Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- nudist
- nurse's
- oberst
- obsolescent
- obstetric
- ocelot
- ogress
- olmstead
- orchestrate
- organics
- orifices
- ossification
- ossified
- ostracism
- otsuka
- oust
- overstep
- oxbridge
- palacio
- pastrana
- patricks
- paucity
- peasants'
- periscopes
- perversely
- pessimists
- pettiness
- phonics
- phosphorescence
- phosphors
- piecing
- pigskin
- pistil
- plagioclase
- platonists
- point's
- pokes
- polk's
- polytheistic
- postnatal
- poulson
- poultice
- powis
- prankster
- pratt's
- preakness
- precis
- preeminence
- prescient
- presidents'
- presnell
- press's
- presser
- processional
- producer's
- promissory
- propagandists
- proscribed
- prosecutor's
- prospers
- prostaglandin
- psychodynamic
- psychogenic
- pyroxene
- quesnel
- quiescent
- quixotic
- race's
- radiologists
- rainstorm
- rais
- rambunctious
- ramesses
- ramsden
- ramus
- rancorous
- rat's
- rawness
- reassemble
- rebus
- receivable
- rediscover
- reenactments
- refocused
- reich's
- reimburse
- reimbursed
- reinstall
- remembrances
- report's
- reps
- resellers
- resentments
- resents
- resettle
- respirator
- responder
- restatement
- restrains
- restyled