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12-letter words starting with sil

  • silas marner — a novel (1861) by George Eliot.
  • silbury hill — the largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe, located near Avebury, England, and dating from 2600 b.c.
  • silent alarm — an alarm that alerts security personnel or the police without the knowledge of the intruder or criminal whose presence triggers it: The silent alarm set off a flashing light at the police station.
  • silhouetting — 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.
  • silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
  • silica glass — a very clear, strong glass produced when pure silica is fused at high temperature, used as in optical instruments
  • silicic acid — any of certain amorphous gelatinous masses, formed when alkaline silicates are treated with acids, which dissociate readily into silica and water.
  • silicicolous — thriving in siliceous soil
  • siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
  • silicon chip — A silicon chip is a very small piece of silicon inside a computer. It has electronic circuits on it and can hold large quantities of information or perform mathematical or logical operations.
  • silicon glen — a collective term for the industries in Scotland associated with information technology, esp those concentrated in the central conurbation between Glasgow and Edinburgh
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
  • silly season — a time of year, usually in midsummer or during a holiday period, characterized by exaggerated news stories, frivolous entertainments, outlandish publicity stunts, etc.: The new movie reminds us that the silly season is here.
  • silver belly — a freshwater eel
  • silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
  • silver bream — a type of ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae
  • silver frost — glaze (def 17).
  • silver jenny — a silvery mojarra, Eucinostomus gula, inhabiting warm waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, along sandy shores.
  • silver maple — a maple, Acer saccharinum, having leaves that are light green above and silvery white beneath.
  • silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
  • silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
  • silver paper — silver foil.
  • silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
  • silver plate — thin coat of silver
  • silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
  • silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
  • silver state — Nevada (used as a nickname).
  • silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
  • silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
  • silvester ii — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
  • silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.

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