Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- dismissing
- diversify
- divested
- drowsiness
- dustin
- eastenders
- elsie's
- eraser
- exploiting
- facets
- feldspar
- fiancee
- frisco
- genoese
- gravesite
- headstrong
- heretics
- hilltops
- homesickness
- horus
- hoskins
- hyacinthia
- hysterically
- ibis
- icarus
- industry's
- inexorable
- infects
- instigated
- insurgent
- isobel
- isolating
- judson
- jurists
- kate's
- kayaks
- kindest
- knicks
- lancers
- lewis'
- licensee
- ligaments
- liszt
- lucie
- marcello
- maris
- mathias
- menaced
- mimics
- minstrels
- misnomer
- mouthpiece
- nonsensical
- nostalgic
- nuncio
- observances
- obstetrics
- obtuse
- occipital
- offsets
- oscillations
- ousted
- oxidizing
- pallas
- paradoxical
- passively
- pedersen
- periscope
- philosophically
- photosynthesis
- plexus
- prancing
- preparedness
- profuse
- purvis
- quarterbacks
- quebec's
- quilts
- redistribution
- refinements
- roosters
- rosette
- roxanne
- sai
- saigon
- saucy
- sava
- schist
- scornful
- screenwriting
- seamless
- senegalese
- senora
- septic
- shameless
- shipments
- silicate
- sitka
- smyth
- soldiers'