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# English words: S

[A](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/a/) · [B](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/) · [C](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/) · [D](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/d/) · [E](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/e/) · [F](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/f/) · [G](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/g/) · [H](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/h/) · [I](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/i/) · [J](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/j/) · [K](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/k/) · [L](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/l/) · [M](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/m/) · [N](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/n/) · [O](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/o/) · [P](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/p/) · [Q](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/q/) · [R](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/r/) · **S** · [T](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/t/) · [U](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/u/) · [V](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/v/) · [W](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/w/) · [X](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/x/) · [Y](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/y/) · [Z](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/z/)

2316 words under S; 1801–1900 on this page.

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- [store](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/store/) — A store is a shop where people buy things (the usual word in American English). — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [storehouse](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/storehouse/) — A storehouse is a building where food, goods or supplies are kept. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [storeroom](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/storeroom/) — A room where things are kept until they are needed, such as supplies, equipment or food.
- [storey](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/storey/) — A storey is one floor or level of a building.
- [stork](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stork/) — A stork is a large bird with long legs, a long neck and a long straight beak, that wades in wet places and eats fish, frogs and insects. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [storm](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/storm/) — Very bad weather with strong winds and often heavy rain, snow, hail, thunder and lightning. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stormy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stormy/) — Stormy weather has strong winds, heavy rain, thunder or big waves. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [story](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/story/) — A story tells about things that happen, true or made up. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [storybook](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/storybook/) — A storybook is a book of stories for children, often with pictures.
- [storyteller](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/storyteller/) — A storyteller is a person who tells stories, often out loud to an audience.
- [stout](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stout/) — Rather fat or heavy in body (a polite word). — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stoutly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stoutly/) — Stoutly means bravely, firmly and strongly, without giving in.
- [stove](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stove/) — A piece of kitchen equipment for cooking, with hot rings or burners on top and often an oven.
- [stow](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stow/) — To stow is to pack things away neatly in a safe place, often on a ship or in a bag.
- [stowaway](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stowaway/) — A stowaway is a person who hides on a ship, plane, train or lorry to travel without paying or without being allowed.
- [strabismus](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strabismus/) — Strabismus is the medical name for a squint: when a person's two eyes do not point in the same direction at the same time, so one eye may…
- [straddle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straddle/) — To straddle is to stand or sit with one leg on each side of something.
- [straggler](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straggler/) — A straggler is a person or animal that falls behind the others on a march, walk or journey. — Jewish tradition
- [straight](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straight/) — Straight means not bent or curved; going in one direction. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [straighten](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straighten/) — To make something straight, or to become straight.
- [straightener](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straightener/) — A straightener is a thing that makes something straight.
- [straightforward](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straightforward/) — Straightforward means easy to understand or do, with no hidden difficulties: a straightforward question. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [straightway](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straightway/) — Straightway means at once, without any delay; it is the same as «straight away». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strain](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strain/) — To strain is to try very hard or push your body or mind to its limit. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strait](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strait/) — A strait is a narrow passage of sea between two pieces of land that joins two larger seas. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [straiten](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straiten/) — To straiten is to make someone poorer or to limit what they have. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [straitly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straitly/) — Strictly, firmly, or solemnly, so that something must be done.
- [strand](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strand/) — A strand is a single thin thread, hair or wire, or one of several twisted together.
- [stranded](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stranded/) — If you are stranded, you are stuck in a place and cannot leave, for example because your car broke down or there are no trains.
- [strange](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strange/) — Strange means unusual or surprising in a way that is hard to explain: a strange noise. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strangely](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strangely/) — In an unusual or surprising way.
- [strangeness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strangeness/) — Strangeness is the quality of being odd, unusual or unlike what is normal.
- [stranger](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stranger/) — A person you do not know. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strangle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strangle/) — To strangle means to squeeze someone's neck so hard that they cannot breathe; it can kill. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strangler](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strangler/) — A strangler is a person who kills or hurts someone by squeezing their throat so they cannot breathe; it is a word from crime news and…
- [strangulation](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strangulation/) — Killing or hurting someone by squeezing their neck so they cannot breathe.
- [strap](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strap/) — A strap is a strip of leather, cloth or plastic used to fasten, carry or hold something.
- [strapping](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strapping/) — Strapping means big, strong and healthy-looking, usually of a tall young person.
- [stratagem](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stratagem/) — A clever plan or trick to get what you want or to fool an enemy. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strategic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strategic/) — Strategic means carefully planned to reach a goal.
- [strategy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strategy/) — A strategy is a plan for reaching a goal, especially a clever plan made carefully ahead.
- [stratosphere](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stratosphere/) — The stratosphere is the layer of air above the lowest layer of the atmosphere, roughly between ten and fifty kilometres above the ground.
- [stratum](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stratum/) — A stratum is one layer of rock or soil lying on top of another.
- [stratus](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stratus/) — Stratus is a type of low, flat, grey cloud that covers the sky like a blanket.
- [straw](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straw/) — Straw is the dry yellow stalks of plants like wheat, used for animal beds or to make hats and baskets. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strawberry](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strawberry/) — A strawberry is a small red sweet fruit with tiny seeds on its outside and green leaves on top.
- [strawman](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strawman/) — A strawman is an unfair trick in an argument: you change the other person's idea into a weaker or sillier version and then attack that…
- [stray](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stray/) — A stray animal is a pet like a dog or cat that is lost or has no home. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [straying](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straying/) — Wandering off the right way, or the act of going astray. — Jewish tradition
- [streak](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/streak/) — A streak is a long, thin line or mark of a different colour, like a streak of paint or a streak of lightning. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [streaky](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/streaky/) — Streaky means having streaks: long thin lines or marks of a different colour, often uneven: streaky windows, streaky hair dye.
- [stream](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stream/) — A stream is a small, narrow river. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [streamer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/streamer/) — A streamer is a long, narrow strip of coloured paper or ribbon used to decorate for parties and celebrations.
- [streamline](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/streamline/) — To streamline something is to give it a smooth, slim shape so it moves easily through air or water.
- [streamlining](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/streamlining/) — making something simpler and more efficient.
- [street](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/street/) — A street is a road in a town or city with houses, shops or buildings on its sides. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [streetlight](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/streetlight/) — A tall lamp on a pole beside a road that lights up the street at night.
- [strength](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strength/) — Strength is how strong someone or something is: the power of muscles to lift and push. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strengthen](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strengthen/) — To strengthen something is to make it stronger. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strenuous](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strenuous/) — Strenuous means needing a lot of effort, energy or strength: a strenuous climb.
- [strep](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strep/) — Strep is short for streptococcus, a kind of bacteria that can cause illness.
- [streptococcus](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/streptococcus/) — Streptococcus is a type of round bacteria that grow in chains.
- [stress](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stress/) — Stress is a feeling of worry and pressure when you have too much to do or something is hard.
- [stressed](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stressed/) — Stressed means feeling worried, tense and under pressure, like before a big test.
- [stressful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stressful/) — Stressful describes something that makes you feel worried, tense or under pressure.
- [stretch](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stretch/) — To make something longer or wider by pulling it. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stretchedst](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stretchedst/) — «stretchedst» means «you stretched», a form of «stretch»: To make something longer or wider by pulling it.
- [stretching](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stretching/) — Stretching means making your body or a part of it longer by reaching out arms and legs or pulling muscles gently. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stretchy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stretchy/) — Stretchy means able to stretch, to become longer or wider when you pull it, and often to go back to its shape after.
- [strew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strew/) — To scatter things untidily over a surface. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strewth](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strewth/) — a mild exclamation of surprise, shock or annoyance, from "God's truth".
- [stricken](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stricken/) — Badly affected by something bad, such as illness, sadness or disaster: a stricken ship, a grief-stricken family. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strict](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strict/) — A strict person makes people obey rules and does not allow bad behaviour.
- [strictly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strictly/) — Strictly means in a firm way that makes sure rules are followed exactly.
- [strictness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strictness/) — Strictness is being strict: making people follow rules exactly and not allowing bad behaviour.
- [stride](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stride/) — To stride is to walk with long, quick, confident steps.
- [strife](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strife/) — Strife is angry fighting, quarrelling or struggle between people or groups. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strike](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strike/) — To strike is to hit something hard: «lightning struck the tree». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [striker](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/striker/) — In football (soccer), a striker is a player whose main job is to score goals.
- [striking](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/striking/) — Striking means hitting something hard: the ball striking the window.
- [string](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/string/) — A string is a thin cord used for tying things. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stringy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stringy/) — Stringy food is full of tough fibres like strings and is hard to chew: stringy meat, stringy celery.
- [strip](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strip/) — A strip is a long, narrow piece of something, like paper, cloth or land. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stripe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stripe/) — A stripe is a long thin line of colour on something, like on a zebra or a flag. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stripling](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stripling/) — An old word for a boy or young man who is no longer a child but not yet fully grown. — Jewish tradition
- [stripped](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stripped/) — Stripped is the past of «strip»: took off a covering or layer, such as paint, bark or sheets. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stripping](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stripping/) — Taking off a covering or layer: stripping wallpaper, stripping paint, stripping a bed.
- [stripy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stripy/) — Stripy means having stripes — long thin lines or bands of different colours.
- [strive](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strive/) — To try very hard to do or get something, over a long time: strive to do your best. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [striving](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/striving/) — Striving means trying very hard for a long time to get or reach something: «She is striving to improve». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stroke](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stroke/) — To stroke an animal or person is to move your hand gently over it, usually again and again. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stroll](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stroll/) — To walk slowly and in a relaxed way, for pleasure, not in a hurry.
- [strong](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strong/) — Having a lot of power in your body: "a strong man". — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [stronghold](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stronghold/) — A stronghold is a strong, well-defended place such as a castle or fort that is hard to attack. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strongly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strongly/) — Strongly means with a lot of strength or force. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [strontium](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strontium/) — Strontium is a soft, silvery metal, a chemical element with the symbol Sr and atomic number 38.
- [struck](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/struck/) — Hit someone or something hard. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [structural](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/structural/) — Structural means to do with the structure of something: how its parts are built, joined or organised.
- [structuralism](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/structuralism/) — An approach to a subject that looks at the basic patterns and structure that hold its parts together. — Jewish tradition
- [structure](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/structure/) — A structure is something that has been built, like a bridge, tower or building. — everyday · Jewish tradition