English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 533 of 1086

A latch or catch.

Be silent; shut up.

A natural neckdown (curb extension) caused by snowfall.

One who is sly, cunning, devious.

a door latch

snednoun

A cut, a cutting; a slash, a slight wound; a lopping or pruning.

A surname.

A surname from Old English.

Sneddon's syndromenoun

A form of arteriopathy characterized by severe transient neurological symptoms, or stroke, and livedo reticularis or livedo racemosca.

A surname.

A surname.

Sniffing the saddles of women's bicycles, or seats on which they have been sitting, for sexual gratification.

sneenoun

A large knife.

To seethe; to become extremely frustrated and agitated.

A trans woman who does not pass.

A city, the county seat of Hancock County, Tennessee, United States.

The common nase, Chondrostoma nasus.

To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.

simple past and past participle of sneer

One who sneers.

second-person singular simple present indicative of sneer

third-person singular simple present indicative of sneer

Given to sneering.

In a sneery way.

The state or condition of being sneery.

Contemptful, mocking.

A surname from Dutch.

In a sneering manner.

Without a sneer.

sneerocracynoun

Openly critical and condescending people viewed collectively.

third-person singular simple present indicative of sneer

Sneering, supercilious.

To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.

sneeze on the truthverb

To sneeze just after somebody says something, superstitiously believed to verify or validate their statement.

A snuffbox.

A piece of fan fiction focused on sneezing, most often in a fetishized way.

sneezeguardnoun

A transparent panel mounted above a food counter, to prevent food from being contaminated by someone sneezing.

Without a sneeze.

Protected from sneezes.

Someone who sneezes.

A plant of the genus Helenium, especially Helenium autumnale.

The wood of a South African tree, Ptaeroxylon obliquum.

A hardy flowering plant of species Achillea ptarmica, poisonous to cattle, sheep and horses, but with various herbal applications in humans.

In a sneezy way.

The state of being sneezy.

The act of producing a sneeze.

With a sneeze or sneezes.

To sneeze continuously or multiple times.

Constant or repetitive sneezing.

Prone to sneeze with little (if any) nasal agitation.

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 533. 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.