Nouns

septuagesima

noun

the 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter)

sequoya

noun

Cherokee who created a notation for writing the Cherokee lan...

seraglio

noun

living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female...

serail

noun

living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female...

serape

noun

a long brightly colored shawl; worn mainly by Mexican men

sericterium

noun

silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) o...

sericulture

noun

raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk

seriema

noun

Argentinian Cariama

serif

noun

a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character

serigraph

noun

a print made using a stencil process in which an image or de...

serigraphy

noun

the act of making a print by the silkscreen method

serin

noun

any of various brown and yellow finches of parts of Europe

serine

noun

a sweetish crystalline amino acid involved in the synthesis...

serjeant

noun

an English barrister of the highest rank

serkin

noun

United States concert pianist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1903...

serosa

noun

a thin membrane lining the closed cavities of the body; has...

serotine

noun

common brown bat of Europe

serow

noun

short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of...

serpasil

noun

antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from th...

serration

noun

a row of notches

serratia

noun

a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small G...

serranid

noun

marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters

serval

noun

slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ea...

serviceableness

noun

the quality of being able to provide good service

serviceberry

noun

any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy w...

servility

noun

abject or cringing submissiveness

serviette

noun

a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth...

servitor

noun

someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone...

sesquipedality

noun

using long words

sesquicentennial

noun

the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

setaria

noun

annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses

setscrew

noun

a screw (often without a head) that fits into the boss or hu...

sett

noun

rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make...

setterwort

noun

digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritan...

settlor

noun

(law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or persona...

seurat

noun

French painter who developed pointillism (1859-1891)

sevener

noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one

severalty

noun

the state of being several and distinct

sewellel

noun

bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific c...

sexploitation

noun

the commercial exploitation of sex or sexuality or explicit...

sext

noun

the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon

sextillion

noun

the number that is represented as a one followed by 21 zeros

sextuplet

noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

sfax

noun

the second largest city in Tunisia; located in eastern Tunis...

sezession

noun

an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the F...

sgraffito

noun

a ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surfa...

shadblow

noun

any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy w...

shadberry

noun

edible purple or red berries

shadbush

noun

any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy w...

shaddock

noun

southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling gr...