Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- agostino
- agribusiness
- alaska's
- amis
- anastasio
- ancillary
- antisubmarine
- apace
- appendicitis
- apricots
- aquarius
- aqueducts
- assay
- assembles
- associating
- audits
- austria's
- aztecs
- babysitter
- backpacks
- backseat
- basking
- bassoon
- besiege
- betts
- biscayne
- blueprints
- bosco
- brasserie
- bristled
- bronchitis
- burke's
- busted
- carlsbad
- casanova
- casson
- centering
- champs
- chancellor's
- chopsticks
- clarkston
- classicism
- coastlines
- compensating
- complicity
- concourses
- condescending
- condescension
- contraception
- corvettes
- costing
- crusoe
- crux
- darmstadt
- deafness
- derisive
- desalination
- deteriorates
- diagnostics
- dickerson
- disaffection
- discoverers
- disenchantment
- dispelled
- dispensation
- dispossessed
- disrespect
- disruptions
- dissociation
- dissonance
- distort
- dusted
- dysfunctional
- edicts
- elise
- embankments
- entranced
- entrust
- escalate
- ethos
- evaporates
- executioners
- faceted
- faintness
- fantastically
- farmhouses
- fascists
- fedex
- firstborn
- floodlights
- foresters
- francisco's
- frets
- fullness
- gastronomy
- geodesic
- glycine
- graced
- grannis
- gravestones