Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- grimaces
- grissom
- grunts
- halsted
- hampson
- hancock's
- harvesters
- haus
- headset
- hearths
- hinsdale
- hobbyist
- holst
- holtzman
- hostesses
- houseboats
- householders
- houston's
- humanists
- husain
- husks
- hussey
- hustled
- huxtable
- hyannis
- hydrates
- ibsen
- impersonating
- impresses
- incestuous
- incineration
- inciting
- inconsequential
- indebtedness
- indiscriminate
- inelastic
- inextricably
- infanticide
- infrastructures
- ingenuous
- inoffensive
- insincere
- instrument's
- intellects
- intercede
- inventiveness
- inversely
- irreversibly
- ischemia
- islamists
- jakes
- jesus's
- jettisoned
- jonson
- josephson
- jumpstart
- kinston
- knacks
- lactase
- lancastrian
- lapses
- leese
- leeson
- levinson
- licensure
- lifesaver
- likenesses
- lilacs
- louis'
- luxor
- lysander
- matisse
- mccandless
- mechanics'
- metastasis
- michaelis
- microscopically
- militancy
- millsaps
- missive
- mistreated
- moccasin
- modernists
- molest
- molestation
- monsanto
- morningstar
- morpheus
- mos
- moscow's
- mossman
- motorist
- moussa
- municipally
- muskie
- nebraska's
- neurologist
- nicolson
- nordstrom
- nyquist