secularizationThe transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious") values and secular institutions.
securigeraAny leguminous flowering plant of the genus Securigera, known vernacularly alongside members of the genus Coronilla (from which this genus was separated) as crownvetches.
securinineAn alkaloid found in the tree Margaritaria discoidea
securitanOne who feels secure, but who may in fact not be.
securitarianWith security as an absolute priority; inordinately obsessed with security.
SecuritateThe official state security and secret police force of Romania under Communist rule.
securiteA high explosive in the form of a yellowish powder.
securitiserCommonwealth standard spelling of securitizer.
securitizationThe fact or process of securitizing assets; the conversion of loans into securities, usually in order to sell them on to other investors.
securitizeTo convert assets or claims (typically outstanding loans or other receivables) to securities, usually by selling them with a discount to a financial intermediary, which pools them with other similar assets and sells further as securities to third-party investors.
securonomicsA modern form of supply-side economics inspired by US president Joe Biden's economic policy, particularly his Inflation Reduction Act, and based on the belief that globalisation has failed to achieve its stated aims.
sedanAn enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair.
SedangAn ephemeral political entity established in the late the 19th century by a French adventurer, Charles-Marie David de Mayréna, in part of what is present-day Vietnam, incorporating various local tribes.
sedanolideOne of the chemical constituents in celery oil.
sedateOf a person or animal, or their behaviour: calm and composed (often in a dignified manner), and avoiding or unaffected by activity or excitement.
sedatelyCalmly, without excessive emotion or force; in a composed manner.
sedatenessThe state or quality of being sedate; calmness of mind, manner, or countenance
sedationThe act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.
sedationistOne who administers sedatives to a patient.
sedativeAn agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.
SedelsbergA village in Saterland, Lower Saxony, Germany.
sedenionA 16-dimensional nonalternative extension of an octonion with one real part and 15 imaginary parts, each a real multiple of a distinct, independent square root of −1.
sedentarinessThe habit of spending most of one's time physically at rest, sitting or lying down, etc. (Includes circumstances of being mentally busy but not physically busy).
sedentarizationThe settling of a nomadic population; the transition from a nomadic lifestyle to a sedentary one.
sedentarizeto settle a nomadic population through sedentism
sedentaryNot moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
sedentismThe practice of living in one place for a long time.
sedeprivationismThe school of thought, in Roman Catholicism, that the popes of the new religion of Vatican II council have been defective or deprived of the infallible teaching authority of the office because of their Modernist intent and remain in pope elect status until rencanting the innovations.
sederThe ceremonial meal held on the first night or first two nights of Passover.
sederholmiteA hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing nickel and selenium.
sederuntA formal meeting, especially of a judicial or ecclesiastical body.
sedesThe position a word or phrase occupies within the meter.
sedevacantismThe belief, held by a minority of Christians claiming to be traditionalist Catholics, that the present occupant of the Holy See is not the true pope and that the see has been vacant since the 1960s.