English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 550 of 1086
A journalist, usually female, who writes mainly sentimental articles or has an advice column.
A discrete differentiation operator that computes an approximation of the gradient of the image intensity function, used in image processing and computer vision, particular for detecting edges.
A topological space of which every join-irreducible closed subset is the closure of exactly one point of the space.
To become sober; to cause to become sober (usually in terms of alcohol or drugs; sometimes figuratively).
Habitually drinking alcohol, but interested in becoming teetotal or in drinking less alcohol.
A vector space of functions equipped with a norm that is a combination of Lp-norms of the function itself as well as its derivatives up to a given order.
A triclinic-pedial brown mineral containing calcium, fluorine, iron, magnesium, manganese, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, sodium, and titanium.
A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal steel gray mineral containing bismuth and palladium.
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 550. 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.