Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- triumphs
- tulips
- understory
- vassar
- voicing
- acquiesced
- aegis
- aeronautics
- airships
- alistair
- anastasia
- apoptosis
- arista
- ascendancy
- astro
- asymptomatic
- asymptotic
- audacious
- braces
- bypasses
- capes
- capsized
- carcasses
- carrasco
- centrifugal
- chatsworth
- circumspect
- cisterns
- citizens'
- clancy
- conducive
- consoled
- conspicuously
- consular
- consultations
- convalescence
- costumed
- countenances
- creeps
- crucible
- curiosities
- deceiving
- disadvantaged
- disassembled
- discernment
- disillusionment
- dismantle
- disparity
- dissected
- dissident
- distasteful
- doorstep
- dressmaker
- eisner
- estrada
- eucharist
- exponents
- expressionism
- extradition
- faithfulness
- feasted
- fewest
- forcefully
- frameworks
- fredericksburg
- grist
- griswold
- grossly
- hamas
- headstone
- herbicides
- hindrance
- hospice
- hoss
- imperialist
- incest
- inconsistencies
- inducing
- initiates
- inserting
- insider
- instantaneously
- insurgency
- interacts
- invests
- isa
- jester
- johansson
- joyce's
- jukes
- justine
- kristin
- lasalle
- lewis's
- lucinda
- macpherson
- masterly
- meanest
- medics
- mis