English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 59 of 1086
Any of a series of observations on a pattern in the size of xylem tracheids, increasing in size from the top of a tree to a certain height, after which they decrease again to the base of the tree. These laws generally hold true for coniferous woods.
Discrimination and oppression against people who have, or who are labelled or perceived as having, a mental illness.
Facilities for handling human waste; Structure containing toilets, seats over a cesspit, or tanks for holding excrement.
A check to make sure that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities and is not based on invalid assumptions.
A district, a prefecture, particularly (historical) a second-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.
A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
A triclinic white mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur.
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 59. 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.