English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 509 of 1086
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.
A firearm designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.
Firearms designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.
A baseball strategy that relies on baserunning, singles, and hitting for average rather than hitting home runs.
The Saturday after Thanksgiving, promoted as a day for shopping at local small businesses
Capital letters shown in the same form but in small size (typically of the same size as lower-case letters).
The end of a connecting rod in a internal combustion engine that is connected to a piston.
A slightly to moderately overweight person, generally reckoned as a 16-18 in US women's sizes.
The secondary final to determine rankings of competitors from the semifinals that did not make the big final.
A Jewish person, particularly one with a noticeable influence in the media or politics.
The upper part of the intestine, between the stomach and the large intestine, divided into the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum.
A type of neural network specializing in language but of a smaller scale, typically including millions of parameters, instead of billions to trillions.
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.
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.
A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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.