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Animals that start with S

33 animals that start with S, most familiar first: SHEEP, SWAN, SNAIL and SNAKE. The shortest is STAG, the longest SALAMANDER (10 letters), and SCHNAUZER is worth the most on Wordtide's board (22 points).

All animals that start with S (33)

  • SALAMANDER13
  • SALMON8
  • SANDPIPER14
  • SCARAB10
  • SCHNAUZER22
  • SEASHELL10
  • SERPENT9
  • SHARK10
  • SHEEP9
  • SHEEPDOG14
  • SHRIKE11
  • SILKWORM16
  • SILVERFISH19
  • SKUNK12
  • SLOTH7
  • SNAIL5
  • SNAKE8
  • SNIPE7
  • SONGBIRD12
  • SPANIEL9
  • SPARROW12
  • SPIDER9
  • SQUIRREL17
  • STAG5
  • STALLION8
  • STARFISH13
  • STEED6
  • STINGRAY11
  • STOAT5
  • STORK8
  • STURGEON10
  • SWAN7
  • SWINE8

What these animals are

SHEEP
woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
SWAN
stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
SNAIL
freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external…
SNAKE
limbless scaly elongate reptile
SHARK
any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins…
SPIDER
predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two…
SALMON
any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters
SWINE
stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals
SQUIRREL
a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
SERPENT
limbless scaly elongate reptile
SPARROW
any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects
SKUNK
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled
STAG
a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
STALLION
uncastrated adult male horse
STORK
large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
SLOTH
any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America

Short definitions from WordNet 3.1 (Princeton University).

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