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Schappe
  • (n.) A silk yarn or fabric made out of carded spun silk.

    Schedule
  • (n.) A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper
  • (v. t.) To form into, or place in, a schedule.

    Scheelite
  • (n.) Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization

    Schema
  • (n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind

    Scheme
  • (n.) A combination of things connected and adjusted by design
  • (v. i.) To form a scheme or schemes.
  • (v. t.) To make a scheme of

    Scheming
  • (a.) Given to forming schemes

    Scherzando
  • (adv.) In a playful or sportive manner.

    Scherzo
  • (n.) A playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony

    Schiller
  • (n.) The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc

    Schilling
  • (n.) Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents

    Schism
  • (n.) Division or separation

    Schist
  • (n.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates

    Schizocarp
  • (n.) A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.

    Schizont
  • (n.) In certain Sporozoa, a cell formed by the growth of a sporozoite or merozoite (in a cell or corpuscle of the host) which segment by superficial cleavage, without encystment or conjugation, into merozoites

    Schizophyte
  • (n.) One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not

    Schizopod
  • (n.) one of the Schizopoda. Also used adjectively.

    Schnapps
  • (n.) Holland gin.

    Scholar
  • (n.) A man of books.

    Scholastic
  • (a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions
  • (n.) One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.

    Scholiast
  • (n.) A maker of scholia

    Scholium
  • (n.) A marginal annotation

    School
  • (n.) An assemblage of scholars
  • (v. t.) To train in an institution of learning

    Schooner
  • (n.) A large goblet or drinking glass

    Schorl
  • (n.) Black tourmaline.

    Schottische
  • (n.) A Scotch round dance in 2-4 time, similar to the polka, only slower

    Sciatic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the hip
  • (n.) Sciatica.

    Science
  • (n.) Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws
  • (v. t.) To cause to become versed in science

    Scienter
  • (adv.) Knowingly

    Sciential
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, science.

    Scientific
  • (a.) Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science

    Scientist
  • (n.) One learned in science

    Scilicet
  • (adv.) To wit

    Scimitar
  • (n.) A long-handled billhook.

    Scintilla
  • (n.) A spark

    Sciolism
  • (n.) The knowledge of a sciolist

    Scion
  • (n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.

    Scirrhous
  • (a.) Proceeding from scirrhus

    Scissel
  • (n.) The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.

    Scissile
  • (a.) Capable of being cut smoothly

    Scission
  • (n.) The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.

    Scissor
  • (v. t.) To cut with scissors or shears

    Scissure
  • (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting

    Sciurine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family.
  • (n.) A rodent of the Squirrel family.

    Sclaff
  • (n.) A slight blow
  • (v. i.) To scrape the ground with the sole of the club, before striking the ball, in making a stroke
  • (v. t.) To scrape (the club) on the ground, in a stroke, before hitting the ball

    Sclerenchyma
  • (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals

    Scleriasis
  • (n.) A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.

    Sclerite
  • (n.) A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria

    Scleroderma
  • (n.) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.

    Scleroid
  • (a.) Having a hard texture, as nutshells.

    Sclerometer
  • (n.) An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.

    Sclerosed
  • (a.) Affected with sclerosis.

    Sclerosis
  • (n.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.

    Sclerotic
  • (a.) Affected with sclerosis
  • (n.) The sclerotic coat of the eye.

    Sclerotium
  • (n.) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot

    Sclerous
  • (a.) Hard

    Scoff
  • (n.) An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
  • (v. t.) To treat or address with derision

    Scold
  • (n.) A scolding
  • (v. i.) To find fault or rail with rude clamor
  • (v. t.) To chide with rudeness and clamor

    Scolecite
  • (n.) A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime

    Scolex
  • (n.) One of the Scolecida.

    Scoliosis
  • (n.) A lateral curvature of the spine.

    Sconce
  • (p. p.) A fixed seat or shelf.
  • (v. t.) To mulct

    Scone
  • (n.) A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.

    Scoop
  • (n.) A beat.
  • (v. t.) To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival).

    Scoot
  • (v. i.) To walk fast

    Scope
  • (n.) Extended area.
  • (v. t.) To look at for the purpose of evaluation

    Scopula
  • (n.) A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web

    Scorch
  • (v. i.) To be burnt on the surface
  • (v. t.) To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat

    Score
  • (n.) Account
  • (v. i.) To keep the score in a game
  • (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something

    Scoria
  • (n.) Cellular slaggy lava

    Scorify
  • (v. t.) To reduce to scoria or slag

    Scorn
  • (n.) An act or expression of extreme contempt.
  • (v. i.) To scoff

    Scorpio
  • (n.) A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares. It is drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a scorpion

    Scot
  • (n.) A name for a horse.

    Scoundrel
  • (a.) Low
  • (n.) A mean, worthless fellow

    Scour
  • (n.) A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a fall.
  • (v. i.) To be purged freely
  • (v. t.) To cleanse or clear, as by a current of water

    Scouse
  • (n.) A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat

    Scout
  • (n.) A boy scout (which see, above).
  • (v. i.) To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy
  • (v. t.) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout

    Scow
  • (n.) A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
  • (v. t.) To transport in a scow.

    Scrabble
  • (n.) The act of scrabbling
  • (v. t.) To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks

    Scrag
  • (n.) A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
  • (v. t.) To seize, pull, or twist the neck of

    Scramble
  • (n.) The act of jostling and pushing for something desired
  • (v. i.) To clamber with hands and knees
  • (v. t.) To collect by scrambling

    Scrapbook
  • (n.) A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.

    Scrape
  • (n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping
  • (v. i.) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
  • (v. t.) To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping

    Scrapple
  • (n.) An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal

    Scrappy
  • (a.) Consisting of scraps

    Scratch
  • (a.) Made, done, or happening by chance
  • (n.) A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough
  • (v. i.) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
  • (v. t.) To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list

    Scrawl
  • (n.) Unskillful or inelegant writing
  • (v. t.) To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly

    Scrawny
  • (a.) Meager

    Screak
  • (n.) A creaking
  • (v.) To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound

    Scream
  • (n.) A sharp, shrill cry, uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain
  • (v. i.) To cry out with a shrill voice

    Scree
  • (n.) A pebble

    Screw
  • (n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next
  • (v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion
  • (v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon

    Scribble
  • (n.) Hasty or careless writing
  • (v. i.) To write without care, elegance, or value
  • (v. t.) To card coarsely

    Scribe
  • (n.) A writer and doctor of the law
  • (v. i.) To make a mark.
  • (v. t.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like

    Scrim
  • (n.) A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns

    Scrip
  • (n.) A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments

    Scrivener
  • (n.) A professional writer

    Scrofula
  • (n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery

    Scrofulous
  • (a.) Diseased or affected with scrofula.

    Scroll
  • (n.) A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal

    Scrotum
  • (n.) The bag or pouch which contains the testicles

    Scrub
  • (a.) Mean
  • (n.) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
  • (v. i.) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush
  • (v. t.) To rub hard

    Scruff
  • (n.) Scurf.

    Scrumptious
  • (a.) Nice

    Scrunch
  • (v. t. & v. i.) To scranch

    Scruple
  • (n.) A weight of twenty grains
  • (v. i.) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience
  • (v. t.) To excite scruples in

    Scrupulous
  • (a.) Careful

    Scrutable
  • (a.) Discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination.

    Scrutineer
  • (n.) A scrutinizer

    Scrutinize
  • (v. i.) To make scrutiny.
  • (v. t.) To examine closely

    Scrutiny
  • (n.) An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll
  • (v. t.) To scrutinize.

    Scud
  • (n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
  • (v. i.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
  • (v. t.) To pass over quickly.

    Scuff
  • (n.) The back part of the neck
  • (v. i.) To walk without lifting the feet

    Scull
  • (n.) A boat
  • (v. i.) To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
  • (v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side

    Sculp
  • (v. t.) To sculpture

    Scumble
  • (v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect

    Scup
  • (n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States

    Scurf
  • (n.) Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.

    Scurrility
  • (n.) That which is scurrile or scurrilous

    Scurrilous
  • (a.) Containing low indecency or abuse

    Scurry
  • (n.) Act of scurring
  • (v. i.) To hasten away or along

    Scurvy
  • (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes

    Scut
  • (n.) The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect

    Scylla
  • (n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily

    Scyphistoma
  • (n.) The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian

    Scyphus
  • (n.) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha.

    Scythe
  • (n.) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use
  • (v. t.) To cut with a scythe

    Scythian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scythia

    Sea
  • (n.) A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem

    Seaboard
  • (a.) Bordering upon, or being near, the sea
  • (adv.) Toward the sea.
  • (n.) The seashore

    Seacoast
  • (n.) The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.

    Seafarer
  • (n.) One who follows the sea as a business

    Seafaring
  • (a.) Following the business of a mariner

    Seagirt
  • (a.) Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean

    Seagoing
  • (a.) Going upon the sea

    Seal
  • (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid
  • (v. i.) To affix one's seal, or a seal.
  • (v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.

    Seam
  • (n.) A denomination of weight or measure.
  • (v. i.) To become ridgy
  • (v. t.) To form a seam upon or of

    Seance
  • (n.) A session, as of some public body

    Seaport
  • (n.) A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively

    Seaquake
  • (n.) A quaking of the sea.

    Sear
  • (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.

    Seascape
  • (n.) A picture representing a scene at sea.

    Seashell
  • (n.) The shell of any marine mollusk.

    Seashore
  • (n.) All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks.

    Seasick
  • (a.) Affected with seasickness.

    Seaside
  • (n.) The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea

    Season
  • (n.) A period of time not very long
  • (v. i.) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance
  • (v. t.) Hence, to fit for enjoyment

    Seat
  • (n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests
  • (v. i.) To rest
  • (v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of

    Seaward
  • (a.) Directed or situated toward the sea.
  • (adv.) Toward the sea.

    Seaware
  • (n.) Seaweed

    Seaweed
  • (n.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.

    Seaworthy
  • (a.) Fit for a voyage

    Sebaceous
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, fat

    Seborrhea
  • (n.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin

    Secant
  • (a.) A line that cuts another

    Secco
  • (a.) Dry.

    Secede
  • (v. i.) To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association

    Secern
  • (v. t.) To secrete

    Secession
  • (n.) The act of seceding

    Seclude
  • (v. t.) To shut or keep out

    Seclusion
  • (n.) The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded

    Seclusive
  • (a.) Tending to seclude

    Second
  • (a.) Being of the same kind as another that has preceded
  • (n.) Aid

    Secrecy
  • (n.) Seclusion

    Secret
  • (a.) A thing not discovered
  • (v. t.) To keep secret.

    Sect
  • (n.) A cutting

    Secular
  • (a.) Belonging to the laity
  • (n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

    Secund
  • (a.) Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk.

    Secure
  • (a.) Confident in opinion
  • (v. t.) To get possession of

    Security
  • (n.) An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.

    Sedan
  • (n.) A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person

    Sedate
  • (a.) Undisturbed by passion or caprice

    Sedation
  • (n.) The act of calming, or the state of being calm.

    Sedative
  • (a.) allaying irritability and irritation
  • (n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.

    Sedentary
  • (a.) Accustomed to sit much or long

    Sedge
  • (n.) A flock of herons.

    Sedilia
  • (n. pl.) Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service

    Sediment
  • (n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

    Sedition
  • (n.) Dissension

    Seditious
  • (a.) Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority

    Seduce
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity

    Seduction
  • (n.) That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce

    Seductive
  • (a.) Tending to lead astray

    Seductress
  • (n.) A woman who seduces.

    Sedulous
  • (a.) Diligent in application or pursuit

    Sedum
  • (n.) A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers

    See
  • (n.) A seat
  • (v. i.) Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension
  • (v. t.) In poker and similar games at cards, to meet (a bet), or to equal the bet of (a player), by staking the same sum

    Seed
  • (n.) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper
  • (v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered

    Seeing
  • (conj. (but originally a present participle)) In view of the fact (that)

    Seek
  • (a.) Sick.
  • (v. i.) To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.
  • (v. t.) To go in search of

    Seel
  • (v. i.) To incline to one side
  • (v. t.) Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes

    Seem
  • (a.) To appear, or to appear to be
  • (v. t.) To befit

    Seen
  • (a.) Versed
  • (p. p.) of See

    Seer
  • (a.) Sore
  • (n.) A person who foresees events

    Seesaw
  • (a.) Moving up and down, or to and fro
  • (n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play.
  • (v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion
  • (v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.

    Seethe
  • (n.) To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid
  • (v. i.) To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion

    Segment
  • (n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane
  • (v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth

    Segno
  • (n.) A sign.

    Segregate
  • (a.) Separate
  • (v. i.) To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification
  • (v. t.) To separate from others

    Segregation
  • (n.) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process

    Seignior
  • (n.) A lord

    Seine
  • (n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish

    Seismogram
  • (n.) The trace or record of an earth tremor, made by means of a seismograph.

    Seismograph
  • (n.) An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

    Seismology
  • (n.) The science of earthquakes.

    Seismometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions

    Seize
  • (v. t.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline

    Seizin
  • (n.) Possession

    Seizure
  • (n.) Retention within one's grasp or power

    Selachian
  • (n.) One of the Selachii.

    Selaginella
  • (n.) A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores

    Selah
  • (n.) A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms

    Seldom
  • (a.) Rare

    Select
  • (a.) Taken from a number by preferance
  • (v. t.) To choose and take from a number

    Selenate
  • (n.) A salt of selenic acid

    Selenic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to selenium

    Seleniferous
  • (a.) Containing, or impregnated with, selenium

    Selenious
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, selenium

    Selenite
  • (n.) A salt of selenious acid.

    Selenium
  • (n.) A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance

    Selenography
  • (n.) The science that treats of the physical features of the moon

    Selenology
  • (n.) That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon.

    Self
  • (a.) Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change
  • (n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest

    Sell
  • (n.) A cell
  • (v. i.) To be sold
  • (v. t.) To impose upon

    Selves
  • (n.) pl. of Self.

    Semaphore
  • (n.) A signal telegraph

    Semasiology
  • (n.) The science of meanings or sense development (of words)

    Sematic
  • (a.) Significant

    Semblable
  • (a.) Like
  • (n.) Likeness

    Semblance
  • (a.) Likeness

    Semen
  • (n.) The seed of plants.

    Semester
  • (n.) A period of six months

    Semibreve
  • (n.) A note of half the time or duration of the breve

    Semicentennial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years
  • (n.) A fiftieth anniversary.

    Semicircle
  • (n.) A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference.

    Semicolon
  • (n.) The punctuation mark

    Semiconscious
  • (a.) Half conscious

    Semidetached
  • (a.) Half detached

    Semidiameter
  • (n.) Half of a diameter

    Semidiurnal
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours

    Semidome
  • (n.) A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like

    Semifluid
  • (a.) Imperfectly fluid.
  • (n.) A semifluid substance.

    Semiliquid
  • (a.) Half liquid

    Semilunar
  • (a.) Shaped like a half moon.
  • (n.) The semilunar bone.

    Semimonthly
  • (a.) Coming or made twice in a month
  • (adv.) In a semimonthly manner
  • (n.) Something done or made every half month

    Seminal
  • (a.) Contained in seed
  • (n.) A seed.

    Seminar
  • (n.) A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc

    Seminiferous
  • (a.) Seed-bearing

    Seminude
  • (a.) Partially nude

    Semiofficial
  • (a.) Half official

    Semiology
  • (n.) The art of using signs in signaling.

    Semiotic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the signs or symptoms of diseases.

    Semiprecious
  • (a.) Somewhat precious

    Semiquaver
  • (n.) A note of half the duration of the quaver

    Semisolid
  • (a.) Partially solid.

    Semitic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants

    Semitism
  • (n.) A Semitic idiom

    Semitone
  • (n.) Half a tone

    Semitransparent
  • (a.) Half or imperfectly transparent.

    Semivowel
  • (n.) A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y

    Semiweekly
  • (a.) Coming, or made, or done, once every half week
  • (adv.) At intervals of half a week each.
  • (n.) That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical.

    Semolina
  • (n.) The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones

    Sempervivum
  • (n.) A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species

    Sempiternal
  • (a.) Of neverending duration

    Sempre
  • (adv.) Always

    Sempstress
  • (n.) A seamstress.

    Sen
  • (adv., prep., & conj.) Since.
  • (n.) A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.

    Senary
  • (a.) Of six

    Senate
  • (n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority

    Senator
  • (n.) A member of a senate.

    Send
  • (n.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.
  • (v. i.) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be or to happen

    Senecio
  • (n.) A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.

    Senega
  • (n.) Seneca root.

    Senescent
  • (a.) Growing old

    Seneschal
  • (n.) An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies

    Senhor
  • (n.) A Portuguese title of courtesy corresponding to the Spanish se–or or the English Mr. or sir

    Senile
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to old age

    Senior
  • (a.) Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools
  • (n.) An aged person

    Senna
  • (n.) The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (C. acutifolia, C. angustifolia, etc

    Sennet
  • (n.) A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.

    Sennit
  • (n.) A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.

    Sensate
  • (v. t.) To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses

    Sensation
  • (n.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense

    Sense
  • (v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body

    Sensibility
  • (n.) Experience of sensation

    Sensible
  • (a.) Capable of being perceived by the senses
  • (n.) Sensation

    Sensitive
  • (a.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved

    Sensitize
  • (v. t.) To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun

    Sensitometer
  • (n.) An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc

    Sensor
  • (a.) Sensory

    Sensual
  • (a.) Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite

    Sensuous
  • (a.) Highly susceptible to influence through the senses.

    Sent
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Send

    sentential
  • (a.) Comprising sentences

    Sententious
  • (a.) Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims

    Sentient
  • (a.) Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive
  • (n.) One who has the faculty of perception

    Sentiment
  • (a.) A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought

    Sentinel
  • (n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel

    Sentry
  • (n.) A soldier placed on guard

    Senza
  • (prep.) Without


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