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10-letter words starting with si

  • sigillarid — a fossilized, tree-like plant of the genus Sigillaria
  • sign-posts — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
  • signal box — a railway signal tower.
  • signal red — pimento (def 3).
  • signalling — the action of generating or transmitting signals
  • signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
  • signifiant — signifier (def 2).
  • signifying — sounding1 (def 4)
  • signorelli — Luca [loo-kah] /ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), c1445–1523, Italian painter.
  • signposted — A place or route that is signposted has signposts beside the road to show the way.
  • silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
  • silentiary — someone who keeps silence in court
  • silhouette — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • silica gel — a highly adsorbent gelatinous form of silica, used chiefly as a dehumidifying and dehydrating agent.
  • siliculose — bearing silicles.
  • silk gland — any of several glands, as in various insects and spiders, that secrete a viscid protein substance which hardens into silk on contact with air.
  • silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
  • silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
  • silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
  • silver age — Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
  • silver fir — a coniferous tree, Abies alba, native to Europe, the young branches of which are covered with grayish fuzz.
  • silver fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is black with silver-gray ends on the longer hairs.
  • silver-eye — white-eye.
  • silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
  • silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
  • silverbill — a species of finch of the genus Munia
  • silverfish — a white or silvery goldfish, Carassius auratus.
  • silverhorn — any of various usually darkish caddis flies of the family Leptoceridae, characterized by very long pale antennae. The larvae are a favourite food of trout
  • silverlike — Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
  • silverling — a shekel or small silver coin
  • silverside — Chiefly British. a rump roast of beef, especially one taken from the crown of the rump.
  • silverskin — the inner skin of a coffee bean
  • silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
  • silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, etc.
  • silverware — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
  • silverweed — a plant, Potentilla anserina, of the rose family, the leaves of which have a silvery pubescence on the underside.
  • silverwork — fine or decorative work executed in silver.
  • simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
  • similarity — the state of being similar; likeness; resemblance.
  • similative — implying likeness
  • similitude — likeness; resemblance: a similitude of habits.
  • simillimum — (in homeopathy) the remedy most likely to restore to health
  • simmer dim — the night-long twilight found in the Northern Isles around midsummer
  • simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
  • simon says — a children's game in which all players must imitate only those movements and commands of a leader that are preceded by the words “Simon says.”.
  • simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
  • simoniacal — a person who practices simony.
  • simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
  • simple vow — a public vow taken by a religious, under which property may be retained and marriage, though held to be illicit, is valid under canon law.
  • simpleness — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
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