Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- septimus
- serling
- shacks
- shostakovich
- shuster
- sienna
- simmering
- simulates
- siphon
- sitter
- sketchbook
- skewer
- skinheads
- skippers
- skyway
- slayton
- sleeveless
- slovaks
- slovenes
- slyly
- smalley
- smid
- sneers
- so's
- soapy
- solicitation
- solicitous
- solon
- solvable
- sophronia
- souza
- spaceport
- spendthrift
- spilling
- spirit's
- spitz
- sprinklers
- sprinting
- spurgeon
- sputtering
- squalls
- squeamish
- stakeholder
- stalinist
- standardize
- stannard
- startlingly
- stateside
- statisticians
- statuettes
- steepest
- stein's
- steinbach
- stemming
- stepper
- stickney
- stinson
- stockholder
- stockyards
- stomping
- stopper
- storehouses
- strapping
- strasberg
- stratigraphic
- stratosphere
- streep
- stringy
- strollers
- structuring
- suave
- subcontractors
- subduing
- suburbia
- succumbing
- suffield
- superbly
- superfund
- supremes
- surmount
- surpluses
- swaggering
- swartz
- sweeteners
- sweltering
- swerved
- swimsuits
- swish
- swooned
- swooped
- symantec
- sympathizers
- sympathizing
- syncope
- tanis
- teletext
- telstra
- temperaments
- tetanus
- thaddeus