6-letter words starting with se
- semite — a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- semmes — Raphael, 1809–77, Confederate admiral in the American Civil War.
- semmit — a vest
- semper — a Latin word meaning always
- semper — a Latin word meaning always
- semple — simple; straightforward; humble; honest; lowly; common
- sempre — throughout.
- semtex — a plastic explosive that is easily tractable and almost odorless, used especially by terrorists.
- senary — of or relating to the number six.
- senate — an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- send's — to heave in a swell.
- sendai — a city on NE Honshu, in central Japan.
- sendak — Maurice (Bernard) 1928–2012, U.S. author and illustrator of children's books.
- sendal — a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
- sendee — the person to whom something is sent.
- sender — a person or thing that sends.
- sendit — Systems Engineering for Network Debugging, Integration and Test. A two-year European Commission funded project to produce software tools for distributed applications running on networks of microcontrollers.
- sendup — a mocking parody, esp. when done with seeming gravity; takeoff; spoof
- seneca — Oberon-V
- senega — the dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
- senhor — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- senile — showing a decline or deterioration of physical strength or mental functioning, especially short-term memory and alertness, as a result of old age or disease.
- senior — older or elder (designating the older of two men bearing the same name, as a father whose son is named after him, often written as Sr. or sr. following the name): I'd like to speak with the senior Mr. Hansen, please. I'm privileged to introduce Mr. Edward Andrew Hansen, Sr. Compare junior (def 1).
- seniti — a bronze or brass coin and monetary unit of Tonga, the 100th part of a pa'anga.
- senlac — a hill in SE England: believed by some historians to have been the site of the Battle of Hastings, 1066.
- sennar — a region in the E Sudan between the White and Blue Nile rivers, S of Khartoum: a former kingdom.
- sennet — a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- sennit — a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- senora — a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- senryu — a form of Japanese short poem similar to a haiku, but traditionally on the theme of human nature
- sensei — a karate or judo instructor.
- senses — 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.
- sensor — a mechanical device sensitive to light, temperature, radiation level, or the like, that transmits a signal to a measuring or control instrument.
- sensum — sense datum (def 1).
- sentry — a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- senufo — a member of a group of indigenous people of Ivory Coast, Mali, and Burkina Faso, known for their music and art.
- sepals — one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- sephen — any of several varieties of large stingray, including the Hypolophus sephen, Pastinachus sephen and the Trygon sephen
- sepmag — designating a film or television programme for which the sound is recorded on separate magnetic material and run in synchronism with the picture
- sepsis — local or generalized invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins: dental sepsis; wound sepsis.
- septal — of or relating to a septum.
- septet — any group of seven persons or things.
- septi- — seven
- septic — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- septum — a dividing wall, membrane, or the like, in a plant or animal structure; dissepiment.
- sequel — a literary work, movie, etc., that is complete in itself but continues the narrative of a preceding work.
- sequin — a small shining disk or spangle used for ornamentation, as on women's clothing and accessories or on theatrical costumes.
- serang — Ceram.
- serape — a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- seraph — one of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision. Isa. 6.