English Words: S
6,566 words · Page 8 of 132
An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.
The (usually gradual or uncompleted) process by which a Christian believer is made holy through the action of the Holy Spirit.
A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom.
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
Any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum, native or long naturalized in India, Australia, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands.
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7560).
A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.
A sculpture made of sand and resembling a miniature castle; typically, but not always, made for fun by a child on a beach.
A town, civil parish, and military academy in Bracknell Forest borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8361).
A coastal suburb of Sutton on Sea, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF5280).
A town and civil parish with a town council on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5984). , from Old English sand and hamm, meaning 'the sandy enclosure or river-meadow'.
Strong paper coated with (traditionally) sand or (today) manufactured aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, or other abrasive material, used for smoothing and polishing.
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 8. 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.