Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- inseparable
- inspirational
- islets
- johnstone
- lakeside
- locust
- midsummer
- minister's
- novice
- oates
- optimist
- outputs
- persists
- perspiration
- recite
- reese
- reliefs
- renounced
- righteousness
- romanticism
- roscoe
- saxons
- schoolhouse
- sedative
- seine
- selects
- seminar
- showcased
- sidewalks
- slated
- slovenian
- smet
- sneaked
- sonar
- spectra
- speechless
- splashes
- stabilized
- stiffness
- strayed
- subgroups
- submissions
- substantive
- sur
- swahili
- swallows
- system's
- theorists
- truss
- undisclosed
- airstrip
- allowances
- antagonists
- bluffs
- bracelets
- campsite
- ceded
- coax
- deliverance
- diets
- dinsmore
- dissenting
- distinguishable
- dobson
- excerpts
- facades
- filaments
- frivolous
- fruitless
- goddesses
- hammersmith
- henson
- hodgson
- husk
- incessantly
- insectivorous
- installing
- intersect
- landscaping
- lexical
- longstanding
- loyalist
- massif
- obesity
- offenses
- olson
- ostrich
- oxides
- parasite
- passports
- personification
- philip's
- philips
- pope's
- pretext
- primates
- professorship
- ramos
- recesses
- resorted