English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 51 of 1086
A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE901392).
A city that allows undocumented immigrants to live and work without being arrested and deported by local authorities.
A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom.
A pale yellow diamond of 55.23 carats (11.046 grams), probably of Indian origin, and owned by a number of important figures in European history.
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
An eruption of water through a bed of sand due, for instance, to seismic activity, or to differences in water pressure on two sides of a levee which causes water to penetrate beneath the levee.
Any of various small flatfish of the genus Citharichthys native to the Pacific coast of the Americas.
Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida, having a flat, disk-shaped body with the mouth in a mid-ventral position, and living in sand, on or near the surface.
A pile of sand or earth at the end of a siding or bay platform, intended to stop trains that overrun or pass through trap points set for a siding.
A large, semipermanent mound of windblown sand, held together by specialized plants, common along seashores and in deserts.
Any of various species of slim fish, resembling eels, especially of the family Ammodytidae.
Any of various places in English-speaking countries, mostly named for a local geologic feature, a hill of sand.
An arterial road in western Silicon Valley, California, running through Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Woodside, notable for its concentration of venture capital firms' offices.
A type of jack from which sand can be released gradually in small quantities when lowering something into position.
A small palm, Livistona humilis, of the northern Northern Territory, that typically grows in sandy ground.
An instrument for measuring the passage of time by the passage of sand through a narrow opening.
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 51. 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.