English Words: S
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Any of many single-celled fungi of the genus Saccharomyces, which lack a true mycelium; especially the yeasts.
Any of several yeasts, of the genus Saccharomycopsis, associated with enteritis in some animals
A process in which parasites evolve to lose sense organs and become simpler organisms.
An acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by long-boiling sucrose with very diluted sulphuric acid.
A bladder or winglike structure found on the pollen grains of many species of conifer. The shape or number of the sacci on a pollen grain can help identify the species it came from.
Initialism of Super Audio CD, an optical disc, similar to a DVD, typically one holding a commercially-recorded music album.
Excessive sacerdotalism; focus on priests to the exclusion of other aspects of religion.
Plukenetia volubilis, a euphorbiaceous perennial plant endemic to the Amazon rainforest in Peru.
A chief of one or several Native American tribe(s), especially of the Algonquians; a sagamore.
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 7. 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.