Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- facsimile
- farmstead
- fatuous
- finesse
- finlayson
- foxy
- fussy
- gasps
- glassware
- glimpsed
- guts
- gymnasts
- halts
- handbooks
- hapless
- harkness
- harmoniously
- hersey
- hisself
- hofstra
- hope's
- host's
- housework
- hypocrites
- idiocy
- imparts
- impediments
- impervious
- incited
- inglis
- insulating
- intercepting
- intermixed
- islip
- jacobites
- janson
- jerks
- kaleidoscope
- kinsella
- kissimmee
- kraus
- lamppost
- legacies
- lessing
- levison
- licentious
- lipscomb
- loess
- lubricants
- lunacy
- lyricism
- majestically
- malpractice
- manus
- marksmanship
- maxine
- mcmaster
- mercies
- mindset
- minibuses
- misdeeds
- misgiving
- missis
- misused
- moats
- montmorency
- motorcyclists
- mouthparts
- multiplex
- nance
- neatness
- nesbit
- newhouse
- nilsen
- nimitz
- nix
- nonstop
- obese
- ominously
- ops
- optimus
- osteoporosis
- oxnard
- pacemaker
- pancreas
- panics
- parris
- pastels
- persevering
- perversity
- pete's
- phoebus
- phosphoric
- photojournalist
- pieced
- pincers
- platelets
- presidio
- presley's
- primacy