5-Letter Words with S: page 3

All 2,002 five-letter words with S: page 3 of 6

P

• pease7v. To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile.
• peasy10adj. Resembling or characteristic of peas.
• pedes8n. Pediatrics.
• perse7n. A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.
• pesky14adj. Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).
• pesto7n. A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region in...
• pesty10adj. Annoying or troublesome; pesky.
• phase10n. A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
• phats10n. Phat pants.
• phish13v. To engage in phishing.
• physa13n. Any of several species of freshwater snails, included in the family...
• piles7n. A large amount of.
• pilus7n. A hair.
• pinks11n. Flowers in the family Caryophyllaceae, sometimes called carnations.
• pinus7n. Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.
• pious7adj. Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
• pipes9n. A single pipe organ.
• pisco9n. A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing...
• pista7n. Pistachio.
• piste7n. A downhill trail.
• plash10n. A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle...
• plasm9n. A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular...
• plebs9n. The plebeian class of Ancient Rome or its equivalent in other ancient...
• plush10adj. Very extravagant.
• poast7v. To post on an internet site, especially with ironic or mischievous...
• poesy10n. A poem.
• poise7n. A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
• polis7n. A Greek city-state.
• polls7n. A place where votes are cast in elections.
• popsy12n. Grandfather.
• porus7n. A pore.
• posca9n. A drink in Ancient Rome and Greece, made by mixing sour wine or vinegar...
• posed8adj. Holding a certain pose.
• poser7n. A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
• poset7n. A partially ordered set.
• posey10adj. Pretentious; posturing.
• posho10adj. Posh.
• posit7n. Something that is posited; a postulate.
• posse7n. A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile...
• potsy10n. A children's game, similar to hopscotch, especially popular in New York.
• powis10n. A black curassow (Crax alector).
• prase7n. A variety of cryptocrystalline of a green colour.
• prefs10n. Preferences.
• presa7n. A symbol, such as ※ or :S:, used to indicate where a voice is to begin...
• preso7n. A presentation.
• press7n. An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
• prest7n. A loan or advance (of money).
• prise7v. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
• prism9n. An object having the shape of a geometrical prism (sense 1).
• priss7n. A prissy person.
• probs9adv. Synonym of probably.
• props9n. Respect for, or recognition of, another person; an expression of...
• prose7n. Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
• proso7n. Panicum miliaceum, a grass used as a crop.
• pross7n. A prostitute.
• prosy10adj. Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.
• psalm9n. A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship...
• pseud8n. Pseudomonas bacteria.
• pshaw13interj. Indicating contempt, disgust, irritation, impatience, or disbelief.
• psion7n. The psi-meson, a sub-atomic particle.
• psoas7n. Either of two muscles, the psoas major and psoas minor, involved in...
• pssht10interj. Synonym of pshaw.
• pssst7interj. Elongated form of psst.
• psych15n. A psychiatric hospital or other treatment facility; also, a psychiatric...
• psyop12n. An instance of psyops: a psychological operation, usually of a...
• pubes9n. The pubic region.
• pubis9n. The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the...
• pucks13n. Plenty; an abundance (of something).
• pulse7n. A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example...
• purse7n. A small bag for carrying money.
• pushy13adj. Overly assertive, bold, or determined; aggressively ambitious.
• pyxis17n. A small box.

Q

• qisas14n. Under sharia law, the principle of retaliation in kind, or retributive...
• quads15n. A four of a kind.
• quash17v. To defeat decisively, to suppress.
• quasi14adj. Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.
• quest14n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or...
• quist14n. The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
• quits14adj. On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.

R

• racks11n. Publication, distribution (of a magazine).
• rains5n. A rainy season; monsoon.
• raise5v. To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• rajas12n. One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that...
• ramus7n. A small spray or twig.
• rasam7n. A spicy South Indian soup made with tamarind juice.
• rashi8n. A zodiac sign.
• rashy11adj. Exhibiting a rash.
• rasic7adj. Relating to rasa.
• raspy10adj. Rough, raw.
• rasse5n. Viverricula indica, the small Indian civet.
• rasta5n. Rastafarian.
• rasul5n. A prophet or messenger in Islam; Muhammad, as a special messenger of...
• rates5n. Taxes, usually on property, levied by local government.
• rebus7n. An arrangement of pictures, symbols, or words representing phrases or...
• reese5n. Synonym of peanut butter cup.
• regas6v. To refill (an appliance such as an air-conditioning unit) with the...
• reins5n. The lower part of the back.
• reist5n. A proponent of reism.
• remis7n. A draw.
• reset5v. To set back to the initial state.
• resid6n. A residual solvent.
• resin5n. A viscous water-insoluble hydrocarbon exudate of certain plants, or...
• resit5v. To take an examination a second time.
• resto5n. A restaurant.
• resum7v. To perform resummation upon.
• reuse5n. The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to...
• rings6n. A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of two rings suspended...
• rinse5v. To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
• risen5adj. Having risen.
• riser5n. Someone or something which rises.
• rishi8n. A Vedic poet and seer who composed Rigvedic hymns, who alone or with...
• risky12adj. Dangerous; involving risks.
• ritsu5n. An anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and...
• roads6n. A roadstead.
• roast5v. To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering...
• rocks11n. Money.
• roose5v. To flatter or praise.
• roost5n. The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
• roots5n. Ancestry.
• ropes7n. Basic skills of a job.
• rosen5adj. Made of or consisting of roses.
• roset5n. A red colour or pigment used by painters.
• roshi8n. An elderly and revered Buddhist monk.
• rosin5n. A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its...
• rouse5v. To cause (something) to be (more) active or to move; to agitate, to...
• roust5v. To rout out of bed; to rouse.
• rubus7n. Any of the genus Rubus of flowering plants, including the raspberry and...
• rudas6adj. Bold; masculine; coarse.
• rupes7n. An escarpment on another planet or a moon.
• rushy11adj. Abounding in rushes.
• rusty8adj. Marked or corroded by rust.

S

• saala5n. Brother-in-law.
• sabal7n. Any palm of the genus Sabal of American dwarf fan palms; usually called...
• sabar7n. A traditional drum from Senegal, generally played with one hand and one...
• sabat7n. A roofing structure with the street beneath it in Mediterranean and...
• sabha10n. A public meeting, assembly, or organized group.
• sabin7n. A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A...
• sabir7n. A lingua franca.
• sable7n. A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel...
• sabot7n. A wooden shoe.
• sabre7n. A light sword with a curved blade, sharp along the front edge, part of...
• sabzi16n. Any green vegetable.
• sacra7n. Sacral artery.
• sacre7v. To consecrate.
• sadhu9n. An ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of...
• sadly9adv. In a sad manner; sorrowfully.
• sadza15n. Synonym of nshima (“maize porridge”).
• saggy10adj. Baggy or loose-fitting.
• sahib10n. A term of respect for a white European or other man of rank in colonial...
• sahih11adj. Authentic: said of a hadith that has been preserved and transmitted...
• sahwa11n. A series of political purges in the late 15th and 16th centuries...
• saiga6n. Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between...
• sails5n. The sailmaker on board ship.
• saint5n. A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has...
• saker9n. A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
• salad6n. A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens...
• salaf8n. One of the earliest Muslims, including Muhammad's companions and...
• salah8adj. Wrong, incorrect.
• salak9n. Any salak palm (Salacca zalacca), native to Indonesia; also called.
• salal5n. A leathery-leaved North American shrub, Gaultheria shallon, with edible...
• salat5n. The obligatory prayer that Muslims are called to perform five times a...
• salep7n. A starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as...
• saler5n. Salt cellar.
• sales5n. The activities involved in selling goods or services.
• salin5n. A salt reddish substance obtained from vegetable ashes during potash...
• salix12n. Any member of the genus Salix; a willow.
• salle5n. A fencing school.
• sally8n. A willow.
• salmi7n. A rich stew or ragout, especially of game.
• salon5n. A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
• salsa5n. A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot...
• salto5n. A somersault.
• salty8adj. Tasting of salt.
• salve8n. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
• salvo8n. An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
• samaj14n. A society, community or congregation, especially of the Brahmo Samaj.
• saman7n. A fine; a monetary penalty imposed for breaking the law.
• samba9n. A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
• sambo9n. A sandwich.
• samey10adj. Exhibiting sameness, without variety; monotonous.
• sammo9n. A sandwich.
• sammy12v. To moisten (animal skins) with water.
• samsa7n. A Central Asian bun stuffed with meat and sometimes with vegetables.
• sanda6n. A Chinese martial art, self-defense system, and combat sport, similar...
• sando6n. Sandwich.
• sands6n. Sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass...
• sandy9adj. Covered with sand.
• sanga6n. Sandwich.
• sango6n. A sandwich.
• sangu6n. An Indian steel spear.
• sanjo12n. A genre of traditional Korean instrumental music.
• sanna5n. A spongy steamed rice cake, popular in parts of India.
• sanny8n. Hand sanitiser.
• santo5n. A wooden or ivory statue of a saint, angel or other religious figure...
• sanwa8n. Synonym of Japanese millet (“Echinochloa esculenta”).
• sanza14n. Any type of mbira (thumb piano, a plucked lamellophone) of Southern...
• saola5n. A critically endangered ruminant of species Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, of...
• sapan7n. Wood of a timber tree of species Biancaea sappan (syn. Caesalpinia...
• sapid8adj. Tasty, flavoursome.
• sapio7n. A sapiosexual.
• sapor7n. A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
• sappy12adj. Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British...
• saraf8n. A provider of financial services in the Middle East and in South Asia...
• saran5n. A plastic resin used to make packaging films.
• sarge6n. An instance of sarging.
• sarim7n. A powerful faction of literati that dominated Middle and Late Joseon...
• sarin5n. The nerve gas O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical...
• sarki9n. The emir of a Hausa-Fulani emirate.
• sarky12adj. Synonym of sarcastic.
• sarma7n. A dumpling of minced meat and other ingredients wrapped in a leaf...
• sarod6n. A fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music.
• saron5n. A percussion idiophone with bronze bars, of Indonesian origin, used in...
• saros5n. A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.
• sasin5n. Indian antelope; blackbuck.
• sasse5n. A sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable.
• sassy8adj. Bold and spirited, often towards someone in authority; cheeky...
• satay8n. A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and...
• sated6adj. In a state of complete and thorough satisfaction; having one’s appetite...
• satem7adj. Of or relating to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced...
• sater5n. That which sates.
• satin5n. A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a...
• sattu5n. Flour made from a mixture of ground pulses and cereals.
• satyr8n. A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus...
• sauce7n. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
• saucy10adj. Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce.
• saule5n. A hired mourner at a funeral.
• sault5n. A waterfall; a rapid.
• sauna5n. A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
• saung6n. An arched harp used in Burmese traditional music.
• saury8n. A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike...
• saved9adj. Rescued from the consequences of sin.
• saver8n. One who saves.
• savin8n. The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a...
• savvy14adj. Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
• sawah11n. A rice paddy.
• sawer8n. One who saws; a sawyer.
• sayer8n. One who says; one who makes announcements; a crier.
• sayon8n. A medieval peasant's sleeveless jacket.
• sazan14n. A fish (Cyprinus carpio) in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to Sea...
• scala7n. Ladder; sequence.
• scald8v. To burn with hot liquid.
• scale7n. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of...
• scalp9n. The top of the head; the skull.
• scaly10adj. Covered or abounding with scales.
• scamp11n. A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.
• scant7adj. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
• scape9n. A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean...
• scare7n. A minor fright.
• scarf10n. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
• scarp9n. The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
• scart7v. To scratch or scrape.
• scary10adj. Causing fear or anxiety.
• scaup9n. Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya.
• scena7n. A scene in an opera.
• scene7n. The location of an event that attracts attention.
• scent7n. A distinctive smell.
• schiz19n. An insane person.
• schwa13n. An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented...
• scion7n. A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a...
• scoff13n. A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
• scold8n. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry...
• scone7n. A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
• scoon7v. To skim along (a surface) like a vessel on the water.
• scoop9n. Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift...
• scoot7n. A swift movement or trip.
• scopa9n. Any of various clusters of hair of non-parasitic bees that serve to...
• scope9n. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability...
• scops9n. The scops owl.
• score7n. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant...
• scorn7v. To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to...
• scorp9n. A resident of Gibraltar.
• scour7v. To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it...
• scout7n. A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one...
• scowl10n. The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of...
• scrag8n. A scrog.
• scram9v. To leave in a hurry; to go away.
• scran7n. Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.
• scrap9n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• scrat7v. To scratch or scrape.
• scray10n. A tern; the sea swallow.
• scree7n. Loose stony debris on a slope.
• screw10n. A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
• scrim9n. A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork...
• scrip9n. A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
• scrod8n. Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish.
• scrub9n. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing...
• scrum9n. A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people.
• scuba9n. An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding...
• scudo8n. A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the...
• scuff13v. To scrape the feet while walking.
• scull7n. A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side...
• sculp9v. To flay.
• scurf10n. A skin disease.
• scute7n. A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of...
• scuzz25n. A scuzzy person, an unpleasant or disgusting person.
• sealy8adj. Resembling or characteristic of a seal (the animal).
• seamy10adj. Sordid, squalid or corrupt.
• sebum9n. A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin...
• secco9adj. Dry.
• secor7n. An interval of 116.7 cents.
• sedan6n. An enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by...
• seder6n. The ceremonial meal held on the first night or first two nights of...
• sedes6n. The position a word or phrase occupies within the meter.
• sedge7n. Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
• sedum8n. Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to...
• seedy9adj. Containing or full of seeds.
• seekh12n. Seekh kebab.
• sefer8n. A book, especially a religious book.
• segno6n. The sign 𝄋, indicating the start of a passage of music to be repeated.
• segue6v. To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
• seine5n. A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at...
• seiza14n. A traditional formal way of sitting in Japan, by kneeling with the legs...
• seize14v. To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
• selah8interj. A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew...
• selar5n. The yellowtail scad.
• selca7n. A photographic portrait taken by the subject; a selfie.
• selfy11adj. Relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.
• sella5n. Synonym of sella turcica.
• sello5n. Sellotape.
• selly8adj. Rare; wonderful; admirable.
• selva8n. Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.
• selve8v. To become or cause to become a unique self.
• semba9n. A genre of traditional music and dance from Angola.
• semis7n. A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an...
• semla7n. A pastry with a cream and almond paste filling, traditionally eaten on...
• semon7n. A unit of semiology or semantics.
• sendy9adj. Daring, intense, going all-out.
• senet5n. An Ancient Egyptian board game, probably played as a strategy game...
• senex12n. An older or old man, chiefly as a stock character.
• sengi6n. Any of several small, insectivorous long-nosed mammals, of the family...
• senna5n. Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the...
• sense5n. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world...
• sensu5prep. In the sense of.
• sente5n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Lesotho loti.
• senti5adj. Sentimental, emotional.
• sepal7n. One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when such...
• sepia7n. A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.
• sepoy10n. A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a...
• serac7n. Often sérac: a hard, cone-shaped, pale green, strongly flavoured cheese...
• serai5n. A palace.
• seral5adj. Being dried or withered.
• serge6n. A type of worsted cloth.
• serie5n. Series.
• serif8n. A short line added to the end of a stroke in traditional typefaces...
• serin5n. Any of various small finches in the genus Serinus, with largely yellow...
• serow8n. Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis.
• serra5n. A saw, or saw-like part.
• serry8v. To crowd, press together, or close (rank).
• serum7n. Blood serum used as a blood product, in the practice of medicine: blood...
• serve8v. To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official...
• servo8n. A servomechanism.
• sesma7n. A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 13.9 cm.
• setar5n. A Persian musical instrument.
• seton5n. A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced...
• setup7n. Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
• seven8n. The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.
• sever8v. To cut free.
• sewed9adj. Having been created through the sewing process.
• sewel8n. A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to...
• sewer8n. A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human...
• sewin8n. Sea trout, a subspecies of brown trout (Salmo trutta morpha trutta).
• sgurr6n. A rocky peak in Scotland.
• shabu10n. Methedrine; methamphetamine.
• shack14n. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
• shade9n. Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
• shady12adj. Abounding in shades.
• shaft11n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
• shahi11n. A former currency unit of Iran, worth one twentieth of a qiran.
• shail8v. To walk or move unsteadily or haphazardly; stumbling or shuffling.
• shaka12n. A greeting gesture in which the thumb and little finger are extended...
• shake12v. To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions...
• shako12n. A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a...
• shaku12n. The Japanese foot, a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10...
• shaky15adj. Shaking or trembling.
• shale8n. A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.
• shall8v. Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first...
• shaly11adj. Pertaining to or resembling shale.
• shama10n. Copsychus malabaricus (white-rumped shama), a saxicoline songbird of...
• shame10n. An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness...
• shand9n. Shame; scandal; disgrace.
• shang9n. A Chinese unit of land area equivalent to 15 mu or about one hectare.
• shank12n. The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
• shant8n. A drink, usually a pint.
• shape10n. The status or condition of something.
• shard9n. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an...
• share8n. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to...
• shari8n. Dead wood on the main trunk of a bonsai tree.
• shark12n. Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a...
• sharm10n. Self-harm.
• sharn8n. The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.
• sharp10adj. Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce...
• shash11n. The scarf of a turban.
• shave11v. To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a...
• shawl11n. A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head...
• shawm13n. A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
• shaws11n. Stalks or leaves of root vegetables.
• sheaf11n. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound...
• shear8v. To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
• sheat8n. A sheatfish.
• sheen8n. Splendor; radiance; shininess.

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