Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- armstrong's
- ascends
- asses
- blanks
- bookseller
- bouncing
- brandeis
- briefcase
- broadest
- candlestick
- carcinoma
- chesterton
- chocolates
- christoph
- citywide
- clearest
- clicks
- coates
- colossus
- compost
- confucius
- contraceptive
- contrivances
- croats
- crusades
- culprits
- cyclops
- davis's
- decently
- disengaged
- dishonesty
- dislocation
- disorderly
- dispensed
- disrupting
- drusilla
- electorates
- emptiness
- entomologist
- epoxy
- essen
- excesses
- excitation
- expatriates
- exposures
- exterminated
- extinguish
- facet
- falsehoods
- fantasies
- fiasco
- fireplaces
- francesca
- gestation
- gracie
- grievously
- headdress
- hendricks
- hindustan
- homologous
- hopelessness
- hucks
- hysteria
- impressively
- incompetence
- infestation
- inflexible
- intensively
- interceptions
- internships
- intersected
- intestines
- iridescent
- isomorphism
- jansen
- jason's
- jefferson's
- jervis
- keith's
- kiosks
- larynx
- lesley
- lifeboats
- lomax
- macy's
- maestro
- milestones
- misled
- mistaking
- modus
- narcotics
- numbness
- oskar
- overcast
- panelist
- pastimes
- permissible
- pessimism
- petroglyphs
- phipps