English Words: S

6,566 words · Page 80 of 132

Southwickname

A number of places in England:

Southworthname

A surname from Old English.

souvenirnoun

An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.

sovnoun

Pound sterling.

sovereignadj

Exercising power of rule.

sovereignsnoun

plural of sovereign

sovereigntynoun

The quality or state of being sovereign.

sovietnoun

A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.

sownoun

A female pig.

sowedverb

simple past and past participle of sow

Sowellname

A surname.

sowernoun

One who or that which sows.

Sowerbyname

A placename:

Sowetoname

An urban area on the edge of Johannesburg, South Africa, known for a violent uprising that occurred there in the 1970s.

sowingverb

present participle and gerund of sow

sownverb

past participle of sow

soxnoun

plural of sock (footwear)

soynoun

A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

soyanoun

Alternative form of soy.

soybeannoun

A legume plant (Glycine max), commonly cultivated for human and animal consumption and as a nitrogen-fixing ground cover.

Soyinkaname

A surname from Yoruba.

soylentnoun

An undesirable, lackluster, and artificial foodstuff, as a substitute for real meat.

Soyuznoun

Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.

sozintj

Synonym of sorry.

SPnoun

Initialism of starting price.

spanoun

A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.

spacenoun

Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.

spacecraftnoun

A vehicle that travels through space.

spacemannoun

An astronaut, often a male astronaut.

spaceportnoun

A site for launching spacecraft.

spacernoun

A person who works or lives in space.

spacesnoun

plural of space

spaceshipnoun

A manned vehicle that flies through space.

spacetimenoun

The four-dimensional continuum of the three spatial dimensions plus time.

spacewalknoun

Any activity by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft or space station in space.

spacialadj

Alternative spelling of spatial.

spacingverb

present participle and gerund of space

spaciousadj

Having plenty of space; roomy; capacious.

spaciousnessnoun

The state or quality of being spacious.

spadenoun

A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.

spadernoun

One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.

spadesnoun

plural of spade

Spadinaname

A placename in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

spaghettinoun

A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

Spainname

A country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula. Official name: Kingdom of Spain. Capital and largest city: Madrid.

spakeadj

Quiet; tame.

spallnoun

A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.

spamnoun

Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

spammernoun

Someone who sends spam.

spammingnoun

The act of sending unwanted electronic mail.

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 80. 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.