Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- bendix
- blissful
- bonsai
- bos
- bossy
- bras
- brooks'
- bunce
- busters
- calf's
- camus
- castello
- censured
- centipede
- charlotte's
- childress
- chipmunks
- chloroplasts
- christiansen
- chutes
- cilantro
- circadian
- cirrhosis
- citizen's
- classy
- combats
- commensurate
- condense
- confiscation
- connoisseurs
- consolidating
- conspiring
- constriction
- constructor
- convalescent
- corrects
- corsican
- cosgrove
- coutts
- covenants
- crespo
- critics'
- cusp
- customer's
- cyberspace
- cypriots
- debased
- desiree
- disappearances
- discards
- disclaimer
- disclaimers
- discontinuity
- discretionary
- disenchanted
- disgruntled
- disjointed
- disloyal
- dismantling
- dispersive
- dixieland
- dormancy
- duster
- eclipses
- ecologists
- eights
- elicit
- elucidated
- empiricist
- emplacement
- encino
- encirclement
- endorser
- enforces
- engrossing
- entanglements
- epps
- esso
- exogenous
- exorcism
- expressionless
- expropriation
- exuberance
- fatherless
- feinstein
- felice
- fiance
- firehouse
- fitzgibbon
- fitzsimmons
- flashlights
- fonseca
- forbearance
- forest's
- fragoso
- frustrate
- glacis
- grasse
- greased
- greets