7-letter words containing si
- insinew — to connect or strengthen, as with sinews
- insipid — without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- insists — to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.: He insists on checking every shipment.
- isidium — a coralloid outgrowth from the thallus in certain lichens.
- isidora — a female given name.
- isidore — a male given name.
- isindex — (web) An HTML tag which tells the browser to display a text entry box on the current page. Any text entered in the box by the user is appended as a URL-encoded query string to the current URL and sent to the server using a GET method. This is a simple way of making a website searchable or allowing other kinds of simple user input. It relies on the server mapping the query URL to an appropriate process, probably depending on the page in which the ISINDEX appeared. More complex input can be catered for using the FORM tag, or Java.
- jacksie — (slang, UK) alternative spelling of jacksy.
- jessica — a female given name, form of Jesse.
- jiamusi — a city in E Heilongjiang province, in NE China.
- jussive — (especially in Semitic languages) expressing a mild command.
- kassite — a member of an ancient people related to the Elamites, who ruled Babylonia from c1650 to c1100 b.c.
- katsina — Alternative form of kachina.
- kenosis — the doctrine that Christ relinquished His divine attributes so as to experience human suffering.
- ketosis — the accumulation of excessive ketones in the body, as in diabetic acidosis.
- khalasi — An Indian worker at a port or dockyard, traditionally employed in pulling vessels out of the water for maintenance and repair and returning them to the water afterwards.
- khamsin — a hot southerly wind, varying from southeast to southwest, that blows regularly in Egypt and over the Red Sea for about 50 days, commencing about the middle of March.
- kiangsi — Jiangxi.
- kinesic — the study of body movements, gestures, facial expressions, etc., as a means of communication.
- kinesis — the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus, as light.
- kissies — Plural form of kissy.
- kissing — to touch or press with the lips slightly pursed, and then often to part them and to emit a smacking sound, in an expression of affection, love, greeting, reverence, etc.: He kissed his son on the cheek.
- kolbasi — kielbasa
- krypsis — the idea that Christ made secret use of his divine attributes
- kutaisi — a city in the W Georgian Republic in Europe.
- kwangsi — Guangxi
- lansing — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- lapsing — Present participle of lapse.
- lassies — Plural form of lassie.
- leasing — a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- leeside — The side of something that provides the most shelter from some prevailing force such as wind, rain, waves, etc.
- legside — the part of a the field to the left of a right-handed batsman as he faces the bowler
- lensing — a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lepsius — Karl Richard [kahrl rikh-ahrt] /kɑrl ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1810–84, German philologist and Egyptologist.
- les six — a group of six young composers in France, who from about 1916 formed a temporary association as a result of interest in neoclassicism and in the music of Satie and the poetry of Cocteau. Its members were Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, and Germaine Tailleferre
- lesions — Plural form of lesion.
- lessing — Doris (May) 1919–2013, British novelist in Africa; born in Persia; Nobel Prize in Literature 2007.
- lewisia — any of various perennial herbs of the genus Lewisia of the family Portulacaceae, which are native to western North America and which have pink or white flowers
- liassic — of or pertaining to the Lias series
- limosis — an excessive hunger or appetite caused by disease
- lisieux — a town in NW France: Roman Catholic pilgrimage centre, for its shrine of St Thérèse, who lived there. Pop: 22 109 (2006)
- loessic — relating to or consisting of loess
- loiasis — infestation with the parasitic eye worm, Loa loa, of the subcutaneous tissues and orbit: endemic in West Africa.
- loosies — cigarettes sold individually
- loosing — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- losings — causing or suffering loss.
- lossier — Comparative form of lossy.
- lossily — In a lossy way.
- lousier — Comparative form of lousy.
- lousily — In a lousy manner, poorly or vilely.