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# English words: S

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2316 words under S; 901–1000 on this page.

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- [singular](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/singular/) — In grammar, singular means one: «cat» is singular and «cats» is plural. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [singularly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/singularly/) — Singularly means very, unusually or especially, often in a surprising way.
- [sink](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sink/) — To go down below the top of water or another liquid: «The stone sank». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sinner](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sinner/) — A sinner is a person who has done something wrong according to a religion's rules. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sinning](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sinning/) — Sinning means doing wrong against God's rules or against other people. — Jewish tradition
- [sinuous](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sinuous/) — Curving and winding, with many bends, like a snake or a river.
- [sion](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sion/) — «-sion» is a word ending that makes nouns, as in «television», «decision», «explosion»; it often sounds like «zhun» or «shun». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sip](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sip/) — To drink slowly, taking only a small amount at a time.
- [siphon](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/siphon/) — A siphon is a bent tube that moves liquid from a higher container to a lower one, over an edge, without a pump, once the tube is full.
- [siphonophore](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/siphonophore/) — A siphonophore is a strange sea animal, related to jellyfish, that is really a colony of many tiny animal parts joined together and…
- [sipper](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sipper/) — Sipper is the Hebrew word for "he told," from the same root as number and book. — Jewish tradition
- [sir](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sir/) — A polite way to speak to a man whose name you do not know, or to a man in charge: "Can I help you, sir?".
- [sire](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sire/) — Sire was a way of speaking to a king, like «Your Majesty»: «Yes, sire.».
- [siren](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/siren/) — A device that makes a loud wailing or rising-and-falling sound to warn people, used on ambulances, fire engines and police cars, and for…
- [sis](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sis/) — Short for "sister", used when talking to or about your sister.
- [sister](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sister/) — A sister is a girl or woman who has the same parents as you. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sit](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sit/) — To sit is to rest your body on a seat or on the ground, with your weight on your bottom. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sitar](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sitar/) — A sitar is a musical instrument from India with a long wooden neck, a round body made from a gourd, and many strings, played by plucking.
- [sitcom](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sitcom/) — A sitcom is a funny TV or radio series about the same characters in everyday situations, like a family or friends at work.
- [site](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/site/) — A site is a place where something is, was, or will be, like a building site or a picnic site. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sitter](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sitter/) — A sitter is a babysitter: someone who looks after children while their parents are out.
- [sittest](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sittest/) — «sittest» means «you sit», a form of «sit»: To sit is to rest your body on a seat or on the ground, with your weight on your bottom.
- [sitteth](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sitteth/) — «sitteth» means «sits», a form of «sit»: To sit is to rest your body on a seat or on the ground, with your weight on your bottom.
- [sitting](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sitting/) — Sitting means resting your bottom on a chair, the floor or another seat, with your back up. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [situate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/situate/) — Placed or lying in a certain spot. — Jewish tradition
- [situated](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/situated/) — Situated means placed or found in a certain place: The school is situated near the river. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [situation](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/situation/) — A situation is everything that is happening at a certain time and place, and how things are. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sivan](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sivan/) — Sivan is the name of a Hebrew month, usually in late spring. — Jewish tradition
- [siwan](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/siwan/) — The name of the third month of the Hebrew calendar, usually in late spring (May or June). — Jewish tradition
- [six](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/six/) — Six is the number 6, one more than five. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sixpence](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sixpence/) — A sixpence was a small British coin worth six old pennies, used until Britain changed to decimal money and kept for a while after.
- [sixteen](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sixteen/) — Sixteen is the number 16, one more than fifteen. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sixteenth](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sixteenth/) — Sixteenth means number 16 in order. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sixth](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sixth/) — Sixth means number 6 in order, after the fifth. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sixty](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sixty/) — Sixty is the number 60, which is six tens. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [size](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/size/) — Size is how big or how small something is: the size of an elephant. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sizzle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sizzle/) — To make a hissing, spitting sound like food frying in hot fat: The sausages sizzled in the pan.
- [skate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skate/) — To skate means to glide on ice with ice skates or on the ground with roller skates or a skateboard.
- [skateboard](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skateboard/) — A skateboard is a narrow board with four small wheels, which you stand on and ride by pushing with one foot.
- [skateboarder](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skateboarder/) — A person who rides a skateboard, a short board on four small wheels, often doing tricks.
- [skater](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skater/) — A skater is a person who moves on skates: ice skates, roller skates or inline skates.
- [skedaddle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skedaddle/) — To skedaddle is to run away quickly, often because you are frightened or caught.
- [skeletal](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skeletal/) — Skeletal means to do with the skeleton, the frame of bones inside a body: the skeletal system.
- [skeleton](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skeleton/) — The frame of bones that supports and protects the body of a human or an animal.
- [sketch](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sketch/) — A quick drawing that shows the main shapes without much detail. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sketchbook](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sketchbook/) — A book of plain, often thick, paper for drawing sketches and quick pictures.
- [sketchy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sketchy/) — Not complete or detailed; giving only the main points.
- [ski](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ski/) — A ski is one of a pair of long narrow flat boards fixed to boots for sliding over snow.
- [skid](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skid/) — To skid is to slide sideways or forwards out of control, especially on ice, water or a smooth surface.
- [skier](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skier/) — A skier is a person who moves over snow on skis, for sport or for fun.
- [skilful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skilful/) — Skilful means very good at doing something because of practice and ability. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [skilfully](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skilfully/) — In a way that shows skill and good ability; cleverly and well. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [skill](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skill/) — A skill is something you can do well because you have learned and practised it. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [skillful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skillful/) — Skillful means very good at doing something with the hands or the mind, because you have practised or have a gift for it.
- [skillfully](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skillfully/) — In a way that shows skill; doing a task well, with care and talent.
- [skim](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skim/) — To skim a text is to read it quickly to get the main idea, without reading every word.
- [skimmed](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skimmed/) — Skimmed is the past of skim: read quickly, moved just over the top of something, or took the top layer off.
- [skimmer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skimmer/) — A flat spoon or ladle with holes, used to lift things off the top of a liquid, like foam from soup.
- [skimming](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skimming/) — Skimming means reading something quickly to get the main idea, without reading every word.
- [skin](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skin/) — The outer covering of a person's or animal's body. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [skinflint](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skinflint/) — A person who hates spending money and is mean with it; a miser.
- [skinful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skinful/) — A large amount of alcohol, enough to make someone drunk: «He'd had a skinful.».
- [skinned](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skinned/) — Skinned is the past of «to skin»: to take the skin off an animal or fruit.
- [skinny](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skinny/) — Skinny means very thin, sometimes too thin.
- [skint](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skint/) — Having no money at all; broke.
- [skip](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skip/) — To skip is to move along with little hops and jumps. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [skipjack](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skipjack/) — A small fish that leaps out of the water, a kind of tuna.
- [skipper](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skipper/) — The captain of a ship or boat, especially a small one.
- [skirl](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skirl/) — A loud, shrill cry or high sound, such as the sound of bagpipes; to make such a cry.
- [skirt](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skirt/) — A skirt is a piece of clothing worn by women and girls that hangs from the waist and has no separate legs. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [skittish](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skittish/) — Easily frightened, nervous and jumpy, ready to run off at any noise.
- [skittle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skittle/) — A wooden or plastic bottle-shaped piece that players try to knock down with a ball.
- [skittles](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skittles/) — A game in which you roll a ball to knock down wooden pins; like bowling.
- [skua](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skua/) — A large brown seabird of cold northern and southern seas that often chases other seabirds to make them drop or bring up their food, and…
- [skull](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skull/) — The skull is the hard bony frame of the head that protects the brain. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [skunk](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skunk/) — A small black-and-white animal of North America with a bushy tail, which sprays a very bad-smelling liquid when it is frightened.
- [sky](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sky/) — The space above the Earth where you see clouds, the Sun, the Moon and the stars. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [skydiver](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skydiver/) — A skydiver is a person who jumps out of an aeroplane high up, falls through the air, and then opens a parachute to land safely.
- [skylight](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skylight/) — A skylight is a window in a roof or ceiling that lets daylight in from above.
- [skyscraper](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skyscraper/) — A skyscraper is a very tall building with many floors, in a city.
- [skyward](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/skyward/) — Upward, towards the sky.
- [slab](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slab/) — A slab is a thick, flat piece of something hard, like stone, concrete or wood. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [slack](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slack/) — Slack means loose, not pulled tight: a slack rope. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [slacken](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slacken/) — To make something less tight, or to become less tight: slacken a rope. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [slacking](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slacking/) — Slacking means being lazy and not doing work you should be doing.
- [slag](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slag/) — Rocky waste left over when metal is taken from ore.
- [slain](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slain/) — Killed violently, especially in battle or in stories: "The dragon was slain.". — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [slam](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slam/) — To slam a door, window or lid is to shut it hard and loudly.
- [slander](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slander/) — Untrue spoken words that harm someone's good name. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [slang](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slang/) — Very informal words and phrases used in casual talk, often by a group such as young people, and not used in formal writing.
- [slangy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slangy/) — Using a lot of slang: very informal, everyday words and phrases, like «gonna», «cool» or «mate».
- [slant](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slant/) — A slant is a line or surface that slopes, not straight up or flat. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [slap](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slap/) — To hit someone or something with an open hand.
- [slapstick](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slapstick/) — A kind of comedy with funny falls, crashes, chases, custard pies and silly fights where nobody is really hurt.
- [slash](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slash/) — To cut something with a long, quick, violent stroke of a blade.
- [slat](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slat/) — A long, thin, flat strip of wood, metal or plastic, usually one of a row with gaps between, as in a fence, bed, bench or blind.
- [slate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slate/) — Slate is a hard dark grey rock that splits into thin flat sheets.
- [slaughter](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slaughter/) — To slaughter animals means to kill them for food. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [slaughterhouse](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slaughterhouse/) — A place where farm animals such as cows, pigs, sheep and chickens are killed for their meat.
- [slave](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/slave/) — A slave is a person who is owned by another person and forced to work without pay or freedom. — everyday · Jewish tradition