Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- chirps
- christiana
- cinders
- cinque
- circuitous
- circumspection
- citi
- citric
- commodious
- compatriots
- compensations
- conciliation
- condensing
- connoisseur
- conspirator
- constrains
- coos
- coots
- cornerstones
- corvallis
- counseled
- coxon
- craft's
- crass
- creases
- crossbones
- cupcakes
- cutbacks
- dacosta
- dampness
- dass
- deconstruction
- defensible
- deflects
- delicatessen
- dependents
- discolored
- discoverable
- discriminating
- discursive
- disobeying
- disparaged
- dispensers
- displease
- disseminate
- dissonant
- drakes
- dualistic
- dulcimer
- eastland
- efface
- effortless
- eggleston
- elapse
- elsevier
- emanates
- embarks
- emmaus
- encyclopedias
- endorsing
- enslave
- enslavement
- ernest's
- escarpments
- est
- estate's
- event's
- excision
- exclusions
- excrement
- exhumed
- exothermic
- expanses
- expansionist
- expend
- explosively
- expulsions
- exterminate
- exterminator
- extravagantly
- extruded
- facedown
- facsimiles
- festus
- fieldhouse
- financiers
- firestorm
- firsthand
- flint's
- fordyce
- forsythe
- frantz
- friendliest
- fussing
- fust
- godspeed
- gooseberries
- graciousness
- greenspan
- greenstone