| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| sea amenone | Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian. | |
| sea-blubber | noun | A jellyfish. |
| sea cabbage | See Sea kale, under Kale. | |
| sea captain | The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea. | |
| sea catfish | Alt. of Sea cat | |
| sea compass | The mariner’s compass. See under Compass. | |
| sea feather | Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form. | |
| sea gherkin | Alt. of Sea girkin | |
| sea girdles | A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; — called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle. | |
| sea goddess | A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea. | |
| sea gudgeon | The European black goby (Gobius niger). | |
| sea lamprey | The common lamprey. | |
| sea leopard | Any one of several species of spotted seals, especially Ogmorhinus leptonyx, and Leptonychotes Weddelli, of the Antarctic Ocean. The North Pacific sea leopard is the harbor seal. | |
| sea lettuce | The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food. | |
| sealing wax | A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc. | |
| sea monster | Any large sea animal. | |
| seamstressy | noun | The business of a seamstress. |
| sea poacher | Alt. of Sea poker | |
| sea pudding | Any large holothurian. | |
| sea saurian | noun | Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon.) the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera. |
| sea serpent | Any marine snake. See Sea snake., A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured. | |
| seasickness | noun | The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel. |
| sea surgeon | A surgeon fish. | |
| sea swallow | The common tern., The storm petrel., The gannet., See Cornish chough, under Chough. | |
| sea titling | The rock pipit. | |
| sea trumpet | A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long., Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton. | |
| sea unicorn | The narwhal. | |
| sea widgeon | The scaup duck., The pintail duck. | |
| secondarily | adverb | In a secondary manner or degree., Secondly; in the second place. |
| secondaries | plural | of Secondary |
| second-rate | adjective | Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. |
| secretarial | adjective | Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary. |
| secretariat | noun | Alt. of Secretariate |
| secretaries | plural | of Secretary |
| sectionally | adverb | In a sectional manner. |
| secularized | imp. & past participle | of Secularize |
| secularness | noun | The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly-minded-ness. |
| secundation | noun | Prosperity. |
| sedentarily | adverb | In a sedentary manner. |
| sedimentary | adjective | Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided. |
| seditionary | noun | An inciter or promoter of sedition. |
| seductively | adverb | In a seductive manner. |
| seek-sorrow | noun | One who contrives to give himself vexation. |
| seemingness | noun | Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. |
| segregating | present participle & vb. noun | of Segregate |
| segregation | noun | The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting., Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process. |
| seigneurial | adjective | Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial., Vested with large powers; independent. |
| seigniorage | noun | Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it., A share of the receipts of a business taken in payment for the use of a right, as a copyright or a patent. |
| seigniorial | adjective | Same as Seigneurial. |
| seigniorize | verb t. | To lord it over. |
| seismograph | noun | An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes. |
| seismometer | noun | An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions. |
| seismometry | noun | The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coordinates of space. |
| seismoscope | noun | A seismometer. |
| selachoidei | noun pl. | Same as Selachii. |
| selaginella | noun | A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories. |
| selenhydric | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen selenide, H2Se, regarded as an acid analogous to sulphydric acid. |
| selenitical | adjective | Of or pertaining to selenite; resembling or containing selenite. |
| selenograph | noun | A picture or delineation of the moon’s surface, or of any part of it. |
| self-abased | adjective | Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame. |
| self-acting | adjective | Acting of or by one’s self or by itself; — said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press. |
| self-action | noun | Action by, or originating in, one’s self or itself. |
| self-active | adjective | Acting of one’s self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. |
| self-deceit | noun | The act of deceiving one’s self, or the state of being self-deceived; self-deception. |
| self-denial | noun | The denial of one’s self; forbearing to gratify one’s own desires; self-sacrifice. |
| self-esteem | noun | The holding a good opinion of one’s self; self-complacency. |
| selfishness | noun | The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one’s own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. |
| self-mettle | noun | Inborn mettle or courage; one’s own temper. |
| self-motion | noun | Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse; spontaneus or voluntary motion. |
| self-moving | adjective | Moving by inherent power, without the aid of external impulse. |
| self-murder | adjective | Suicide. |
| self-praise | noun | Praise of one’s self. |
| self-seeker | noun | One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure. |
| self-taught | adjective | Taught by one’s own efforts. |
| self-willed | adjective | Governed by one’s own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate. |
| seltzo-gene | noun | A gazogene. |
| semaphorist | noun | One who manages or operates a semaphore. |
| semiography | noun | A description of the signs of disease., Alt. of Semiological |
| semiiannual | adjective | Half-yearly. |
| semiannular | adjective | Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. |
| semichaotic | adjective | Partially chaotic. |
| semicircled | adjective | Semicircular. |
| semicompact | adjective | Half compact; imperfectly indurated. |
| semicubical | adjective | Of or pertaining to the square root of the cube of a quantity. |
| semidiurnal | adjective | Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day., Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc. |
| semilogical | adjective | Half logical; partly logical; said of fallacies. |
| semimonthly | adjective | Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment., Something done or made every half month; esp., a semimonthly periodical., In a semimonthly manner; at intervals of half a month. |
| semiopacous | adjective | Semiopaque. |
| semipalmate | adjective | Alt. of Semipalmated |
| semisextile | noun | An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees. |
| semispheric | adjective | Alt. of Semispherical |
| semitangent | noun | The tangent of half an arc. |
| semitertian | adjective | Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent., An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian. |
| sempervivum | noun | A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species. |
| sempiternal | adjective | Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end., Without beginning or end; eternal. |
| sempstressy | noun | Seamstressy. |
| senatorious | adjective | Senatorial. |
| senatorship | noun | The office or dignity of a senator. |
| senectitude | noun | Old age. |
| sensational | adjective | Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves., Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge., Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report. |
| sensibility | noun | The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive., The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; — often used in the plural., Experience of sensation; actual feeling., That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer. |
| sensiferous | adjective | Exciting sensation; conveying sensation. |
| sensigenous | adjective | Causing or exciting sensation. |
| sensitivity | noun | The quality or state of being sensitive; — used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver. |
| sensualized | imp. & past participle | of Sensualize |
| sensualness | noun | Sensuality; fleshliness. |
| sententiary | noun | One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine. |
| sententious | adjective | Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth., Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. |
| sentimental | adjective | Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic., Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; — often in a reproachful sense., Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions. |
| sentinelled | of Sentinel | |
| sentineling | present participle & vb. noun | of Sentinel |
| separatical | adjective | Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. |
| sepidaceous | adjective | Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia. |
| septangular | adjective | Heptagonal. |
| septemberer | noun | A Setembrist. |
| septembrist | noun | An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792. |
| septentrial | adjective | Septentrional. |
| septentrion | noun | The north or northern regions., Alt. of Septentrional |
| septicaemia | noun | A poisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and other organs. |
| septiferous | adjective | Bearing a partition; — said of the valves of a capsule., Conveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter. |
| septifluous | adjective | Flowing in seven streams; septemfluous. |
| septifragal | adjective | Breaking from the partitions; — said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis. |
| septinsular | adjective | Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles. |
| sepulchered | imp. & past participle | of Sepulchre |
| sepulchring | of Sepulchre | |
| sequestered | imp. & past participle | of Sequester, Retired; secluded. |
| sequestrate | verb t. | To sequester. |
| seraphicism | noun | The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness. |
| sergeancies | plural | of Sergeancy |
| sericterium | noun | A silk gland, as in the silkworms. |
| sericulture | noun | The raising of silkworms. |
| serio-comic | adjective | Alt. of Serio-comical |
| sermonizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Sermonize |
| serpentaria | adjective | The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia Serpentaria). |
| serpiginous | adjective | Creeping; — said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another. |
| serrulation | noun | The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw., One of the teeth in a serrulate margin. |
| sertularian | noun | Any species of Sertularia, or of Sertularidae, a family of hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecae. Also used adjectively. |
| serviceable | adjective | Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous., Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent. |
| servileness | noun | Quality of being servile; servility. |
| sesquialter | adjective | Sesquialteral., Alt. of Sesquialtera |
| sesquibasic | adjective | Containing, or acting as, a base in the proportions of a sesqui compound. |
| sesquioxide | noun | An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide. |
| sesquipedal | adjective | Alt. of Sesquipedalian |
| settledness | noun | The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state. |
| seventeenth | adjective | Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others., Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided., The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others., The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole., An interval of two octaves and a third. |
| sevres blue | A very light blue. | |
| sevres ware | Porcelain manufactured at Sevres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there. | |
| sexagesimal | adjective | Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty., A sexagesimal fraction. |
| sexdigitism | noun | The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot. |
| sexdigitist | noun | One who has six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot. |
| sexennially | adverb | Once in six years. |
| sextodecimo | adjective | Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume., A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; — usually written 16mo, or 16ยก. |