Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- surged
- swarms
- synchronization
- thorax
- thrombosis
- townhouses
- undistinguished
- uniqueness
- unjustly
- usages
- vargas
- vehemence
- vincennes
- vincent's
- accelerating
- accented
- accountancy
- activates
- affixed
- alignments
- anglicized
- apiece
- aristotle's
- artists'
- assailant
- assyria
- blest
- calcite
- castle's
- cerro
- chaucer
- cia
- circumcision
- cleverness
- columnists
- conceptually
- contextual
- convents
- conveyance
- counselors
- cursing
- customarily
- diagnose
- disguises
- dodson
- edison's
- eunice
- executes
- exhausting
- expectant
- expended
- falstaff
- fax
- fibrosis
- financier
- fixation
- formosa
- foss
- halsey
- helplessness
- hepatitis
- hillsides
- hossain
- incredulous
- ingersoll
- instrumentalist
- matthias
- mendocino
- morrissey
- morristown
- munson
- nestor
- noose
- oakes
- omits
- onyx
- palisade
- patroness
- penthouse
- pernicious
- pestilence
- philosophic
- pilasters
- pittsfield
- prophecies
- provenance
- quests
- rafts
- recessive
- rehearsed
- rensselaer
- restlessness
- restricting
- robarts
- ruinous
- saba
- sacrificial
- salamander
- sandman
- sanguine