Words starting with S

sessionsA surname.
SesslerA surname.
SessumsA surname.
SesswickA community (civil parish) in Wrexham borough, Wales.
SestakA surname.
sestamibiA derivative of radioactive technetium used in nuclear imaging
sesterA liquid measure for honey and wine, between 24 and 32 ounces.
sesterceSynonym of sestertius.
sestercentenaryOf or relating to a 250th anniversary, or to a span of 250 years.
sestercentennialA 250th anniversary.
sesterterpanylsesterterpenyl
sesterterpeneany terpene formed from five isoprene units, and having twenty-five carbon atoms
sesterterpenoida terpenoid having a C₂₅ skeleton
sesterterpenylA univalent radical derived from sesterterpene.
sestertiumA money of account equal to 1000 sestertii.
sestertiusA large bronze or (rarely) small silver coin minted during the Roman Republic and Empire, valued at two and a half asses (a quarter of a denarius).
sestetA piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
sestettoA sestet/sextet
sestiadOne of six parts.
SestianOf or relating to Sestos.
sestinaA highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines.
sestineA sextain.
SestitoA surname from Italian.
sestoleA sextolet.
sestoletsextuplet
sestonAll particulate matter suspended in bodies of water such as lakes and seas, including plankton, organic detritus, and inorganic material.
sestonicRelated to or composed of seston.
SestosAn ancient city in Thrace.
sestrinAny of a family of proteins that play key roles in regulating aging and metabolism
SestroretskA town on the Karelian Isthmus in Kurortny district, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
sestuorA sestet/sextet.
setTo put (something) down, to rest.
setaA bristle or hair.
setaceousOf, relating to, or resembling a seta or bristle; bristly.
setaceouslyIn a setaceous manner.
SetagayaOne of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan.
setalOf, pertaining to, or having setae
setaphyteAny of the plants of the clade Setaphyta.
setarA Persian musical instrument.
setastineA particular antihistamine drug.
setationA growth or covering of setae
SetauketA hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States.
setazindolAn anorectic drug.
setbackAn obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
setboltAn iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together in shipbuilding.
setdownThe act of setting down something or someone.
SetebeleThe Ndebele language.
SetebosA fictional deity worshipped by Caliban and his mother Sycorax in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
SetebosianOf or relating to the Shakespearean character Setebos.
seterA natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
SetetA southwest Asiatic bedouin; someone from Setet
setfastA tumour on a horse's back.
SetfordA surname
SethThe third son of Adam and Eve.
setherasix in Cumbrian sheep counting
SethiA surname.
SethianA member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect who venerated the Biblical Seth, third son of Adam and Eve, depicted in their creation myths as a divine incarnation.
SethianismThe beliefs and practices of the Sethians.
SethicOf or relating to the biblical Seth.
SethiteA descendant of the Biblical Seth.
sethoodThe state of being a set.
sethoxydimThe herbicide (5RS)-2-[(EZ)-1-(ethoxyimino)butyl]-5-[(2RS)-2-(ethylthio)propyl]-3-hydroxycyclohex-2-en-1-one.
SETIA language of Papua New Guinea.
SetianOf or relating to the Egyptian god Set
SetianismThe beliefs and practices of the Setians.
SetienA surname.
setiferousHaving bristles; bristly.
setiformHaving the shape or structure of bristles.
setigerAn annelid having setae; a chaetopod.
setigerousCovered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae.
setiparousProducing setae.
setiptilineA tetracyclic antidepressant.
setiremeAn oar-like swimming leg of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.
setlessWithout a set (in multiple meanigs)
setlessnessAbsence of a set.
SetliffA surname.
setlikeResembling or characteristic of a theatrical set.
setlineSynonym of trotline.
setlistA list of the songs to be played by a particular band or musical act for a particular show or tour.
setmakerA manufacturer of television sets.
setmarkA special value used on computer tape to separate sets of files.
setmelanotideAn antiobesity drug.
SetmurthyA civil parish (served by Embleton and District Parish Council) in Allerdale borough, Cumbria, England.
setnessThe quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy.
SetoA surname.
SetogawaA surname from Japanese.
setogenesisThe formation of new setae
SetoguchiA surname from Japanese.
setoidA set together with an equivalence relation.
setokaA cultivar of tangor (tangerine/orange hybrid, Citrus reticulata × Citrus sinensis).
SetomaaA region in southeastern Estonia.
setonA few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue so formed.
setoperoneA compound that is a ligand to the 5-HT_(2A) receptor.
setoseThickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
setoselyIn a setose manner.
setosityThe quality of being setous.
SetouchiRegion of Japan's inland sea and coastal areas roundabout
setoussetose
setoutan outset
setoverA form of canal lockage in which the towboat and one or more barges are separated from the other barges and brought alongside them, as a unit, in the lock chamber.
setpointThe command signal or value which is fed into a controller to establish the target or desired position or state of the controlled device or process.
setrobuvirAn experimental drug for the treatment of hepatitis C.
setsSet theory.
SetserA surname.
SetsubunA Japanese festival on the last day before spring.
SetsukoA female given name from Japanese.
SetswanaA language spoken widely in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana and South Africa in the Northern Cape, the central and western Free State and in the North West province, and also, to a lesser extent, in Namibia, also known as Tswana.
settThe system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
settabilityThe state or condition of being settable.
settableCapable of being set.
SetteA surname.
setteeA long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
SettegastA surname from German.
setterA typesetter.
SetterfieldA surname.
setterlikeResembling or characteristic of a setter (breed of dog).
setterwortThe bear's-foot (Helleborus foetidus).
settingThe time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
settinglessWithout a setting.
SettlaSynonym of Settler Swahili (“a pidgin language”).
settleTo determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
settleabilityThe quality of being settleable.
settleableThat can settle or be settled.
settledComfortable and at ease, especially after a period of change or unrest.
settledlyIn a settled manner.
settlednessThe quality or state of being settled.
settlementThe act of settling.
settlementationSettlement, especially in an area that has no official incorporation or legal claim made on it.
SettlemireA surname from German.
SettlemyreA surname.
settlerSomeone who settles in a new location; especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place.
settlerdomThe realm or sphere of settlers.
settlerhoodThe state or condition of being a settler.
settlerismThe means or process of converting desolate lands into settlements.
settleristPromoting emigration as a settler.
settleristicRelated to or characterized by settlerism
settlingThe act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
settlorA person who settles property on express trust for the benefit of beneficiaries.
SettringtonA village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district and historically in the East Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE8370).
SettyA surname from Telugu.
setulaA small, short hair or bristle; a small seta
setulateHaving setulae
setuleA setula.
setuliformResembling a setula.
setuloseHaving small bristles or setae.
setumahA closed parashah (a section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh), set apart by a space in the middle of the line of text, with the previous portion ending before the space, and the next portion starting after it.
setupEquipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
setwallThe plant valerian.
setwiseIn terms of a set or sets.
setworkSynonym of setworks (“sawmill mechanism that positions the log for the next cut”).

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