English Words: S
6,566 words · Page 72 of 132
A familiar name for a person or thing; a nickname (sometimes assumed by the person, but often given by others) that is descriptive.
A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.
The skill, tendency or property of being sociable or social, of interacting well with others.
Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
The process of learning how to live in a way acceptable to one's own society, said especially about children.
To interact with others, especially personally, informally and off the clock rather than formally and officially.
A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
A social science that studies society, human social interaction, patterns of social relationships, and the interactions of culture. Through both theory and applied research, it engages subject matters across a range of microanalysis, mesoanalysis, and macroanalysis.
Any of various concave objects (or portions of larger objects) that envelop a counterpart object.
A small salmon with red flesh, Oncorhynchus nerka, found in the coastal waters of the northern Pacific.
A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, known after a Greek philosopher.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
The stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
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 72. 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.