11-letter words starting with se
- semi-weekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
- semiamateur — retaining amateur status but receiving prize money or support, as from a sponsor, to cover training expenses.
- semiaquatic — partly aquatic; growing or living in or close to water, or carrying out part of its life cycle in water.
- semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
- semiellipse — a half ellipse, usually one containing both ends of the major axis.
- semifluidic — of the nature of a semifluid; partially fluidic
- semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
- seminomadic — belonging or relating to an ethnic group or people who migrate seasonally and cultivate crops during periods of settlement
- semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
- semipalmate — partially or imperfectly palmate, as a bird's foot; half-webbed.
- semiplastic — imperfectly plastic; in a state between rigidity and plasticity.
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
- semiquinone — any of the class of free radicals formed as intermediates in the oxidation of a hydroquinone to a quinone.
- semiretired — working part time, as for reasons of ill health or advanced age
- semiserious — having some seriousness; partly serious.
- semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
- semiskilled — having or requiring more training and skill than unskilled labor but less than skilled labor.
- semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- semitrailer — Also called semi. a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. Compare full trailer.
- sempervivum — any of various succulent plants belonging to the genus Sempervivum, of the stonecrop family, having leaves in dense basal rosettes and a compact, flat-topped cluster of flowers, and including the houseleek, S. tectorum, and other commonly cultivated species.
- sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- sempstering — the profession of being a tailor
- senate bill — a proposed new law introduced for debate before the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- send around — to put into circulation
- send flying — to dismiss or cause to depart hurriedly
- sending-off — If there is a sending-off during a game of football, a player is told to leave the field by the referee, as a punishment for seriously breaking the rules.
- seneca lake — a lake in W New York: one of the Finger Lakes. 35 miles (56 km) long.
- senectitude — the last stage of life; old age.
- senior prom — a formal dance or gathering of high school students held at the end of the senior year
- senior year — final year of school or college
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- sensational — producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc., especially by exaggerated, superficial, or lurid elements: a sensational novel.
- sense datum — Also called sensum. Psychology. the basic unit of an experience resulting from the stimulation of a sense organ; a stimulus or an object of perception or sensation.
- sense organ — a specialized bodily structure that receives or is sensitive to internal or external stimuli; receptor.
- senselessly — destitute or deprived of sensation; unconscious.
- sensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
- sensitively — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- sensitivity — the state or quality of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
- sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
- sensurround — a sound reproduction system used esp in cinemas, in which low-frequency output causes bodily sensations in the audience, resulting in a feeling of involvement in the film
- sententious — abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
- sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- sentry duty — the duty of serving as a sentry
- septavalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- septembrist — a person who instigated or took part in the September Massacre.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.