Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- sarkar
- satirist
- savona
- sayer
- schleswig
- scorpio
- scotsman
- scowling
- scriptwriter
- scuffle
- secretarial
- sefton
- seifert
- selassie
- sensuality
- sentimentality
- sharpest
- sibyl
- silliest
- silos
- sinewy
- sinuses
- skim
- skydiving
- slaps
- slashing
- slav
- slouch
- smacks
- smee
- snobs
- soberly
- sobriety
- solidity
- soma
- spacewalk
- sparring
- specialities
- sperry
- spiritualism
- spouting
- spraying
- sprite
- squeaked
- staccato
- staked
- stallions
- stammer
- starbucks
- stargate
- statuette
- steinbeck
- steppes
- stinking
- stirs
- stopover
- straightening
- stringham
- stuart's
- stuffy
- subfamilies
- subordination
- subsurface
- sumo
- sump
- superlative
- surfacing
- swaps
- syd
- systematics
- thomson's
- tinsley
- toussaint
- transcends
- transpires
- turnstile
- unannounced
- uncertainties
- undersea
- unsuspecting
- usurp
- vagueness
- vestige
- viaducts
- wallsend
- waxy
- wearisome
- weiser
- wexler
- whitehouse
- whomsoever
- wilberforce
- williamson's
- williston
- winced
- worsens
- abrasive
- abuts
- acetone
- adolphus