Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- mosques
- postwar
- remorse
- restoring
- scuba
- spanning
- staggering
- stinks
- students'
- westernmost
- belarus
- biodiversity
- blots
- burgess
- cicero
- commencement
- consul
- cretaceous
- crusade
- dispose
- emancipation
- equivalence
- ernst
- everest
- excessively
- explosions
- fancies
- helmets
- implicitly
- impress
- incentive
- instructors
- madras
- malicious
- meritorious
- mists
- moths
- parasites
- predicts
- schwartz
- shortcuts
- sincerity
- slovak
- sparta
- spinal
- starved
- sticker
- stillness
- stud
- stuttgart
- suitably
- supplying
- suzanne
- syndicate
- unnoticed
- white's
- appoints
- blacksmith
- cartoonist
- carts
- ceo
- ceramics
- continuance
- cyanide
- discontent
- hanson
- households
- ins
- minus
- necks
- nicholson
- obstructing
- perceiving
- presses
- professed
- recess
- rents
- scoop
- secretariat
- silva
- skinner
- slant
- sockets
- southbound
- sperm
- stamford
- stokes
- truest
- wilkinson
- appliances
- basins
- classed
- coconuts
- contiguous
- dissent
- easton
- ensign
- ensues
- erase
- flax