Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- hackensack
- hailstones
- hallmarks
- harmlessly
- harris'
- harshest
- hausa
- hereabouts
- hesiod
- hindsight
- hitchcock's
- homesteaders
- homosexuals
- hysterics
- impostors
- incipient
- indecisive
- indiscreet
- individualistic
- informants
- installer
- insubordination
- intercession
- intermediates
- interscholastic
- intravenously
- introspective
- invariance
- isaacs
- jealousies
- johansen
- jost
- justifies
- kasparov
- kessler
- krauss
- lasker
- lawlessness
- leafless
- lifesaving
- lineups
- linseed
- livesey
- lobos
- lugubrious
- lymphocytes
- madhouse
- manipulates
- mannerist
- marchioness
- maserati
- masquerade
- matsumoto
- maxi
- medalists
- ministry's
- movement's
- muskogee
- newsstands
- nicosia
- nooks
- oases
- oedipus
- opposites
- opulence
- ostensible
- outsourced
- passable
- pentecost
- philanthropists
- picts
- pliocene
- postulates
- professes
- prominences
- promiscuous
- protester
- prothorax
- purser
- quickest
- raster
- recede
- reconsidered
- republic's
- resistors
- resorting
- restricts
- reverts
- ringside
- rodrigues
- sadie
- sagas
- saki
- sandler
- sassoon
- savannas
- scans
- schubert's
- seatbelts
- secretary's