Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- pulsar
- punks
- pursuer
- pylos
- racetracks
- reassignment
- rebuffs
- reece
- remakes
- remoteness
- residencies
- residents'
- restroom
- restructure
- reversals
- rinks
- roadster
- ros
- ruthlessly
- salinger
- sallies
- salmonella
- samara
- samarkand
- samsung
- sar
- sarah's
- sari
- sark
- sauk
- saunter
- sawed
- sawing
- scoffed
- scrabble
- scrappy
- scribbled
- scud
- searchlights
- seceded
- seething
- selene
- senator's
- separatists
- sepsis
- sequestered
- sexism
- sinbad
- sirs
- sitar
- skirmishing
- skunks
- sleepily
- sleeved
- slocum
- slurs
- smallness
- smalltalk
- smarting
- smelters
- smirnov
- smit
- snarling
- snatching
- snowdon
- sobriquet
- softest
- solis
- sommer
- sondheim
- songbirds
- sosa
- southwick
- sowed
- soyuz
- spaceships
- spasmodically
- speculates
- spellbound
- speyer
- spliced
- splitter
- spokesmen
- spontaneity
- spooks
- sprouting
- stat
- statistician
- stellenbosch
- stench
- stenographer
- stillman
- storekeeper
- stott
- strident
- stringer
- stripper
- strutting
- sturm
- stylist