5-letter words containing s, e
- segre — Emilio [uh-mee-lee-oh,, uh-meel-yoh;; Italian e-mee-lyaw] /əˈmi liˌoʊ,, əˈmil yoʊ;; Italian ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1989, U.S. physicist, born in Italy: Nobel prize 1959.
- segue — to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
- sehri — a meal eaten before sunrise by Muslims during Ramadan
- seine — a river in France, flowing NW through Paris to the English Channel. 480 miles (773 km) long.
- seise — to put into legal possession of (property, etc)
- seism — an earthquake.
- seity — selfhood, personal identity, or something unique to oneself
- seize — to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
- sekos — a sanctuary. the cella of a temple.
- selah — an expression occurring frequently in the Psalms, thought to be a liturgical or musical direction, probably a direction by the leader to raise the voice or perhaps an indication of a pause.
- selby — Hubert, Jr. 1928–2004, U.S. novelist.
- seler — Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- seles — Monica, born 1973, U.S. tennis player, born in Yugoslavia of Hungarian parentage.
- self- — Self- is used to form words which indicate that you do something to yourself or by yourself.
- selfs — a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality: one's own self.
- sella — Zillah.
- selle — a seat or saddle
- selma — a city in central Alabama, on the Alabama River.
- selva — a tropical rain forest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.
- selye — Hans, 1907–82, Canadian physician and medical educator, born in Austria.
- semen — the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- semey — Semipalatinsk.
- semi- — Semi- combines with adjectives and nouns to form other adjectives and nouns that describe someone or something as being partly, but not completely, in a particular state.
- semie — the historical name for a student in the second year at a Scottish university
- semis — semitrailer (def 1).
- sends — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- sengi — a monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, equal to 1/10,000 (.0001) of a zaire.
- senna — any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- senor — a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- sensa — plural of sensum.
- sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
- sensi — a teacher or instructor, esp of karate or judo
- sente — a nickel-brass coin and monetary unit of Lesotho, the 100th part of a loti.
- senti — a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- sents — a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- senvy — mustard (the plant or seed)
- senza — without; omitting
- seoul — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- sepad — to suppose
- sepal — one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- sepia — a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- sepik — a river in N Papua New Guinea, flowing E to the Bismarck Sea. 700 miles (1126 km) long.
- sepoy — (formerly, in India) a native soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, especially of the British.
- seppo — an American
- sept- — septi-1
- sept. — Sept. is a written abbreviation for September.
- septa — plural of septum.
- seqq. — sequentia
- seque — "Seque: A Programming Language for Manipulating Sequences", R.E. Griswold et al, Comp Langs 13(1):13-22 (1988).
- serac — a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.