Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- aunt's
- avarice
- ax
- baselines
- bastion
- beseech
- buddhists
- bypassed
- cancers
- cassandra
- cassidy
- castillo
- cemented
- center's
- centrist
- chunks
- cisco
- citations
- contagious
- disgraceful
- dismayed
- distal
- dorsey
- eclipsed
- enhances
- entertainments
- exercising
- extermination
- fergus
- furnaces
- glockenspiel
- illicit
- industrialist
- insights
- intestinal
- jesus'
- melts
- metz
- moccasins
- nameless
- nested
- nevis
- obstinacy
- openness
- overtakes
- oxytocin
- parsonage
- percentages
- pops
- potts
- pranks
- precede
- precursors
- profess
- redundancy
- registrar
- resists
- respectability
- restart
- rhys
- rusk
- sacraments
- safeguard
- saloons
- sardinia
- sauces
- screwed
- scrolls
- serfs
- seventies
- signor
- simplify
- singled
- spank
- spar
- spins
- spires
- stabilize
- stapleton
- stiffened
- stills
- subdivide
- subscribed
- subsidence
- swain
- swap
- sympathetically
- textures
- theorist
- torso
- transcript
- turnips
- vestibule
- wayside
- wheelbase
- aristocrat
- assessing
- assimilation
- boston's
- celtics