This page gathers the 5,895 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “UK” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 49 of 59: from “sorting” to “starrer”.
- sorting noun Mending.
- soss noun Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
- sound intj Yes; used to show agreement or understanding.
- soup noun An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
- soured cream noun A cream that has been soured and thickened by using Lactobacillus bacteria; used in soups, salads and meat dishes such as beef Stroganoff.
- sov noun Pound sterling.
- sovereign noun A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
- sowl noun A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
- spack noun A person with cerebral palsy.
- spacker noun A person with cerebral palsy.
- spacko noun A person with cerebral palsy.
- spacky adj incompetent or physically uncoordinated
- spad noun An instance of a signal passed at danger.
- spang verb To leap; spring.
- spangled adj drunk or high.
- spanish noun Money.
- Spanish practices noun Irregular practices in favour of the workers at a place of work, which are implied, but not specified, in the work contract.
- spanker noun A small coin.
- spanner noun A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.
- spare adj Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- spark noun An electrician.
- spark out adj Completely asleep or unconscious.
- sparky noun An electrician.
- sparrow noun A quick-witted, lively person.
- sparrow-fart noun A time very early in the day; dawn.
- spat noun A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
- spatula noun A tongue depressor.
- spearchucker noun A black (African or African-American or an Aboriginal Australian) person.
- speccy noun A Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.
- special noun A special constable.
- special licence noun A marriage licence, granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury or his officials, permitting the marriage of two specified persons without…
- special measures noun External administration for a failing public service such as a school or hospital.
- specialist adj Specialised, involving detailed knowledge of a restricted topic.
- spell verb To hanker or yearn (for something).
- spent adj Of legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.
- spicehead noun A person who is under the influence of, or addicted to a synthetic cannibinoid.
- spider noun A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- spiffing adj Very good, excellent.
- spin noun A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- spinney noun A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
- spiv noun A smartly dressed person who trades in illicit, black-market or stolen goods, especially during World War II.
- spliff noun A cannabis cigarette.
- splosh noun Tea (the drink).
- spoilt adj Having lost its original value
- sponge noun A type of steamed pudding.
- sponge bag noun A bag for carrying toiletries, as when travelling.
- spoof noun A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total…
- sportsman noun A man who engages in sports; an athlete.
- sprat noun A sixpence.
- spreathe verb To make chapped, as with cold.
- spring verb To mature.
- spring greens noun the dark green leaves of the borecole plant, Brassica oleracea acephala, used as a vegetable; collard greens
- sprinter noun A British diesel multiple unit of class 150, 153, 155, 156, 158 or 159.
- sprog noun A child.
- sprunny adj neat; spruce
- spunk noun Synonym of taper, a thin stick used for transferring flames, especially a sulfur match.
- spunky adj Pertaining to or like spunk (semen).
- Spursy adj Having a promising team, but losing in an embarrassing way.
- spy cop noun An undercover police officer tasked with infiltrating a politically active group which is deemed to pose a risk of criminal activity, so as…
- squad noun Sloppy mud.
- squally adj Having unproductive wet spots due to poor drainage.
- square noun The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- square kilometre noun Standard unit of area, symbol km², equal to the area of a square whose sides are one kilometre long; 10⁶ square metres.
- Squarial noun A flat, diamond-shaped aerial (antenna) for receiving satellite television signals; it became obsolete in the 1990s.
- squeaky bum time noun Chiefly, an exciting part of a sporting event, particularly the final moments of a close game or season.
- squeeze noun A person's neck.
- squelch verb To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
- squid noun A quid; one pound sterling.
- squidger noun A squirrel.
- squidgy adj Moist and pliant; soggy.
- squiffy adj slightly drunk or intoxicated; tipsy
- squire noun A term of address to a male equal.
- squirt noun A small child.
- squish noun Marmalade.
- squizz noun A look.
- stable-stand noun The position of a person found standing in the forest with a crossbow or longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with…
- stack noun A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- staff corps noun A body of officers and soldiers who performed engineering and siege duties, made reconnaissances, etc. during the wars of Wellington.
- stag verb To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
- stagger noun One who attends a stag night.
- staggering bob noun A newborn calf.
- staith noun A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars into vessels.
- staithe noun A riverbank
- stam verb To confound.
- stammel noun A large, clumsy horse.
- stamp duty noun Ellipsis of stamp duty land tax (“a tax on land transactions in England and Northern Ireland”).
- stand verb To be a candidate (in an election).
- standard intj An expression of agreement.
- standard fare noun The price charged to passengers who travel without buying tickets in advance on certain public transport systems (especially British bus…
- standfirst noun Explanatory text under the main heading of a news article, smaller than the heading but still larger than the main text.
- standing noun Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
- stank noun Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
- star up verb To transfer (an incarcerated juvenile offender) to an adult prison earlier than the usual age of 18 or 21.
- Starfish site noun Any of the decoy cities built in the British countryside and set on fire during nearby bombing raids to divert German bombers away from…
- starkers adj Completely nude.
- Starmerian adj Of or pertaining to Keir Starmer (born 1962), British Labour politician and Prime Minister since 2024.
- Starmerism noun The political ideology, support or the government of Keir Starmer.
- Starmtrooper noun A particularly loyal supporter of prime minister Keir Starmer; especially a politician or candidate selected by Starmer's office.
- starn noun The European starling.
- starrer noun A film featuring a particular movie star.