English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 527 of 1086

Snailbrookname

An unincorporated community, a company town in Bastrop, Greater Austin, Texas, United States, located on the Colorado River; an Elon Musk corporate group (SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, Twitter (X), Boring Company) company town.

snailerynoun

A place where snails are bred or kept.

snailfishnoun

Any member of the Liparidae, a family of scorpaeniform marine fish.

snailflowernoun

Any of species Cochliasanthus caracalla of leguminous vines of South and Central America, whose fragrant flowers have a distinctive curled shape.

snailicidenoun

A substance that kills snails.

snailishadj

Synonym of snaillike.

snailishlyadv

In a snailish manner.

snaillessadj

Without snails.

snaillikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a snail.

snailshellnoun

The shell of a snail.

snailyadj

Resembling or characteristic of a snail.

Snaintonname

A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref SE9282).

snakenoun

Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.

snake and pygmy pienoun

steak and kidney pie

snake bridgenoun

A curved or spiral bridge over a canal designed to allow a horse towing a boat to cross the canal without detaching the towline; commonly found on British canals built during the Industrial Revolution to facilitate uninterrupted horse-drawn towing.

snake casenoun

The practice of writing identifiers using underscores to separate words.

snake doctornoun

A dragonfly.

snake eyesnoun

Two ones, after rolling two dice.

snake fearnoun

A fear of snakes.

snake fencenoun

A zigzag fence built from interlocking split logs or young trees, not secured with nails.

snake fruitnoun

A tropical fruit produced by the palm species Salacca zalacca, native to Indonesia, characterized by its reddish-brown, scale-like rind.

snake in the grassnoun

A hidden enemy.

Snake Indiannoun

A member of the Northern Paiute, Bannock or Shoshone Native Americans.

snake insertnoun

An elongated diaper insert, which may be folded over itself to increase absorbency at certain areas.

Snake Islandname

Any of several islands with the name.

snake oilnoun

A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.

snake oil salesmannoun

A swindler or grifter who sells worthless or fraudulent remedies, cures, or solutions such as snake oil, often an aggressive or showy manner.

snake outverb

To move outwards like a snake.

Snake Passname

A hill pass in the Derbyshire section of the Peak District, crossing the Pennines between Glossop and the Ladybower Reservoir at Ashopton.

snake pitnoun

A pit filled with snakes.

Snake Rivername

a river located in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States

snake tartnoun

An eel pie.

snake upverb

To switch sides by resorting to authorities, to become treacherous, to rat.

snake vinenoun

Any of a number of vines, including:

snake winenoun

An Asian alcoholic beverage produced by infusing whole snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol, and traditionally believed to have curative effects.

snake's headnoun

snake's head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris), a flowering plant in the family Liliaceae, native to Eurasia.

snake-casedadj

In snake case.

snake-eating cobranoun

A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).

snake-frightnoun

A fear of snakes; ophiophobia.

snake-grassnoun

Horsetails, including species Equisetum hyemale and Equisetum sylvaticum.

snake-phobianoun

Alternative form of snakephobia.

snake`lowbar`casenoun

Alternative form of snake case.

snakebark maplenoun

Any maple tree belonging to the section Acer sect. Macrantha, with distinctive patterned bark.

snakebellynoun

The belly of a snake.

snakeberrynoun

A bitter nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), or its fruit.

snakebirdnoun

A darter: any bird of the genus Anhinga.

snakebitadj

Bitten by a snake.

snakebitenoun

The bite of a snake.

snakebittenadj

Alternative form of snakebit.

snakeboardnoun

A form of skateboard with two connected footboards, allowing for greater freedom of movement.

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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 527. 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.

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