9-letter words starting with si
- sidetable — a small table at the side of a room
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- sidewalks — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewards — towards one side
- sidewheel — either of a pair of paddle wheels on the sides of a vessel.
- sidi ifni — a seaport in W Morocco: former capital of Ifni.
- sidlingly — in the manner of a sidle
- sieg heil — hail to victory: a Nazi salute, often accompanied by the raising of the right arm
- siegfried — (in the Nibelungenlied) the son of Sigmund and Sieglinde and the husband of Kriemhild. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of the Nibelungs, wins Brünnhilde for Gunther, and is finally killed by Hagen at the behest of Brünnhilde, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to the Sigurd of the Volsunga Saga. Compare Brünnhilde.
- sieglinde — (in the Nibelungenlied) the wife of Sigmund and mother of Siegfried.
- siem reap — a city in NW Cambodia, near Angkor.
- siffleuse — a female professional whistler
- siftingly — by a sifting process
- sighingly — accompanied by sighing
- sight gag — a comic effect produced by visual means rather than by spoken lines, as in a play or motion picture.
- sighthole — a hole, as on a quadrant, through which to see or to sight.
- sightless — unable to see; blind.
- sightline — any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater, stadium, etc.: Some of the sightlines are blocked by columns.
- sightseer — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- sightsman — a tourist guide
- sigillate — (of a ceramic object) having stamped decorations.
- sigismund — 1368–1437, Holy Roman emperor 1411–37.
- sigmatism — defective pronunciation of sibilant sounds.
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- sigmoidal — shaped like the letter C.
- sign away — a token; indication.
- sign over — a token; indication.
- sign test — a statistical test used to analyse the direction of differences of scores between the same or matched pairs of subjects under two experimental conditions
- signaling — 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.
- signalize — to make notable or conspicuous.
- signalled — 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.
- signaller — 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.
- signalman — a person whose occupation or duty is signaling, as on a railroad or in the army.
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- signboard — a board bearing a sign.
- signeurie — seniority
- significs — semantics (def 2).
- signified — the thing or concept denoted by a sign.
- signifier — a person or thing that signifies.
- signifies — (in linguistics) the signified.
- signore's — a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a married woman, either used separately or prefixed to the name.
- signorial — relating to a signoria
- signorina — a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a girl or unmarried woman, either used separately or prefixed to the name.
- signorino — a conventional Italian title of respect for a young man.
- sigrdrifa — a Valkyrie who, for disobedience to Odin, sleeps within a circle of fire until awakened by Sigurd.
- sigsberen — Archaic. a series of small hills.
- sikkimese — a native or inhabitant of Sikkim.
- silencing — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- silicates — 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.