Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- disruptive
- disseminated
- dizziness
- dolores
- drunkenness
- dumps
- dunstan
- ellipse
- encircling
- engrossed
- enhancements
- ennis
- exacerbates
- exclaims
- feces
- fisk
- forester
- ginsberg
- greenhouses
- harpsichord
- harvests
- holistic
- homelessness
- house's
- humanistic
- impersonal
- impulsively
- inconspicuous
- indivisible
- industrialized
- inherits
- inlets
- intrinsically
- irresistibly
- islamabad
- judicious
- lacy
- lansdowne
- larks
- lax
- leprosy
- lesotho
- lessen
- lightness
- lister
- lobbyist
- loosed
- lux
- masterful
- matheson
- mavericks
- maxwell's
- mesozoic
- metamorphosis
- mike's
- mints
- miscarriage
- nitrous
- orson
- outermost
- passers
- peerless
- pepsi
- perceives
- petticoats
- pointless
- polaris
- postmodern
- predominates
- prescribe
- priestley
- professorships
- protestors
- recklessly
- restructured
- risking
- ritz
- romulus
- sages
- salamanca
- sarcastically
- saxe
- scandalous
- scents
- scraped
- screeched
- scuttled
- scythe
- seaward
- secretions
- seduced
- selina
- sensibly
- sequentially
- serrated
- sharpness
- sidekick
- siegfried
- signalled
- signatory