English words: S

2316 words under S; 801–900 on this page.

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• si noun (si — music note); abbreviation (SI); Spanish/Italian…
  The seventh note of the do-re-mi scale in some countries, now usually called «ti» in English (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti).
• siamang noun (a siamang, siamangs)
  A large black gibbon (a kind of small ape) that lives in the rainforests of Malaysia, Thailand and Sumatra in Indonesia, famous for its…
• sib noun (a sib, sibs) — short form
  «Sib» is a short form of «sibling», a brother or sister.
• siberian adjective (Siberian); noun (a Siberian, Siberians)
  Siberian means from or about Siberia, the huge, very cold northern part of Russia that stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific…
• sibilant adjectiveJewish tradition
  Making a hissing sound like "s" or "sh".
• sibling noun (a sibling, siblings)
  A sibling is a brother or sister.
• sibyl noun (sibyls)
  A sibyl is, in old stories, a woman who was believed to be able to foretell the future.
• sibylline adjective (no comparative form)
  Sibylline means of or like a sibyl; mysterious and hard to understand, as if giving a hidden prophecy.
• sick adjective (sick, sicker, sickest); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sick means ill, not healthy.
• sicken verb (sicken, sickens, sickened, sickening)
  To make someone feel shocked, disgusted or very upset, as if they might be sick.
• sickle noun (a sickle, sickles); adjective (sickle-shaped)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A farm tool with a short handle and a curved, C-shaped blade, used for cutting grass, grain or corn by hand.
• sickly adjective (sickly, sicklier, sickliest)
  Often ill, weak or not healthy.
• sickness noun (sickness, uncountable; a sickness, sicknesses)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sickness is being ill or unwell.
• side noun, verb, adjective (side, sides, sided)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A side is one of the straight lines that make a flat shape.
• sideline noun (a sideline, sidelines); verb…
  The sidelines are the lines along the long sides of a sports pitch, and the area just outside them.
• sidestroke noun (sidestroke — uncountable; a sidestroke)
  A way of swimming while lying on your side, pushing with a scissor kick and moving your arms alternately under the water.
• sidewalk noun (a sidewalk, sidewalks)
  A path at the side of a road where people walk; British and Australian «pavement» or «footpath».
• sideways adverb; adjective (sideways)
  Sideways means to the side, or moving with one side first.
• sidewinder noun (a sidewinder, sidewinders)
  A small rattlesnake from the deserts of the south-western USA and Mexico that moves sideways by throwing its body in loops across the sand.
• sidle verb (sidle, sidles, sidled, sidling)
  To sidle is to walk slowly and sideways, moving quietly and a little shyly, often to avoid notice.
• siege noun (a siege, sieges); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A siege is when an army surrounds a town or castle and stops food and help getting in, so the people inside will give up.
• sienna noun, uncountable (sienna); adjective (sienna)
  A brownish-yellow (raw sienna) or reddish-brown (burnt sienna) earth colour used in paints and crayons.
• sieve noun (sieve, sieves); verb (sieve, sieves, sieved, sieving)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A sieve is a kitchen tool with a fine net or many small holes, used to separate small bits from big bits, or solids from liquid.
• sift verb (sift, sifts, sifted, sifting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To shake flour or sand through a sieve to break up lumps or remove bits.
• sigh verb (sigh, sighs, sighed, sighing); noun (a sigh, sighs)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To sigh is to breathe out slowly and loudly, often because you are tired, sad, bored or relieved.
• sight noun (sight, sights; a sight); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sight is the ability to see; one of the five senses.
• sighting noun (a sighting, sightings); verb form…
  A sighting is an occasion when someone sees something rare, unusual or wanted: a bird, a whale, a UFO or a missing person.
• sightless adjective (no comparative form)
  Sightless means unable to see; blind.
• sigma noun (sigma, sigmas); adjective (sigma — slang)
  The eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, written Σ (capital) and σ or ς (small).
• sign noun (sign, signs); verb (sign, signs, signed, signing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A sign is a board with words or pictures that tells you something, like a road sign or a shop sign.
• signal noun (a signal, signals); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A signal is a sound, light, sign or movement that gives a message or warning: a traffic signal, a hand signal.
• signalling verb form…
  Present participle of «signal»: giving a sign, sound or light to send a message.
• signally adverb (signal, signals, signalled; signally)
  Signally means in a striking, remarkable way, so that it is clearly noticed.
• signatory noun (a signatory, signatories); adjective (signatory)
  A signatory is a person, group or country that has signed an official agreement, contract or treaty.
• signature noun (a signature, signatures)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A signature is your name written in your own special way, to show you agree to or wrote something.
• signboard noun (signboards)
  A signboard is a flat board with words or a picture on it, put up outside a shop or inn to show what is sold or where it is.
• signer noun (a signer, signers)
  A signer is a person who signs their name on something, like a letter, card or important document.
• signet nounJewish tradition
  A signet is a small seal, often on a ring, pressed into clay or wax to mark a document as yours.
• significance noun (significance)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Significance is how important or meaningful something is.
• significant adjective (significant, more significant)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Important; worth noticing.
• significantly adverbJewish tradition
  In a way that is important or large enough to matter.
• signification noun (signification, significations)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Signification is the meaning of a word, sign or symbol.
• signified verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Signified is the past form of signify: it means showed, meant or stood for.
• signify verb (signify, signifies, signified, signifying)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To be a sign of something; to mean something (dark clouds signify rain).
• signpost noun (a signpost, signposts); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A signpost is a post at the side of a road or path with signs that show the way and how far it is to places.
• sika noun (a sika, sika or sikas; sika deer)
  A sika is a kind of deer that came from East Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan); it is small to medium-sized with a reddish-brown coat with white…
• sikh noun (a Sikh, Sikhs); adjective (Sikh)
  A Sikh is a person who follows Sikhism, a religion that began in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.
• sikhism noun (Sikhism, uncountable)
  Sikhism is a religion founded in the Punjab region of India by Guru Nanak; Sikhs believe in one God and follow the teachings of the ten…
• silage noun (silage — uncountable)
  Grass, maize or other green crops that are cut, packed tightly and kept without air so they ferment, to feed cows and sheep in winter.
• silence noun (silence, silences); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Silence is when there is no sound at all.
• silent adjective (silent, more silent, most silent)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Silent means making no sound at all; completely quiet.
• silently adverb (silently)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Without making any sound; quietly.
• silhouette noun (a silhouette, silhouettes); verb…
  A silhouette is the dark shape or outline of someone or something seen against a brighter background, like a person standing in front of a…
• silicate noun (a silicate, silicates; silicate as a substance)
  A mineral or compound made of silicon and oxygen, often with metals; most rocks, sand and clay are made of silicates.
• silicon noun (silicon — uncountable)
  Silicon is a chemical element (symbol Si), a grey shiny solid that is the main part of sand and many rocks.
• silk noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A soft, smooth, shiny cloth made from threads spun by silkworms.
• silken adjective (silken)
  Made of silk.
• silkworm noun (a silkworm, silkworms)
  A silkworm is the caterpillar of the silk moth, which spins a cocoon of fine silk thread; people use this thread to make silk cloth.
• silky adjective (silky, silkier, silkiest)
  Smooth, soft and shiny, like silk.
• sill noun (a sill, sills)
  A sill is the flat shelf at the bottom of a window, inside or outside.
• silliness noun (silliness — uncountable)
  Being silly: behaving in a foolish, funny or not serious way.
• silly adjective (silly, sillier, silliest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Silly means funny in a foolish way: a silly hat.
• silt noun (silt, uncountable); verb (silt up)
  Fine sand, mud and soil carried by flowing water and left at the bottom of rivers, lakes or harbours.
• silver noun (silver — uncountable); adjective (silver); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Silver is a shiny, grey-white precious metal used for jewellery, coins and cutlery.
• silverback noun (a silverback, silverbacks)
  A silverback is a grown-up male gorilla, the leader of a gorilla family, named after the silvery-grey hair on his back.
• silverfish noun (a silverfish, silverfish)
  A silverfish is a small, shiny, silver-grey insect with no wings that wriggles like a fish and lives in damp corners of houses.
• silversmith nounJewish tradition
  A craftsman who makes things out of silver.
• silvery adjective (silvery, more silvery, most silvery)
  Silvery means shiny and grey-white, like silver.
• sima noun (sima — geology); name (Sima)
  The lower layer of the Earth's crust, under the oceans and below the continents, made of heavy rock rich in silicon and magnesium (si + ma).
• simeon nounJewish tradition
  Simeon is a man's name: the second son of Jacob and Leah, and also the tribe that came from him.
• similar adjective (similar, more similar, most similar)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Almost the same as something else, but not exactly.
• similarity nounJewish tradition
  Similarity is a way in which two things are alike.
• similarly adverbJewish tradition
  In the same way; likewise.
• simile noun (a simile, similes)
  A simile is a way of describing something by comparing it to something else using «like» or «as»: «as brave as a lion», «she ran like the…
• similitude nounJewish tradition
  A similitude is a likeness or form, an old word for something that resembles another thing.
• simmer verb (simmer, simmers, simmered, simmering); noun…
  To cook something gently in liquid just below boiling, with small bubbles.
• simmering verb (simmer, simmers, simmered, simmering — -ing form)…
  Cooking gently in liquid that is just below boiling, with small bubbles.
• simple adjective (simple, simpler, simplest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Simple means easy to understand or do, not complicated.
• simplex adjective (simplex); noun…
  Simple, made of one part; not compound.
• simplicity noun (simplicity — usually uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Being simple and easy to understand or do.
• simplification noun (a simplification, simplifications; also uncountable)
  The act of making something simpler or easier to understand or do.
• simplify verb (simplify, simplifies, simplified, simplifying)
  To simplify something is to make it simpler or easier to understand or do.
• simply adverb (simply)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Simply means in an easy or plain way: explain it simply.
• simulated adjective (simulated); past form of the verb simulate…
  Made to look or feel real, but not real; imitation: simulated leather, a simulated fire drill.
• simulation noun (a simulation, simulations; simulation, uncountable)
  A simulation is a copy of a real situation, made on a computer or with models, so that people can study it or practise safely.
• simulator noun (a simulator, simulators)
  A machine or computer program that copies real conditions so people can practise or test something safely, for example a flight simulator.
• simultaneous adjective (simultaneous)
  Happening or done at exactly the same time: simultaneous explosions.
• simultaneously adverb (from the adjective «simultaneous»)
  At exactly the same time.
• sin noun (a sin, sins; sin — uncountable); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  In religion, an act that breaks God's law or a religious rule.
• sincere adjective (sincere, sincerer, sincerest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Honest and true; meaning what you say or feel.
• sincerely adverb (sincerely)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sincerely means honestly and truly, meaning what you say, as in «I sincerely hope you feel better».
• sincerity noun (sincerity — uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Being honest and meaning what you say or feel; not pretending.
• sind nounJewish tradition
  "Sind" is German for "are.".
• sinew noun (a sinew, sinews)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A tendon: a tough cord in the body that joins a muscle to a bone.
• sinful adjective (sinful)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Wrong according to God's law or religious teaching; full of sin.
• sing verb (sing, sings, sang, singing, sung)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To sing means to make music with your voice, using words or tunes.
• singer noun (a singer, singers)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A singer is a person who sings, especially as a job or very well.
• singing noun (singing, uncountable); verb form of sing…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Singing is making musical sounds with your voice, with words or a tune.
• single adjective, noun (single, singles)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Single means only one, not two or more.
• singly adverb (singly)
  Singly means one at a time, or one by one, not in a group.

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