9-letter words starting with si
- siliceous — containing, consisting of, or resembling silica.
- silicious — containing, consisting of, or resembling silica.
- silicosis — a disease of the lungs caused by the inhaling of siliceous particles, as by stonecutters.
- silicotic — a person suffering from silicosis
- siliquose — bearing siliques.
- silk road — ancient trade route extending from China to the Mediterranean
- silk tree — a tree, Albizia julibrissin, of the legume family, native to Asia, having pinnate leaves and plumelike pink flowers and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- silkaline — a soft, thin cotton fabric with a smooth finish, for curtains, bedspreads, garment linings, etc.
- silkoline — a silk-like fabric
- silky oak — any of several trees of the Australian genus Grevillea, esp G. robusta, having divided leaves, smooth glossy wood, and showy clusters of orange, red, or white flowers: cultivated in the tropics as shade trees: family Proteaceae
- sillanpaa — Frans Eemil [frahns e-mil] /frɑns ˈɛ mɪl/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, Finnish author: Nobel prize 1939.
- silliness — weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
- sillyweed — marijuana.
- siltation — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- siltstone — a very fine-grained sandstone, mainly consolidated silt.
- silvering — 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.
- silverius — Saint, died a.d. 537, pope 536–37.
- silverize — to cover, plate, or treat with silver.
- silvertip — grizzly bear.
- silvester — Sylvester II.
- silymarin — an antioxidant flavonoid found in milk thistle
- simarouba — any tropical American tree belonging to the genus Simaruba, of the quassia family, having pinnate leaves, a fleshy fruit, and a root whose bark contains an appetite stimulant.
- simeonite — a member of the Israelite tribe of Simeon.
- similarly — having a likeness or resemblance, especially in a general way: two similar houses.
- simionato — Giulietta [joo-lyet-tah] /dʒuˈlyɛt tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–2010, Italian mezzo-soprano.
- simmental — one of a large breed of cattle, yellowish-brown to red and white, originally of Switzerland, used for milk and beef and as a draft animal.
- simmering — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
- simonides — 556?–468? b.c, Greek poet.
- simonists — the making of profit out of sacred things.
- simpatico — congenial or like-minded; likable: I find our new neighbor simpatico in every respect.
- simpering — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
- simplesse — simpleness
- simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
- simpliste — someone who tends to over-simplify
- simscript — A free-form, English-like general-purpose simulation language produced by Harry Markowitz et al of Rand Corp in 1963. It was implemented as a Fortran preprocessor on IBM 7090 and was designed for large discrete simulations. It influenced Simula. Later versions included SIMSCRIPT I.5 and SIMSCRIPT II.5.
- simula 67 — (language) A version of SIMULA I? Simula a.s., Postboks 4403 - Torshov, N-0402 Oslo 4, Norway, versions for almost every computer. E-mail: Henry Islo <[email protected]>.
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulated — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- sincelejo — a city in Sucre department, NW Colombia.
- sincerely — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- sincerest — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- sincerity — freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness.
- sine wave — a periodic oscillation, as simple harmonic motion, having the same geometric representation as a sine function.
- sinfjotli — the son of Signy by her brother Sigmund.
- sing sing — the state prison at Ossining, New York.
- sing-song — verse, or a piece of verse, that is monotonously jingly in rhythm and pattern of pitch.
- singalong — group singing session