English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 86 of 1086
A barbecue, where the primary food item is a sausage served on a piece of bread, and especially one held for fundraising purposes.
Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of Ferdinand de Saussure or his works.
A tough, compact mineral aggregate, of a white, greenish, or greyish colour. It is an aggregate of albite, zoisite, prehnite and other aluminium silicates, and is produced by the alteration of feldspar.
A jump similar to a grand jeté, differing in that the front leg extends through a développé instead of a grand battement.
A piece of cookware that has straight sides and a large surface area, both of which are ideal for tasks like searing meat or reducing a pan sauce.
A bow stroke played rapidly in the middle of the bow, one stroke per note, so that the bow bounces very slightly off the string.
A ribbon, chain, scarf, or the like, tied around the neck in such a manner that the ends cross over each other (en sautoir).
To cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks.
That has been cooked using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat.
A green-skinned variety of grape that originates from the Bordeaux region of France.
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 86. 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.