Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- strokes
- astonishing
- compensation
- dioxide
- ghosts
- instinct
- novelist
- sequences
- signing
- staircase
- starring
- addressing
- adjusted
- describing
- sentiment
- spark
- supermarket
- attributes
- catholics
- countess
- counts
- explored
- footsteps
- forcing
- inscriptions
- ox
- preston
- richardson
- seating
- tendency
- tents
- expired
- pianist
- statues
- substances
- unanimous
- whispering
- witnessed
- abundance
- dancer
- develops
- enthusiastic
- expelled
- forestry
- illnesses
- lacks
- procession
- regrets
- slid
- spelled
- spies
- antibiotics
- investigate
- perception
- straightforward
- construct
- costumes
- encyclopedia
- halifax
- obstacles
- passages
- prevents
- seemingly
- sketches
- somerset
- spared
- synthetic
- westward
- absurd
- accepting
- compressed
- elsie
- goodness
- monsters
- replacing
- satisfactory
- swung
- lancaster
- marcus
- pronunciation
- stack
- waist
- complexity
- downstairs
- listing
- masks
- silicon
- successive
- assessment
- consulting
- elvis
- escalator
- expressions
- melissa
- memphis
- preceding
- psychologist
- slate
- ambulance
- certainty