Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- insulin
- interstate
- johannesburg
- macedonia
- oblast
- predecessors
- registers
- savages
- semiconductor
- specialists
- sweater
- temperance
- toast
- usa
- actresses
- ascended
- ascending
- assists
- atlantis
- bracelet
- chairperson
- constructions
- cylinders
- discriminated
- dissatisfied
- distorted
- engagements
- escorted
- experimented
- forensic
- housekeeper
- instability
- lattice
- mats
- monasteries
- palestinian
- pharmaceutical
- reconnaissance
- siberia
- sine
- speedy
- spokesperson
- squid
- steele
- subsistence
- swelling
- turks
- amendments
- basilica
- cecil
- childless
- constituent
- disagreed
- distinguishes
- disturb
- explosives
- felicity
- hostages
- inconsistent
- intrinsic
- investigative
- parcel
- psychic
- reinstated
- repeats
- sampling
- scanning
- scarborough
- skateboard
- sonata
- spherical
- stockton
- untrustworthy
- apex
- arrests
- contestant
- denise
- disks
- distinctions
- else's
- entrusted
- famously
- fearless
- footnotes
- forgets
- jackets
- kicks
- metropolis
- mystic
- opacity
- pistols
- podcast
- practise
- precedence
- prospered
- safari
- safer
- saturn
- screenwriter
- soak