Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- spectroscopy
- spied
- spores
- suckers
- summarized
- sunburn
- unsatisfactory
- unsolved
- wilcox
- auspices
- austere
- blisters
- caspian
- concentrating
- conscription
- cyndi
- cypriot
- deficiencies
- depressingly
- diplomats
- divergence
- doris
- dynasties
- emirates
- espionage
- estrogen
- executioner
- expeditionary
- externally
- extracurricular
- gangsters
- harmonious
- heiress
- herbaceous
- jack's
- judas
- lazarus
- loudspeaker
- manson
- messing
- neuroscience
- penance
- perceval
- project's
- ramsay
- rascal
- receptions
- richness
- rollercoaster
- rucksack
- scaffold
- scarcity
- scoundrels
- sealing
- selwyn
- serenity
- skeletal
- slater
- snapping
- sorrowful
- spirituality
- starve
- statesmen
- stereotypes
- storylines
- streetcar
- superiors
- taxicab
- terraced
- tossing
- vaults
- wessex
- westbound
- accessory
- adolescence
- assimilated
- astronauts
- autographs
- axioms
- chancery
- christi
- clark's
- clarkson
- cloister
- desperation
- disarmament
- disruption
- domesticated
- erasmus
- excepting
- fostered
- frankness
- ghastly
- hydroxide
- installment
- jukebox
- keystone
- lice
- loveless
- luster