Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- unionists
- unrestricted
- uranus
- vixen
- wastewater
- wavelengths
- westinghouse
- westphalia
- whips
- whiteness
- announcers
- astoria
- booster
- carcass
- casimir
- cedars
- celts
- centerpiece
- civility
- classmate
- coldness
- consultants
- consumes
- crevices
- despairing
- desserts
- dis
- disarmed
- distanced
- eliciting
- eliminates
- especial
- explanatory
- extravagance
- fest
- flex
- fortresses
- gestapo
- gladys
- hiss
- hudson's
- huntsville
- hydrolysis
- instrumentals
- interestingly
- intolerance
- ismail
- klaus
- lactose
- marxism
- merciful
- minsk
- mosses
- necklaces
- niece's
- opponent's
- potsdam
- precipice
- prostitute
- reciprocal
- recurrence
- resigning
- sabre
- sayings
- sci
- scientology
- scopes
- senatorial
- sentencing
- seychelles
- siam
- sightings
- smoother
- snare
- softness
- soothes
- splashing
- stabs
- stalwart
- stemmed
- stoney
- stoop
- strenuous
- strobe
- symbolized
- tacks
- transferable
- unquestionably
- unspecified
- vassals
- voiceless
- waistline
- week's
- wraps
- youngsters
- anderson's
- animosity
- approximations
- argonauts
- astor