4-letter words starting with se
- serf — a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
- serg — Sergeant
- seri — a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- serp — search-engine results page: a web page that is generated by a search engine to display the results of a query or search.
- serr — to press close (together); to form serried ranks
- sert — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- serv — servant
- sess — an impost or tax
- seta — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- seth — the brother and murderer of Osiris, represented as having the form of a donkey or other mammal and regarded as personifying the desert.
- seti — Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; the attempt to detect signals, esp radio waves or light, from an intelligent extraterrestrial source
- setl — SET Language. A very high level language based on sets, designed by Jack Schwartz at the Courant Institute in the early 1970s. It was possibly the first use of list comprehension notation. Data types include sets (unordered collections), tuples (ordered collections) and maps (collections of ordered pairs). Expressions may include quantifiers ('for each' and 'exists'). The first Ada translator was written in SETL. See also ISETL, ProSet, SETL2.
- sets — Set Equation Transformation System. Symbolic manipulation of Boolean equations. "Efficient Ordering of Set Expressions for Symbolic Expansion", R.G. Worrell et al, J ACM 20(3):482-488 (Jul 1973).
- sett — Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- seus — R. Weyrauch et al. Language allowing functions to return multiple values. Implemented but never published. Mentioned in "Evolution of Lisp", G.L. Steele et al, SIGPLAN Notices 28(3):231-270 (March 1993).
- seve — the characteristic flavor and body of a wine.
- sewn — a past participle of sew1 .
- sex- — six
- sext — a sexually explicit digital image, text message, etc., sent to someone usually by cell phone.
- sexy — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.