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8-letter words starting with sil

  • 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.
  • silicone — any of a number of polymers containing alternate silicon and oxygen atoms, as (–Si–O–Si–O–) n, whose properties are determined by the organic groups attached to the silicon atoms, and that are fluid, resinous, rubbery, extremely stable in high temperatures, and water-repellent: used as adhesives, lubricants, and hydraulic oils and in electrical insulation, cosmetics, etc.
  • silicula — a short broad siliqua, occurring in such cruciferous plants as honesty and shepherd's-purse
  • siliwood — (jargon)   (Or "Hollywired") The coming convergence of film, interactive TV and computers.
  • silk hat — a tall, cylindrical, black hat covered with silk plush, worn by men for formal dress. Compare beaver1 (def 4), opera hat, top hat.
  • silk oak — any of several Australian trees of the genus Grevillea, especially G. robusta, having feathery, fernlike leaves and showy orange or yellow flowers, grown as a street tree in Florida and California.
  • silktail — the waxwing
  • silkweed — any milkweed, the pods of which contain a silky down.
  • silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
  • sillabub — syllabub.
  • silladar — an Indian irregular cavalryman
  • sillcock — hosecock.
  • silliest — weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
  • sillimanBenjamin, 1779–1864, U.S. scientist and educator.
  • sillitoe — Alan. 1928–2010, British novelist. His best-known works include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)
  • siloxane — any of the class of compounds containing the structural unit R 2 SiO, where R is an organic group or hydrogen.
  • silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
  • silurian — of or relating to the Silures or their country.
  • silurist — a member of the ancient Silurian tribe
  • siluroid — a freshwater fish of the family Siluridae
  • silvanus — the god of forests and uncultivated land, later worshiped under three aspects, as the protector of the house, of the herds, and of the boundaries of the farm.
  • silvassa — a union territory of India, located between Gujarat and Maharashtra, N of Mumbai. 190 sq. mi. (491 sq. km). Capital: Silvassa.
  • silvatic — of or relating to the forest; sylvan
  • silvered — consisting of, made of, or plated with silver.
  • silverly — with a silvery appearance or sound.
  • silvical — relating to silvics

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