English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 524 of 1086
A method used to crack the password of a touchscreen device by analysing the oily smears left on the device's screen by the user's fingers.
To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
A book that has had some of its interior removed for the purpose of storing small items.
An alternative computer account used by a known or experienced user in order to deceptively self-present as someone naïve or less experienced.
A largely obsolete form of denial-of-service attack, involving broadcasting ICMP packets with the intended victim's IP address to a large computer network, causing the victim's computer to be overwhelmed by the response packets from the network.
The practice in fiction, such as in film and television series, of including only one woman in an otherwise male ensemble.
A portmanteau name created by blending two different names, especially one used to collectively describe a celebrity couple or fandom ship.
Any phytopathogenic fungus of the order Ustilaginales, which often cause darker colorations in their host plants.
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 524. 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.