Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- paradoxes
- parser
- parsing
- pats
- patterson's
- peacekeeping
- pendulous
- penetrates
- pessimistic
- phonetics
- pitts
- pizzeria
- predominance
- prelates
- propellants
- prophesied
- propitious
- protestations
- punts
- qantas
- recessed
- reconciles
- reflexive
- respondents
- rifts
- robeson
- rojas
- rooks
- sagan
- sailboat
- salter
- salvadoran
- sandoval
- sardine
- scalded
- scam
- schenectady
- schooners
- scour
- secures
- sedimentation
- seditious
- seely
- seinfeld
- selectivity
- selves
- seminaries
- sentries
- serrano
- setter
- severance
- sexist
- shakespearean
- sidelines
- sift
- signer
- simplification
- slanted
- slapping
- slapstick
- slugger
- smoothness
- snatches
- sneering
- snort
- snowflakes
- snowstorm
- socioeconomic
- solaris
- solicit
- soothingly
- sooty
- sorrel
- soweto
- sparky
- spasmodic
- spaulding
- spearheaded
- specks
- spiritually
- spits
- spooner
- spore
- sport's
- sporty
- sprawled
- squalid
- stabilizing
- staid
- stallings
- steadiness
- stepney
- stiffer
- stipend
- stoic
- storyteller
- straighten
- stranger's
- streamers
- streamline