English Words: S

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sans-culottismnoun

Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.

sansadnoun

A parliament, an assembly.

sansalvamidenoun

Any of a family of cytotoxic cyclic peptides isolated from Fusarium fungi

Sanscriptname

Eggcorn of Sanskrit.

Sanscritnoun

Dated form of Sanskrit.

Sanscritistnoun

Alternative spelling of Sanskritist.

sanseinoun

A grandchild of a Japanese immigrant to the Americas.

Sanseitoname

A Japanese ultraconservative, right-wing populist political party.

sanserifadj

Alternative spelling of sans serif.

sansevierianoun

Any of the genus Sansevieria of flowering plants native to Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia.

Sanshaname

A prefecture-level city of Hainan, China (claimed areas encompass areas administered or claimed by Brunei, China (PRC), Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan (ROC), and Vietnam).

sanshinnoun

A three-stringed instrument of Okinawan origin, the precursor to the shamisen.

sanshonoun

Any of the three special prizes awarded at the end of a basho.

sanshoolnoun

A pungent compound derived from the Sichuan pepper and related plants.

Sanshounoun

A Chinese martial art combining elements of kickboxing and wrestling.

Sanshuiname

A district of Foshan, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.

Sansiname

An Indo-Aryan language spoke in Rajasthan, India.

Sansianame

Alternative form of Sanxia.

sanskaranoun

The imprints left on the mind by past experiences (often in past lives) that then condition future responses and behavior

sanskariadj

cultured; well-mannered and knowledgeable

sanskaricadj

Relating to sanskara.

Sanskritnoun

A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.

Sanskritiname

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

Sanskriticadj

Sanskrit, relating to Sanskrit.

Sanskritisationnoun

Alternative spelling of Sanskritization.

Sanskritiseverb

Alternative spelling of Sanskritize.

Sanskritismnoun

A word or phrase borrowed from Sanskrit for modern usage in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, especially in various Indo-Aryan languages.

Sanskritistnoun

A person who studies Sanskrit.

Sanskritizationnoun

The introduction of Sanskrit vocabulary into another language or dialect.

Sanskritizeverb

To render a non-Sanskrit text, word, etc., in a form characteristic of Sanskrit morphology or phonology.

Sanskritocentricadj

Laying focus on Sanskrit (e.g. in reconstructing Proto-Indo-European).

Sansomname

A surname.

Sansonename

A surname from Italian.

Sanssouciname

A palace in Potsdam.

sansukenoun

A male bathhouse worker who assisted the bathers.

Santname

A surname.

Sant Matname

A spiritual movement that originated on the Indian subcontinent during the 13th century CE.

Santaname

Ellipsis of Santa Claus.

Santa Ananame

Places in the United States:

Santa Ana windnoun

A foehn occurring during certain weather conditions in Southern California coastal areas.

Santa Barbaraname

Any of several cities.

Santa Catarinaname

A state of the South Region, Brazil. Capital: Florianópolis.

Santa Catarina Masahuatname

A town in Sonsonate department, El Salvador.

Santa Claraname

A city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.

Santa Claritaname

A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Santa Clausname

A figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.

Santa Claus-masname

Alternative form of Santa Clausmas.

Santa Clausename

Alternative form of Santa Claus.

Santa Clausmasname

Christmas as a celebration of Santa Claus.

Santa Cruzname

Places in Argentina:

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 61. 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.