English Words: S
6,566 words · Page 60 of 132
The act of removing the skin, as for example from animals killed for meat, hides, and furs.
Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD9851).
A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.
A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
A small domed cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck.
Any of various small mammals, of most genera of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.
The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 6,566 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 132 pages, and you are currently viewing page 60. 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.