Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- boutiques
- busses
- cebu
- chariots
- charlottesville
- cinderella
- cineplex
- clustering
- commences
- constables
- crepes
- crusader
- dempsey
- discerned
- dismisses
- disrupt
- dissipation
- dresser
- elizabeth's
- faiths
- fitz
- fitzpatrick
- gangster
- grievance
- gust
- hasan
- historiography
- horsepower
- impetuous
- impressionist
- impulsive
- incandescent
- inconceivable
- indexing
- insistence
- instructional
- intoxication
- intrusive
- kassel
- konstantin
- laborious
- locus
- mascots
- maximal
- miocene
- neglects
- nuanced
- nukes
- odysseus
- omnibus
- orchestration
- patriarchs
- peninsular
- peroxide
- persistently
- ponderous
- priestess
- psychotherapy
- replacements
- reprints
- resettled
- responsive
- sachs
- saddam
- saltwater
- sarcasm
- scolded
- skimmed
- sleepwalker
- slider
- slogans
- smitten
- sneered
- snooker
- snowflake
- sonora
- soothe
- sopping
- southport
- specialties
- spectre
- spouses
- spree
- sputtered
- squat
- squires
- staining
- stoves
- subtly
- sweating
- sylvie
- synagogues
- tbilisi
- teaspoonful
- textual
- tolstoy
- traversing
- underestimating
- unsteady
- urgency