Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- enlisting
- enticed
- esophagus
- expiry
- extorted
- fascinate
- ferraris
- ferrets
- fingertips
- fiscally
- flightless
- force's
- fossilized
- fostering
- frostbite
- genghis
- glycerol
- goss
- gossiping
- greenpeace
- grosbeak
- guested
- gustavus
- hacks
- hamstring
- headfirst
- herbert's
- horsley
- horst
- hypothesized
- ignacio
- imprecise
- incendiary
- indestructible
- indisputable
- industrialists
- inefficiency
- insecurity
- insidious
- jeeps
- kawasaki
- laptops
- larissa
- lassie
- laureates
- leasing
- leominster
- listless
- lithographs
- loftus
- loosen
- lyster
- madsen
- maelstrom
- malagasy
- massimo
- mcmanus
- meiosis
- merest
- minarets
- mishaps
- mississippian
- mitzvah
- mongoose
- montessori
- morphs
- muskrats
- narcissus
- nixon's
- obstruct
- omnipotence
- pacers
- painstaking
- parenthesis
- parlance
- pascagoula
- pathologist
- persepolis
- persevered
- plebiscite
- presidium
- prosecutions
- prospectors
- proudest
- ransford
- registries
- repulse
- resemblances
- resigns
- resupply
- retraced
- ridiculously
- riotous
- roswell
- saab
- sabbatical
- sacs
- saddled
- saintly
- salina