Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- odorous
- offstage
- opponents'
- opts
- outpaced
- overspent
- overstated
- pacifism
- paleontologists
- paris'
- parkside
- passivity
- pasternak
- pat's
- pennsauken
- pentax
- perfectionist
- perilously
- perks
- permeates
- personalization
- perspiring
- pharmacists
- pickett's
- pips
- pisani
- pittsford
- pleasants
- plessy
- polis
- pollux
- poltergeist
- polymerase
- ponderosa
- porpoises
- portentous
- postmark
- predicates
- prefaced
- preschools
- preset
- prestwich
- princeton's
- privates
- promiscuity
- pronouncement
- pronouncements
- proserpina
- psalter
- pugilist
- pulsing
- querulous
- questionnaires
- radisson
- rakes
- rawson
- realignments
- reappearance
- receptacles
- recidivism
- reformists
- religiosity
- reminisce
- repents
- replicators
- requisites
- rescuer
- resort's
- responsiveness
- restated
- restaurateur
- restive
- retz
- revivalist
- ringmaster
- rios
- riverboats
- robot's
- romanticized
- rosales
- rossini
- rossmore
- rowse
- ruts
- sacrilegious
- sadder
- safeguarding
- saha
- saks
- salah
- salamis
- saleem
- salem's
- salton
- samos
- sandor
- sandstorms
- sarcoma
- satanism
- satirizes