Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- yanks
- yasser
- yasuhiko
- yeasts
- youse
- zeiss
- abacus
- abducts
- abstaining
- acceptability
- acetylcholine
- addison's
- addressable
- adulterous
- aggressor
- airstrips
- alamitos
- alamosa
- alberts
- albus
- ambidextrous
- anachronistic
- analgesics
- angiogenesis
- animist
- ansel
- anselm
- anticipates
- arce
- art's
- artemus
- aspens
- aspirant
- assembly's
- assemblymen
- asters
- astin
- audience's
- auster
- awestruck
- ayscue
- balthasar
- barest
- bask
- basques
- bassi
- basso
- bastian
- bates'
- befits
- bellicose
- beneficence
- berenson
- bernstein's
- bigness
- biochemist
- bishopsgate
- bismarck's
- blackouts
- blesses
- blunts
- bodhisattvas
- bosman
- bounces
- bracewell
- bradstreet
- bright's
- brits
- brooks's
- brusque
- businesslike
- bussed
- buttressed
- caissons
- callis
- candace
- cantaloupes
- capistrano
- carlsen
- carsten
- casings
- cassavetes
- cede
- cellophane
- censoring
- centralism
- cern
- cervenka
- chalcedony
- chartreuse
- chasse
- chastain
- chauncy
- chef's
- chelyabinsk
- chiapas
- chimps
- chordates
- christa
- christo