English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 91 of 1086
A town and civil parish with a town council in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England, which borders on Essex (OS grid ref TL4814).
A Shan chieftain, any of the mostly petty tributary princes of the Shan States on the east of Burma.
A small village in Brompton parish, (served by Brompton-by-Sawdon Parish Council) in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9484).
Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.
Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta, within the order Hymenoptera, whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.
Any of several Cladium species, long sedges with saw-like sharp, serrated edges, such as Cladium californicum, Cladium jamaicense, and Cladium mariscoides
The part of a tree stem that will be processed at a sawmill, rather than becoming pulpwood.
A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber, or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.
A shotgun whose barrel(s) has been shortened for ease of concealment and to give a larger spread, though with more limited range (often for illegal purposes).
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 91. 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.