Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
sea amenone |
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Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian. |
sea-blubber |
noun |
A jellyfish. |
sea cabbage |
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See Sea kale, under Kale. |
sea captain |
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The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea. |
sea catfish |
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Alt. of Sea cat |
sea compass |
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The mariner’s compass. See under Compass. |
sea feather |
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Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form. |
sea gherkin |
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Alt. of Sea girkin |
sea girdles |
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A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; — called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle. |
sea goddess |
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A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea. |
sea gudgeon |
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The European black goby (Gobius niger). |
sea lamprey |
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The common lamprey. |
sea leopard |
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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 |
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The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food. |
sealing wax |
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A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc. |
sea monster |
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Any large sea animal. |
seamstressy |
noun |
The business of a seamstress. |
sea poacher |
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Alt. of Sea poker |
sea pudding |
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Any large holothurian. |
sea saurian |
noun |
Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon.) the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera. |
sea serpent |
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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 |
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A surgeon fish. |
sea swallow |
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The common tern., The storm petrel., The gannet., See Cornish chough, under Chough. |
sea titling |
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The rock pipit. |
sea trumpet |
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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 |
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The narwhal. |
sea widgeon |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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A very light blue. |
sevres ware |
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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. |