English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 53 of 1086
A person honoured at a Jewish brit milah by holding the baby boy in his lap as the mohel performs the circumcision.
A small wading bird, of species Calidris alba, that breeds in the Arctic and winters on sandy shores and estuaries around the world.
Of or pertaining to E. P. Sanders (1937–2022), American New Testament scholar and a principal proponent of the "New Perspective on Paul".
A plant of the genus Sandersonia, with yellow or orange flowers, Sandersonia aurantiaca.
A suburban area in the borough of Croydon, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3361).
Any of genus Gonorynchus (also called beaked sandfishes), long, thin ray-finned fishes (family Gonorychidae)
Any insect of the species of flying, biting, blood-sucking two-winged flies encountered in sandy areas.
Any of various small flies of the genera Lutzomyia and Phlebotomus whose females suck the blood of vertebrates and thus spread leishmaniasis.
A village and civil parish (served by Queen Thorne Parish Council (Group)) in north-west Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6220).
A concept in the management of protected landscapes in the United Kingdom, where the need for conservation is balanced with access to the public.
A suburban coastal village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2035).
An instrument for measuring the passage of time by the passage of sand through a narrow opening.
Any of several species of birds of the family Pteroclidae in the order Pterocliformes.
Any of a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries, such as the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words.
A crane native to North America and parts of Siberia (Antigone canadensis, syn. Grus canadensis).
A flowering plant of species Asclepias humistrata, native to the southeastern United States.
A lipid storage disorder caused by an inherited deficiency in creating functional beta-hexosaminidases A and B.
A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water.
A town, civil parish, and military academy in Bracknell Forest borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8361).
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 53. 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.