Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- statesman
- steamboat
- stepmother
- swamps
- synchronize
- terraces
- accelerated
- advocacy
- corpus
- disappointing
- floats
- grease
- motifs
- offset
- pastry
- patriots
- president's
- prosecutor
- quincy
- salute
- si
- sleepless
- soviets
- spokesman
- stalk
- storey
- abyss
- amos
- annexed
- bank's
- barbados
- concentrations
- consecrated
- deficits
- desolate
- discotheque
- dismissal
- distribute
- falsetto
- grassland
- haunts
- marius
- morse
- optics
- pearson
- psychiatrist
- samoa
- scraping
- seeming
- sensual
- society's
- stimulated
- stratford
- streamed
- assignments
- assistants
- axes
- compensated
- contrasts
- cursed
- death's
- disregard
- enforce
- gasoline
- ghostly
- hoist
- hoisted
- hospitalized
- invertebrates
- investor
- medicines
- morsel
- orbits
- packs
- planks
- prejudice
- scraps
- sticking
- suffice
- vigorously
- assembling
- assumptions
- bessie
- blossoms
- coasts
- distressed
- emphasize
- fasten
- fuselage
- illustrate
- massage
- misses
- pasadena
- prince's
- prospects
- screwing
- shafts
- skirts
- sleeps
- sol