English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 91 of 1086

sawbillnoun

The red-breasted merganser.

sawbladenoun

The blade of a saw.

sawbonesnoun

A surgeon.

Sawbridgeworthname

A town and civil parish with a town council in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England, which borders on Essex (OS grid ref TL4814).

sawbucknoun

A framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse.

sawbwanoun

A Shan chieftain, any of the mostly petty tributary princes of the Shan States on the east of Burma.

sawcenoun

Obsolete spelling of sauce.

Sawchukname

A surname from Ukrainian.

sawdernoun

Archaic form of solder.

Sawdonname

A small village in Brompton parish, (served by Brompton-by-Sawdon Parish Council) in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9484).

sawdustnoun

The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.

sawdust trailnoun

The route followed by an itinerant Christian preacher in the United States.

sawdustishadj

Synonym of sawdusty.

sawdustlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of sawdust.

sawdustyadj

Resembling, or covered in, sawdust.

Sawdyname

A surname.

sawedverb

simple past and past participle of saw

sawed gourdsverb

simple past and past participle of saw gourds

sawed-offadj

Shortened by sawing.

sawernoun

One who saws; a sawyer.

sawestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of saw

sawethverb

alternative third-person singular past of see

sawfishnoun

Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.

sawflynoun

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.

Sawfordname

A surname.

sawgrassnoun

Any of several Cladium species, long sedges with saw-like sharp, serrated edges, such as Cladium californicum, Cladium jamaicense, and Cladium mariscoides

sawgrindernoun

A metalworker who produces sawblades by grinding.

Sawhname

A surname.

sawhorsenoun

A structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working.

Sawiname

A Dardic language spoke in Afghanistan and also Pakistan.

Sawickiname

A surname from Polish.

sawingnoun

The act by which something is sawn.

sawing gourdsverb

present participle and gerund of saw gourds

sawistverb

Obsolete form of sawest.

Sawkaname

A surname from Polish.

sawlettenoun

A small prehistoric flint tool that has serrated edges

sawlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a saw (cutting tool).

sawlognoun

The part of a tree stem that will be processed at a sawmill, rather than becoming pulpwood.

sawmnoun

Fasting, abstention, abstinence; the third of the five pillars of Islam.

sawmakernoun

Someone who makes saws.

sawmakingnoun

The manufacture of saws.

sawmannoun

A man who operates a saw, especially to cut timber.

sawmarknoun

A mark made on a surface by the action of a saw.

sawmillnoun

A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber, or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.

sawmillernoun

The operator of a sawmill.

sawmillingnoun

The business of a sawmill

sawnverb

past participle of saw

sawn-offadj

Of a long-barrelled firearm, having had the stock sawn off.

sawn-off shotgunnoun

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).

Sawndipname

The traditional Chinese character-derived script used to write the Zhuang language.

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.

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