English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 521 of 1086
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoking, hot: so hot as to be emitting smoke, perhaps about to catch fire.
A men's jacket designed to be worn while smoking tobacco, typically made of soft fabric with a tie belt.
A cigarette break from work or military duty; a brief cessation of work to have a smoke, or (more generally) to take a small rest, snack etc.
Eyes with a shadowy gradient or dark rings around them, created by the application of black or dark grey eyeshadow or eyeliner.
An orthorhombic mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, calcium, cobalt, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nickel, and oxygen.
Of or pertaining to Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish poet and author best known for picaresque novels.
The series of physiological changes where juvenile salmonid fish adapt from living in fresh water to living in seawater.
The emotional and psychological state when Sunday begins to lose its restful, weekend quality and transitions to the stress and responsibilites associated with Monday.
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 521. 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.