Dear cute little learners! How are you all doing?
Well, we missed you all, too! Here we are with the alphabet S today!!
So, tell us what six-letter words begin with the letter S do you all know? The English alphabet’s 19th letter, which has a long history, is special.
How is it special? (you might be asking it now, yes we can read your mind!)
S is often termed as the ‘slippery’ letter. It is because of a common but perplexing regulation that occasionally requires the use of “S”
It is a strange, feminine-sounding letter that is a part of the English language’s softer sounds.
So, hop on to the list of words and meaning starting with S and learn more!
List Of 6-Letter Words Starting With S
Sabalo | less commonly sabalote |
Sabbat | a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jewish people from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday. |
Sabers | a heavy cavalry sword with a curved blade and a single cutting edge. |
Sabins | noun. a female given name |
Sables | a marten with a short tail and dark brown fur, native to Japan and Siberia and valued for its fur. |
Sabots | a kind of simple shoe, shaped and hollowed out from a single block of wood, traditionally worn by French and Breton peasants. |
Sabras | a Jewish person born in Israel (or before 1948 in Palestine) |
Sabred | cut down or wound with a saber. |
Sachem | among some North American Indian peoples) a chief. |
Sachet | a small sealed bag or packet containing a small quantity of something. |
Sacked | dismissed from employment. |
Sacker | A person who sacks or plunders |
Sacque | an infant’s usually short jacket that fastens at the neck. |
Sacral | relating to sacred rites or symbols. |
Sacred | connected with God or a god or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration. |
Sacrum | a triangular bone in the lower back formed from fused vertebrae and situated between the two hip bones of the pelvis. |
Sadden | cause to feel sorrow; make unhappy. |
Sadder | feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy. |
Saddle | a seat fastened on the back of a horse or other animal for riding, typically made of leather and raised at the front and rear. |
Sadhes | a long strip or loop of cloth worn over one shoulder or round the waist, especially as part of a uniform or official dress. |
Sadhus | a holy man, sage, or ascetic. |
Sadism | the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others. |
Sadist | a person who derives pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain or humiliation on others. |
Safari | an expedition to observe or hunt animals in their natural habitat, especially in East Africa. |
Safely | in a way that gives protection from danger or risk. |
Safest | protected from or not exposed to danger or risk; not likely to be harmed or lost. |
Safety | the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury. |
Sagely | in a profoundly wise manner. |
Sagest | proceeding from or characterized by wisdom, prudence, and good judgment. |
Saggar | a protective fireclay box enclosing ceramic ware while it is being fired. |
Sagged | sink, subside, or bulge downwards under weight or pressure or through lack of strength. |
Sagger | a protective fireclay box enclosing ceramic ware while it is being fired. |
Sahibs | a polite title or form of address for a man. |
Saices | a liquid or semi-liquid substance served with food to add moistness and flavor. |
Saigas | a long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose narrative in Old Norse or Old Icelandic. |
Sailed | of a boat or ship) having a sail or sails of a specified kind. |
Sailer | a person whose job it is to work as a member of the crew of a commercial or naval ship or boat, especially one who is below the rank of officer. |
Sailor | a person whose job it is to work as a member of the crew of a commercial or naval ship or boat, especially one who is below the rank of officer. |
Sained | mark or discolor with something that is not easily removed. |
Saints | a person acknowledged as holy or virtuous and regarded in Christian faith as being in heaven after death. |
Saithe | a commercially valuable food fish of the cod family, which occurs in the North Atlantic. |
Sakers | a large Eurasian falcon with a brown back and whitish head, used in falconry. |
Sakkoi | a wild or uncouth person. |
Sakkos | a vestment resembling a dalmatic worn by a bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church during the liturgy. |
Salaam | a common greeting in many Arabic-speaking and Muslim countries. |
Salade | another term for sallet. |
Salads | a cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables, usually seasoned with oil, vinegar, or other dressing and sometimes accompanied by meat, fish, or other ingredients. |
Salals | a North American plant of the heather family, with clusters of pink or white flowers and edible purple-black berries. |
Salami | a type of highly seasoned sausage, originally from Italy, usually eaten cold in slices. |
Salary | a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker. |
Salats | the ritual prayer of Muslims, performed five times daily in a set form, one of the Five Pillars of Islam. |
Saleps | a starchy preparation of the dried tubers of various orchids, used as a thickener in cooking and as the basis of a drink. |
Salify | to treat, mix with, or cause to combine with a salt |
Salina | chiefly in the Caribbean or South America) a salt pan, salt lake, or salt marsh. |
Saline | containing or impregnated with salt. |
Saliva | watery liquid secreted into the mouth by glands, providing lubrication for chewing and swallowing, and aiding digestion. |
Sallet | a light helmet with an outward curve extending over the back of the neck, worn as part of medieval armor. |
Sallow | of a person’s face or complexion) of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown color. |
Salmis | a type of highly seasoned sausage, originally from Italy, usually eaten cold in slices. |
Salmon | a large edible fish that is a popular sporting fish, much prized for its pink flesh. |
Salols | a white sparingly soluble crystalline compound with a slight aromatic odor, used as a preservative and to absorb light in sun-tan lotions, plastics, etc; |
Salons | an establishment where a hairdresser, beautician, or couturier conducts trade. |
Saloon | a public room or building used for a specified purpose. |
Saloop | a hot drink made from an infusion of powdered salep or sassafras with milk and sugar. |
Salpae | any of various minute floating animals of the genus Salpa, of warm oceans, having a transparent barrel-shaped body with openings at either end: |
Salpas | any of various minute floating animals of the genus Salpa, of warm oceans, having a transparent barrel-shaped body with openings at either end: |
Salsas | a type of Latin American dance music incorporating elements of jazz and rock. |
Salted | having salt as an ingredient; containing or seasoned with salt. |
Salter | a person dealing in or employed in the production of salt. |
Saltie | a saltwater crocodile. |
Salugi | a gamelike prank in which a youth grabs something belonging to another and throws it to a third, preventing the owner from retrieving it as it is tossed back and forth. |
Salute | a gesture of respect or polite recognition, especially one made to or by a person when arriving or departing. |
Salved | an ointment used to promote healing of the skin or as protection. |
Salver | a tray, typically one made of silver and used in formal circumstances. |
Salves | a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person. |
Salvia | a widely distributed plant of a genus including the sages, especially (in gardening) a bedding plant cultivated for its spikes of bright flowers. |
Salvor | a person engaged in salvage of a ship or items lost at sea. |
Salvos | a simultaneous discharge of artillery or other guns in a battle. |
Samajs | an official group or association |
Samara | guardian; protected by God; reward. |
Sambal | a hot relish made with vegetables or fruit and spices, used especially in Indonesian and Malaysian cooking. |
Sambar | a dark brown woodland deer with branched antlers, of southern Asia. |
Sambur | a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines. |
Samech | support. |
Samekh | to lean upon |
Samite | a rich silk fabric interwoven with gold and silver threads, used for dressmaking and decoration in the Middle Ages. |
Samlet | A young salmon. |
Sammie | a sandwich. |
Samosa | a triangular savory pastry fried in ghee or oil, containing spiced vegetables or meat. |
Sampan | any small skiff, widely used in East Asia, that is propelled by oars or a scull. |
Sample | a small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is like. |
Samshu | Beautiful |
Sandal | a light shoe with either an openwork upper or straps attaching the sole to the foot. |
Sanded | smooth or polish with sandpaper or a mechanical sander. |
Sandek | person who holds a baby that is being circumcised. |
Sander | a power tool used for smoothing a surface with sandpaper or other abrasive material. |
Sandhi | the process whereby the form of a word changes as a result of its position in an utterance (e.g. the change from a to an before a vowel). |
Sanely | with good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner. |
Sanest | of a person) of sound mind; not mad or mentally ill. |
Sanies | a thin discharge from a wound or ulcer, containing serum, pus, and blood. |
Sanity | the ability to think and behave in a normal and rational manner; sound mental health. |
Sanjak | (in the Ottoman Empire) one of the several administrative districts into which a larger district (vilayet) was divided. |
Sannup | a married Native American man, esp. a younger one; husband. |
Sansei | an American or Canadian whose grandparents were immigrants from Japan. |
Santal | a member of a large indigenous group living mainly in eastern India. |
Santir | smell |
Sapors | the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor. |
Sapota | tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp. |
Sapote | marmalade tree |
Sapped | gradually weaken or destroy (a person’s strength or power). |
Sapper | a soldier responsible for tasks such as building and repairing roads and bridges, laying and clearing mines, etc. |
Sarape | a shawl or blanket worn as a cloak by people from Latin America. |
Sarees | a garment consisting of a length of cotton or silk elaborately draped around the body, traditionally worn by women from South Asia. |
Sarges | a sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force such as the tide. |
Sargos | any of several sparid fishes of Diplodus and related genera. |
Sarnie | a sandwich. |
Sarods | a lute used in classical North Indian music, with four main strings. |
Sarong | a garment consisting of a long piece of cloth worn wrapped round the body and tucked at the waist or under the armpits, traditionally worn in SE Asia and now also by women in the West. |
Sarsen | a silicified sandstone boulder of a kind which occurs on the chalk downs of southern England. Such stones were used in constructing Stonehenge and other prehistoric monuments. |
Sashed | a long band or scarf worn over one shoulder or around the waist, as a part of one’s ensemble or a uniform. |
Sashes | a long strip or loop of cloth worn over one shoulder or round the waist, especially as part of a uniform or official dress. |
Sasins | Indian antelope; blackbuck. |
Sassed | be cheeky or rude to (someone). |
Sasses | be cheeky or rude to (someone). |
Satang | a monetary unit of Thailand, equal to one hundredth of a baht. |
Satays | an Indonesian and Malaysian dish consisting of small pieces of meat grilled on a skewer and served with a spiced sauce that typically contains peanuts. |
Sateen | a cotton fabric woven like satin with a glossy surface. |
Sating | satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full. |
Satins | a type of cloth, sometimes made of silk, that is smooth and shiny on one side but not on the other: |
Satiny | having a smooth, glossy surface or finish like that of satin. |
Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |
Satori | sudden enlightenment and a state of consciousness attained by intuitive illumination representing the spiritual goal of Zen Buddhism. |
Satrap | a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire. |
Sattva | the purity and wisdom constituting one of the three gunas of Sankhya philosophy and leading to true enlightenment |
Satyrs | one of a class of lustful, drunken woodland gods. In Greek art they were represented as a man with a horse’s ears and tail, but in Roman representations as a man with a goat’s ears, tail, legs, and horns. |
Sauced | drunk |
Saucer | a shallow dish, typically having a circular indentation in the center, on which a cup is placed. |
Sauces | a liquid or semi-liquid substance served with food to add moistness and flavor. |
Sauger | a slender North American pikeperch with silver eyes, which is active at twilight and at night. |
Saults | leap, jump |
Saunas | a small room used as a hot-air or steam bath for cleaning and refreshing the body. |
Saurel | any of several elongated marine fishes of the genus Trachurus, having bony plates along each side. |
Savage | (of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled. |
Savant | a very learned or talented person, especially one distinguished in a particular field of science or the arts. |
Savate | a French method of boxing in which feet and fists are used. |
Savers | a person who regularly saves money through a bank or recognized scheme. |
Savine | a bushy Eurasian juniper which typically has horizontally spreading branches. |
Saving | an economy of or reduction in money, time, or another resource. |
Savior | a person who saves someone or something from danger or difficulty. |
Savors | taste (good food or drink) and enjoy it to the full. |
Savory | has a salty or spicy flavor rather than a sweet one. |
Sawers | Any of various tools, either hand-operated or power-driven, having a thin metal blade or disk with a sharp, usually toothed edge, used for cutting wood, metal, or other hard materials. |
Sawfly | an insect related to the wasps, with a sawlike egg-laying tube used to cut into plant tissue before depositing the eggs. The larvae resemble caterpillars and can be serious pests of crops and foliage. |
Sawing | cut (something) using a saw. |
Sawpit | a pit over which timber is laid to be sawed with a long two-handled saw operated by two people of whom one stands above the timber and the other below it. |
Sawyer | a person who saws timber for a living. |
Sayers | One who says; one who makes announcements; a crier. |
Sayest | 2nd person singular of say |
Saying | a short, pithy, commonly known expression which generally offers advice or wisdom. |
Sayyid | a Muslim claiming descent from Muhammad, especially through Husayn, the prophet’s younger grandson. |
Scabby | covered in scabs. |
Scalar | (of a quantity) having only magnitude, not direction. |
Scalds | a burn or other injury caused by hot liquid or steam. |
Scaled | covered with or made up of scales or overlapping plates resembling scales. |
Scaler | a person or thing that scales. |
Scales | each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another. |
Scalls | any scaly, or scabby, disease of the skin |
Scalps | the skin covering the head, excluding the face. |
Scampi | usually large shrimp. |
Scamps | a person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likable or amusing way. |
Scants | provide grudgingly or in insufficient amounts. |
Scanty | small or insufficient in quantity or amount. |
Scaped | A leafless flower stalk growing from the crown of the root, as that of the narcissus or dandelion. |
Scapes | a long flower stalk coming directly from a root. |
Scarab | a large dung beetle of the eastern Mediterranean area, regarded as sacred in ancient Egypt. |
Scarce | (especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand. |
Scared | fearful; frightened. |
Scarer | One who, or that which, scares. |
Scares | cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten. |
Scarfs | a length or square of fabric worn around the neck or head. |
Scarph | a rectangular, triangular, or long narrow piece of cloth worn around the head, neck, or shoulders for warmth or decoration. |
Scarps | a very steep bank or slope; an escarpment. |
Scarry | Like a scar, or rocky eminence. |
Scathe | harm |
Scatts | animal fecal droppings. |
Scatty | absent-minded and disorganized. |
Scaups | either of two diving ducks (Aythya affinis or A. marila) with the male having a glossy purplish or greenish head and a black breast and tail. |
Sceats | a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold. |
Scenas | a scene in an opera, usually longer than a single aria. |
Scends | the push or surge created by a wave. |
Scenes | the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred. |
Scenic | providing or relating to views of impressive or beautiful natural scenery. |
Scents | a distinctive smell, especially one that is pleasant. |
Schavs | a cold soup of sorrel to which chopped egg, sour cream, lemon juice, and chopped scallions are sometimes added. |
Schema | a representation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline or model. |
Scheme | a large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining a particular object or putting a particular idea into effect. |
Scherm | a hut, screen, or shelter constructed from branches and canvas, scraped animal hides, or the like. |
Schism | a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief. |
Schist | a coarse-grained metamorphic rock which consists of layers of different minerals and can be split into thin irregular plates. |
Schitz | crazy |
Schizo | (of a person or their behavior) schizophrenic. |
Schizy | having or characterized by schizophrenia. |
Schlep | haul or carry (something heavy or awkward). |
Schlub | a talentless, unattractive, or boorish person. |
Schmoe | a foolish, boring, or stupid person |
Schnoz | a person’s nose. |
School | an institution for educating children. |
Schorl | a black iron-rich variety of tourmaline. |
Schrod | a young haddock, cod, or any similar fish. |
Schuss | a straight downhill run on skis. |
Some Other Examples Of 6-Letter Words Starting With S
Safrol | Santur | Savins |
Interesting Activities For Kids With 6-Letter Words Starting With S
Even though teaching children new words may be beneficial, it may also be useless if they are unable to put those words to use. Several instances of these educational exercises are shown below:
1. Name Game
Playing this fun game will help kids learn about six-letter words that start with the letter S and how to use them correctly.
In the game, the kid is asked questions and has to give an answer. This fun technique is used to teach kids the importance of utilizing these phrases correctly.
Examples:
Q: What Apple web browser is also a Swahili word for an African wildlife trip?
Ans: Safari
Q: ‘In The Zone’, ‘Circus’ and ‘Femme Fatale’ are albums by which pop star?
Ans: Spears
Q: What is the compound in the form of crystals?
Ans: Saltee
Q: What comes after first?
Ans: Second
Q: Name a costly wood.
Ans: Sandal
2. Fill In The Blanks
Fill-in-the-blank exercises are another fun and easy activity. Use this educational game to teach your children some useful 6 letter words that begin with S.
Schl_p
Schl__
Sch_oe
Sc__oz
Sch_ol
Sc_orl
3. Match The Words With Meanings
Another well-liked game that might make it simple for your young kids to learn some new words is a matching activity. Your child will be able to grasp the concepts of similar and dissimilar things through this way. You will need to make two sets of columns for this.
You need to explain to your kids how to read the word and its meaning and how to correctly match them with the appropriate words.
Schwag | i) the white outer layer of the eyeball. At the front of the eye it is continuous with the cornea. |
Schwas | ii) to scrape the ground instead of hitting the ball cleanly on a golf stroke. |
Scions | iii) products given away free, typically for promotional purposes. |
Sclaff | iv) the unstressed central vowel (as in a moment a go), represented by the symbol /ə/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet. |
Sclera | v) a young shoot or twig of a plant, especially one cut for grafting or rooting. |
(Answer: a-v, b-iv, c-i, d-ii, e-iii)
Conclusion
This was the list of six letter words starting with letter S along with the interesting games. If you need further assistance, we are ready to provide it. See you soon with 6 letter words starting with T!
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