Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- disparate
- displaces
- ecstatic
- elicited
- erickson
- evanston
- excels
- exclaiming
- exclamations
- explorations
- expo
- exposes
- fearsome
- fixes
- fluency
- folsom
- frankenstein
- glistening
- holstein
- hostels
- idleness
- imperceptible
- imperious
- ingested
- intents
- jameson
- juicy
- lanceolate
- linguistically
- lucerne
- massa
- maxima
- metrics
- mussels
- nilsson
- oblivious
- orestes
- oscillator
- outburst
- outbursts
- pakistan's
- percival
- petersen
- poet's
- possum
- powerhouse
- publicist
- purchaser
- quintessential
- resurfaced
- rhinoceros
- sabres
- salient
- schema
- schoolroom
- scorned
- scranton
- semicircular
- serialized
- servicemen
- sifted
- simmer
- slanting
- slates
- snarled
- sniffed
- snowboarder
- soar
- sojourn
- solder
- sovereigns
- speciality
- spielberg
- spleen
- splendidly
- spock
- spotty
- sprays
- steinberg
- stepchildren
- stewart's
- strides
- stumble
- subculture
- subordinated
- superstitions
- supplemental
- surpass
- sustains
- swarmed
- sylvan
- this'll
- throats
- tints
- tunis
- unexplored
- unit's
- vauxhall
- vestiges
- villainous