10-letter words starting with se
- seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
- second row — the forwards in the second row of a scrum
- second sex — one sex considered as secondary or subordinate in role to the other, especially women in a male-dominated society.
- second-run — designating or of:
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- secondment — the transfer of a military officer or corporate executive to another post for temporary duty.
- secretaire — any writing desk resembling a secretary.
- secretness — secrecy
- sectioning — a part that is cut off or separated.
- sectionize — to form or divide into sections
- secularism — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
- secularize — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- secundines — the inner integument of an ovule.
- securement — the act of securing.
- secureness — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- securiform — (of plants) having the shape of an axe
- securities — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- securitize — to reduce the risk of (a loan) by the use of such securities as eurobonds
- securocrat — a military or police officer who has the power to influence government policy
- sedateness — calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement: a sedate party; a sedate horse.
- sedge wren — a small wren, Cistothorus platensis, of the Americas, inhabiting wet, sedgy meadows.
- sedimental — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- sedimented — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- seducement — an act of seducing
- seducingly — in a seducing manner
- seductress — a woman who seduces.
- sedulously — diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.
- see action — to participate in military combat
- see double — have blurred vision
- see things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- seed coral — coral fragments used for jewelry.
- seed money — capital for the initial stages of a new business or other enterprise, especially for the initial operating costs.
- seed pearl — a pearl weighing less than ¼ grain.
- seed plant — a seed-bearing plant; spermatophyte.
- seed-snipe — any of several South American birds of the family Thinocoridae, related to the shorebirds but superficially resembling quail.
- seemliness — fitting or becoming with respect to propriety or good taste; decent; decorous: Your outburst of rage was hardly seemly.
- seersucker — a plainwoven cotton, rayon, or linen fabric: traditionally a striped cotton with alternate stripes crinkled in the weaving.
- seethingly — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- seferiades — Giorgos Stylianou [yawr-gaws stee-lyah-noo] /ˈyɔr gɔs ˌsti lyɑˈnu/ (Show IPA), (Giorgos Seferis) 1900–71, Greek poet and diplomat: Nobel Prize in literature 1963.
- seger cone — a pyrometric cone composed of clay and salt.
- segmentary — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- segmentate — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- segmenting — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- segmentise — to segmentalize.
- segmentize — to segmentalize.
- segregable — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- segregated — characterized by or practicing racial segregation: a segregated school system.