English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 549 of 1086

A soapmaker.

A factory making soap

Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus

Soap in the form of dried flakes, formerly used for washing clothes.

A soap opera.

comparative form of soapy: more soapy

To convert (a fat or oil) into soap; to saponify.

In a soapy way.

The state or quality of being soapy.

A kind of Japanese brothel, ostensibly for bathing.

Without soap.

Without soap.

soaplessnessnoun

The state or condition of being soapless; lack of soap; hence, uncleanliness.

Resembling or characteristic of soap.

A lock of hair brushed apart from the rest.

A manufacturer of soap.

The business or process of producing soap

A man who makes or sells soap.

A dealer in soap.

The drupe of Sapindus plants, containing saponins, which are a natural surfactant.

Synonym of soapstone.

Any of several plants whose roots were formerly used as a substitute for soap.

A star of a soap opera.

A concentrated solution of salts of fatty acids obtained in the refining of edible oils.

A soft rock, rich in talc, also containing serpentine and either magnetite, dolomite or calcite.

A person who scrubs with soapstone.

soapsuds

The plant Yucca elata, which has a substance in its roots and trunk rich in saponins.

soapumentarynoun

A reality show presenting people's lives in a sensationalistic manner across a number of episodes.

Any of several species of flowering plant in the genus Yucca, especially Yucca elata.

Dodonaea viscosa, a flowering plant in the soapberry family.

A person who manufactures soap.

A place where soap is manufactured.

Any perennial herb of the genus Saponaria.

Literal senses:

soarverb

To fly high with little effort, like a bird.

Suitable for soaring.

That achieves rapid or impressive progress; runaway, roaring.

A surname.

Obsolete form of sore (“A young hawk”).

simple past and past participle of soar

One who soars.

A surname from Portuguese.

second-person singular simple present indicative of soar

third-person singular simple present indicative of soar

assurgent, ascending

In a soaring manner.

A comune of Veneto, Italy.

Soaynoun

A primitive breed of domestic sheep descended from feral sheep on the island of Soay, Scotland.

SOBnoun

Initialism of son of a bitch.

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 549. 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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