Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- consoling
- construed
- contingents
- cornwallis
- cutaneous
- cynically
- cytoplasmic
- decease
- deduce
- dentists
- despaired
- detest
- discouragement
- dishonorable
- dismissive
- disprove
- disproved
- distaste
- donates
- dreamworks
- dreyfus
- droplets
- egypt's
- encircle
- eric's
- ericsson
- ernesto
- eros
- erstwhile
- esposito
- estimable
- estrangement
- etruscans
- eugenics
- excalibur
- excellently
- exerts
- exteriors
- extricate
- fanatics
- ferrous
- fifths
- fixable
- foodstuffs
- forrester
- fourths
- fragrances
- francine
- geddes
- gemstones
- genomics
- gilbert's
- gloriously
- gratuitous
- gustaf
- hairdresser
- harps
- harshness
- hasidim
- hasse
- headmistress
- homesteads
- hotchkiss
- huguenots
- humorously
- hurwitz
- hutchison
- ignatius
- illusory
- impasse
- inconveniences
- indiscretion
- inexplicably
- inhospitable
- insatiable
- inscrutable
- insecticides
- insistent
- instigation
- interceptor
- interdisciplinary
- knesset
- lassen
- leninist
- lenox
- magnates
- marianas
- marques
- misunderstand
- mozart's
- musketeer
- neilson
- niceties
- northwesterly
- novices
- occupancy
- odorless
- onsite
- pacified
- pangloss