8-letter words starting with si
- sideslip — to slip to one side.
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
- sidespin — a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate in course about its vertical axis.
- sidestep — to step to one side.
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewall — the part of a pneumatic tire between the edge of the tread and the rim of the wheel.
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- sideways — with a side foremost.
- sidewind — to move like a sidewinder.
- sidewise — sideways
- sidonian — a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- siegbahn — Karl Manne Georg [kahrl mahn-nuh yey-awr-yuh] /kɑrl ˈmɑn nə ˈyeɪ ɔr yə/ (Show IPA), 1886–1978, Swedish physicist: Nobel prize 1924.
- sierozem — any of a group of calcareous, brownish gray soils based in a carbonate or hardpan layer, found in arid climates.
- siffleur — a male professional whistler
- siftings — something sifted: siftings of flour.
- sigatoka — a disease of bananas, characterized by discolored spots on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Mycosphaerella musicola.
- sighless — without uttering a sigh
- sighlike — resembling a sigh
- sighting — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- sightsee — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- sighyper — Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia of the SGML Users' Group.
- sigmatic — characterized by a Greek letter sigma or a Roman S added to a word or stem
- sign for — acknowledge receipt
- sign off — a token; indication.
- sign out — a token; indication.
- sign-off — the act or fact of signing off.
- sign-out — an act, instance, or time of signing out.
- signable — suitable for signing, as in being satisfactory, appropriate, or complete: a signable legislative bill.
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signally — conspicuously; notably.
- signieur — a lord
- signifie — (in linguistics) the signified.
- signiory — seigniory.
- signless — without a sign or sign-board
- signoret — Simone (simɔ̃), original name Simone Kaminker. 1921–85, French stage and film actress, whose films include La Ronde (1950), Casque d'Or (1952), Room at the Top (1958), and Ship of Fools (1965): married the actor and singer Yves Montand (1921–91)
- signoria — the government of an Italian city-state
- signpost — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
- sikeston — a city in SE Missouri.
- sikorski — Władysław (ˈvlædɪslæf). 1881–1943, Polish general and statesman: prime minister (1922–23) and prime minister of the Polish government in exile during World War II: died in an air crash
- sikorsky — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1889–1972, U.S. aeronautical engineer, born in Russia.
- silastic — a flexible inert silicone rubber, used esp in prosthetic medicine
- silenced — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- silencer — a person or thing that silences.
- silently — making no sound; quiet; still: a silent motor.
- silesian — a region in central Europe along both banks of the upper Oder River, mainly in SW Poland and the N Czech Republic: formerly divided between Germany (which had the largest portion), Poland, and Czechoslovakia; by provision of the Potsdam agreement 1945, the greater part of German Silesia came under Polish administration; rich deposits of coal, iron, and other minerals.
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- silicide — a compound of two elements, one of which is silicon.
- silicify — to convert or be converted into silica
- silicium — silicon.