English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 52 of 1086
A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the technology and society of the Iron Age, especially the Roman Empire.
Any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum, native or long naturalized in India, Australia, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands.
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7560).
A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
One who sandbags (misleads about their ability level in order to win bets); a hustler.
The act or process of filling and laying sandbags, such as before a storm in anticipation of flooding.
A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.
To take a sand bath; to clean one's body, especially, of parasites, by rolling in sand or dust.
To spray with fast-moving solid grains (such as sand propelled by compressed air, although softer material like sodium bicarbonate used for delicate materials may also be so referred to). The process is used for stripping dirt, rust, paint etc. from the surface of objects.
A recreational activity resembling snowboarding but performed on sand instead of snow.
A game with no linear storyline or specific goal, the player deriving amusement from a range of open-ended interactions or situations.
Any of several grasses, of the genus Cenchrus, found in the south-eastern United States, that has a spiny burr
A sculpture made of sand and resembling a miniature castle; typically, but not always, made for fun by a child on a beach.
A yellow-white construction material made from a binder (typically Portland cement), sand, and water.
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 52. 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.