Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- facilitating
- falsified
- fawcett
- fillets
- fitzwilliam
- flawless
- forsook
- fosse
- franciscans
- gibson's
- glistened
- gneiss
- grandest
- grossman
- habeas
- hamsters
- harris's
- helios
- hermits
- hertz
- hex
- hospitalization
- huston
- impious
- impresario
- incised
- incongruous
- indexes
- inexperience
- inks
- insignificance
- intelligentsia
- interprets
- invoice
- islamist
- jacobsen
- janssen
- janus
- jaundice
- juxtaposition
- keswick
- khrushchev
- laces
- laments
- lass
- layoffs
- loosening
- lopes
- lutz
- macedonians
- marissa
- mason's
- masse
- merced
- mesquite
- microprocessor
- mishap
- misunderstandings
- monsignor
- muscat
- narrowest
- netscape
- northeastward
- nothingness
- novelists
- oppress
- oscillators
- parsi
- participle
- pasteur
- peaceably
- perce
- perplexing
- phalanx
- pharmacies
- pittsburg
- pittsburgh's
- placenta
- placidly
- postcard
- predisposition
- presto
- primus
- principalities
- prosecuting
- psychosis
- pups
- racemes
- rasmussen
- rattlesnake
- reconciling
- reprehensible
- resounding
- restlessly
- resurgence
- revisionist
- rhapsody
- ricketts
- risotto
- rudeness