5-letter words starting with s
- shula — Donald Francis ("Don") born 1930, U.S. football coach.
- shull — Clifford Glenwood, 1915–2001, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1994.
- shuln — a synagogue.
- shunt — to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
- shura — a consultative council or assembly
- shush — to order (someone or something) to be silent; hush.
- shute — Nevil (Nevil Shute Norway) 1899–1960, British novelist and aeronautical engineer.
- shwas — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- shyer — bashful; retiring.
- shyly — bashful; retiring.
- siang — Xiang
- sibiu — a city in central Romania.
- sibyl — a female given name.
- sicko — sickie (def 1).
- sicks — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- sided — being at or on one side: the side aisles of a theater.
- sider — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sidhe — a mound or hill in which fairies live.
- sidle — to move sideways or obliquely.
- sidon — a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- sidra — Gulf of, an inlet of the Mediterranean, on the N coast of Libya.
- siege — the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
- sield — provided with a ceiling
- siena — a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- siepi — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2010, Italian basso.
- sieur — sir
- sieve — an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter, for straining liquids, etc., especially one with a circular frame and fine meshes or perforations.
- siggo — significant other (def 2).
- sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- sigil — a seal or signet.
- sigla — (robotics) SIGma LAnguage. A language for industrial robots from Olivetti.
- sigma — the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet: Σ, σ, ς.
- signa — (used imperatively, in prescriptions) mark; write; label.
- signy — the daughter of Volsung and mother, by her brother, Sigmund, of Sinfjotli, with whose help she kills her husband (Siggeir) to avenge his murder of Volsung.
- sigyn — Scandinavian Mythology. wife of Loki, who held a cup over Loki after his imprisonment in order to spare him the pain of the drops of poison with which he was punished.
- siirt — a city in SE Turkey, E of Diyarbekir.
- siker — safe from danger; secure.
- sikra — sikhara.
- silas — a male given name.
- silen — a god of woodland
- siler — a utensil for straining milk
- silex — flint; silica.
- silko — Leslie Marmon [mahr-muh n] /ˈmɑr mən/ (Show IPA), born 1948, U.S. poet, novelist, and short-story writer.
- silky — of or like silk; smooth, lustrous, soft, or delicate: silky skin.
- sills — Mount, a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 14,153 feet (4314 meters).
- silly — weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
- silty — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- silva — the forest trees of a particular area.
- simak — Clifford, 1904–88, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- siman — SIMulation ANalysis