English Words: S
6,566 words · Page 7 of 132
A city, the capital of the state of Salzburg, western Austria, famed for its baroque architecture and importance in musical history.
A society; a congregation; a worshipping assembly, or church, especially of the Brahmo Samaj.
Former name of Sebastia: a city in the West Bank, Palestine; the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel.
A native, or inhabitant of Samaria; especially one practising certain ethnoreligious traditions indigenous to that region.
A city in Iraq, on the east bank of the Tigris. In medieval times, it was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
A black person, especially one who is accommodating or servile towards whites; an Uncle Tom.
An Italian liqueur made from elderberries and flavoured with licorice, traditionally served with 3 coffee beans that represent health, wealth and fortune (or past, present and future).
A member of an ethnic group of semi-nomadic pastoralists of north central Kenya, related to but distinct from the Maasai.
Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
A holiday, falling on the night of 31 October to 1 November, celebrated by the ancient Celts and by modern neo-pagans as the beginning of winter and the new year, and a time during which the spirits of the dead could return to the earth.
A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania. Official name: Independent State of Samoa. Capital and largest city: Apia. Formerly Western Samoa, and, before that, German Samoa. It is distinct from American Samoa.
A South Asian snack consisting of a deep-fried triangular turnover filled with vegetables (especially potatoes) or meat.
A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.
An Israelite judge in the Old Testament who performed feats of strength against the Philistines but was betrayed by Delilah his mistress.
An English and Ashkenazic Jewish surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Samuel.
An Ancient Greek letter representing /s/ (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ), originally used in some dialects instead of sigma.
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 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.