10-letter words starting with se
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- servicemen — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- servitress — a female servitor
- servomotor — a motor or the like forming part of a servomechanism.
- sesame oil — a yellow oil expressed from the seeds of the sesame, used in cooking, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine, soap, and cosmetics.
- sessionman — a professional musician who does studio recording work but is not a member of an established performing group.
- sestertium — a money of account of ancient Rome, equal to 1000 sesterces.
- sestertius — sesterce.
- set chisel — a chisel having a broad edge at the end of a tapered shaft; used to cut the heads off bolts, rivets, etc.
- set square — a thin flat piece of plastic, metal, etc, in the shape of a right-angled triangle, used in technical drawing
- set theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with relations between sets.
- setiferous — having setae or bristles.
- setigerous — having setae or bristles.
- settecento — the 18th cent. as a period in Italian art and literature
- settee bed — a settee which can be folded out to form a bed; sofabed
- setterwort — the wild plant Helleborus foetidus
- setting-up — the establishment or creation of something
- settle for — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- settlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- setup file — a file needed to set up or install a computer program
- sevastopol — a fortified seaport in the S Crimea, in S Ukraine: famous for its heroic resistance during sieges of 349 days in 1854–55, and 245 days in 1941–42.
- seven seas — the oceans of the world considered as the N and S Pacific, the N and S Atlantic, and the Arctic, Antarctic, and Indian Oceans
- seven-inch — a phonograph record seven inches in diameter, usually having one popular song on each side.
- seven-spot — a playing card the face of which bears seven pips.
- sevenpence — a monetary sum equal to seven pennies
- sevenpenny — noting a nail 2¼ inches (6 cm) long. Symbol: 7d.
- seventieth — next after the sixty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 70.
- severeness — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
- severities — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- sewage gas — gas given off in the digestion of sewage consisting of approximately 66 per cent methane and 34 per cent carbon dioxide
- sewer pill — a ribbed wooden ball for scraping the walls of a sewer through which it floats.
- sewing bee — a small informal social gathering (usually of women) based around the activity of making or mending clothes or other things with a needle and thread
- sewing kit — A sewing kit is a small package containing items, such as needles and thread, that you need to sew something.
- sex addict — a person who is addicted to engaging in sexual activity
- sex appeal — the ability to excite people sexually.
- sex change — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- sex clinic — a health centre where people can go for advice about sexual matters, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, etc
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- sex kitten — a young woman who is sexy and coquettish.
- sex manual — a book which explains how to perform sexual intercourse and other sexual practices
- sex object — a person viewed as being of little interest or merit beyond the potential for providing sexual gratification.
- sex symbol — a celebrity who is held to possess abundant sex appeal.
- sex worker — prostitution.
- sex-crazed — unhealthily obsessed with sexual activity
- sex-linked — (of a gene) located in a sex chromosome.
- sex-ridden — sexual in a rude and unpleasant way
- sexagenary — of or relating to the number 60.
- sexagesima — the second Sunday before Lent.
- sexavalent — hexavalent.