Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- sorcery
- squash
- stooped
- subliminal
- succeeds
- unix
- unjust
- alsatian
- analyst
- cancel
- cancellation
- casper
- christie
- cistern
- citrus
- consonants
- constructive
- crickets
- elsa
- excel
- fairfax
- fencing
- fundraising
- gossips
- highness
- icy
- loosened
- mesa
- plaster
- prejudices
- prestige
- questionable
- saunders
- scar
- semifinals
- sensitivity
- sermon
- snap
- splinter
- stylish
- subsidies
- sutherland
- whisky
- beatrice
- bikes
- bookcase
- boost
- cascade
- clasped
- combustion
- dukes
- exchanges
- gaps
- hiatus
- jessie
- kisses
- notices
- optimistic
- palaces
- pest
- poisonous
- posture
- scorn
- sobbed
- stump
- synonym
- treatise
- bishop's
- blasphemy
- criticize
- diligence
- disposes
- generates
- immerse
- instituted
- investigators
- irresistible
- posterior
- princesses
- psychiatric
- recruits
- shouts
- sonic
- sorted
- speedway
- starvation
- steer
- sullen
- superficial
- taps
- tortoises
- violinist
- yeast
- yolks
- adversary
- alumnus
- aristocracy
- cloths
- comparisons
- damascus