-Broad Covename

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

small potatoesnoun

One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

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 509. 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.