Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- bookstores
- breaths
- brimstone
- caress
- cascading
- caspar
- chaps
- chaste
- cheques
- cid
- cloudless
- clovis
- communicates
- composites
- conscientiously
- consensual
- consignment
- constipation
- contraceptives
- copyrights
- correlates
- cramps
- crossbow
- curtiss
- davis'
- defeatist
- depressive
- despises
- disband
- disclosing
- dislodge
- dissection
- distemper
- distrusted
- drexel
- dryness
- entrants
- festival's
- fingerprints
- fittest
- forcible
- fosters
- fundamentalist
- garrisoned
- gilchrist
- glossary
- gradients
- grasshoppers
- hairstyle
- hansom
- hart's
- hearsay
- housewives
- hypoxia
- imprints
- incapacitated
- incensed
- informatics
- insensitive
- instructing
- insurmountable
- jacobson
- jeff's
- jocelyn
- lightest
- logistic
- lonsdale
- luce
- maddox
- masons
- memberships
- mendelssohn
- mennonites
- menstruation
- minas
- mucus
- music's
- mustered
- nascent
- o'shaughnessy
- obscenity
- obstructed
- officers'
- overseers
- panelists
- parachutes
- parkinson
- participatory
- passageway
- pellets
- persecutions
- pianists
- postdoctoral
- pregnancies
- prentice
- reconsider
- recycle
- rehearse
- rescinded
- retrospectively