English words: set designer to sev'n
300 English words, part 67 of 245 of the words starting with S, A to Z. 22 have a page of their own.
English words set designer to sev'n
- set designer noun: A designer specialised in set design
- set difference noun: Synonym of relative complement.
- set down noun, verb: To write.
- set dresser noun: A person who prepares the set with props and furniture to give it the correct appearance and to make sure that each item is in the correct position for each...
- set dressing noun: The process of furnishing and decorating a film, TV, or theatre set with all the items that aren't held or used by actors to create a realistic, lived-in...
- set eyes on verb: To see; to observe.
- set fair adjective, noun, verb: In plastering, a particularly good trowelled surface.
- set fire to verb: To cause (something) to be on fire; to set (something) alight.
- set foot verb: To enter
- set foot on land verb: To disembark.
- set for life adjective: Possessing sufficient resources, especially financial, to last a lifetime.
- set forth verb: To state; describe; give an account of.
- set forward verb: To put or carry (something) forward.
- set forwards verb: Alternative form of set forward.
- set free verb: To release, to free, to give freedom to.
- set function noun: A mathematical function whose input is a set (usually of real numbers or a set of points in the Euclidean or some measure space), and whose output is...
- set in adjective, noun, verb: To take root, become established.
- set in motion verb: To trigger movement or progress; to get going.
- set in one's ways adjective: Driven by habit; inclined or determined to continue according to one's custom or established preferences.
- set-in sleeve noun: A sleeve sewn into an armscye.
- set in stone adjective, verb: Permanent; certain; firm.
- set in train verb: To start a process.
- set-jetting noun: The practice of travelling to real-world locations featured as filming sites in movies, television shows, or other media.
- set light verb: Followed by to: Synonym of set fire (“to cause to be on fire, to set alight”).
- set list noun: Alternative form of setlist.
- set loose verb: To set free, let go, release, liberate, unleash.
- set mine verb: To enter a hand with a low pair in hopes of flopping a set, i.e. three of a kind.
- set net noun, verb: A fishing net that is used by securing it to a fixed underwater framework.
- set netter noun: One who fishes using a set net.
- set netting noun, verb: The practice of fishing with a set net.
- set of one's jaw noun: The manner of one's lower facial expression, especially as suggesting firm resolve, or intensity of thought or feeling.
- set of pipes noun: A wind instrument incorporating multiple pipes, such as a panpipe or bagpipe.
- set of wheels noun: A car.
- set off noun, verb: To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip.
- set on verb: To attack.
- set on a pedestal verb: Alternative form of put on a pedestal.
- set on fire verb: To cause to begin to burn.
- set on foot verb: To originate; to put into action.
- set one's affairs in order verb: Alternative form of put one's affairs in order.
- set one's cap at verb: To choose a man as a potential husband (for a girl).
- set one's face against verb: To oppose strenuously; to determine not to do or accept.
- set one's hair on fire verb: To become wildly impassioned; to behave crazily.
- set one's hand to verb: Alternative form of turn one's hand to.
- set one's heart on verb: To desire with intensity and commitment, to earnestly long for.
- set one's heart upon verb: Alternative form of set one's heart on.
- set one's house in order verb: Synonym of put one's house in order.
- set one's shoulder to the wheel verb: Synonym of put one's shoulder to the wheel.
- set one's sights verb: To give one's close attention to, especially as a goal, objective, or other object of special interest.
- set one's watch back verb: To ponder or experience a past time.
- set one's watch by someone verb: To know the current time by observing a very punctual and reliable person going about their regular routine.
- set onto verb: Synonym of set on (to attack or to encourage someone, or an animal, to attack someone)
- set operation noun: A mathematical operation that returns a set taking one or more sets as input.
- set out verb /ˈsɛt‿aʊt/: To explain something, or give exact details, usually in writing.
- set out one's stall verb /ˌsɛt‿aʊt wʌnz ˈstɔːl/: To make publicly clear one's position with reference to a particular idea or philosophy, or what one can do.
- set over verb: To assign; transfer ownership of something.
- set pen to paper verb: Synonym of put pen to paper.
- set phasers to interjection: Prepare to; commence (used with a following verb or noun)
- set phrase noun: An established expression whose wording is subject to little or no variation, and which may or may not be idiomatic.
- set piece noun: A piece of freestanding stage scenery.
- set point noun: A situation where if one of the two players wins the next point, (s)he will win the set (but not the match).
- set point theory noun: The theory that there is a biological control method in humans that actively regulates bodyweight towards a predetermined set weight for each individual.
- set pulses racing verb: To excite, thrill.
- set right verb: Alternative form of set aright.
- set sail verb: To depart on a voyage by boat or ship.
- set sails verb: Alternative form of set sail.
- set screw noun: Any screw used to hold or adjust a setting, via fixation in a certain location or position: frequently a headless one, but may also be any other machine...
- set shot noun: A kick for goal after a free kick has been awarded to the kicker and play has stopped.
- set sights verb: Alternative form of set one's sights
- set sights on verb: Alternative form of set one's sights on.
- set someone's teeth on edge verb: To irritate or strike as unpleasant.
- set square noun: A flat triangular piece of plastic or other material, having corners of precise angles, used in technical drawing
- set-stitched adjective: Stitched according to a formal pattern.
- set store by verb: To believe that something is very necessary or important; to value highly.
- set straight verb: To correct; to make right or true.
- set the ball rolling verb: Synonym of get the ball rolling.
- set the bar verb: To set specific standards or expectations.
- set the cat among the pigeons verb: Alternative form of put the cat among the pigeons.
- set the heather alight verb: Alternative form of set the heather on fire.
- set the heather on fire verb: To create a disturbance.
- set the land verb: To observe by the compass how the shore bears from the ship.
- set the pace verb: To establish the speed for a group to move at, for example in a race.
- set the record straight verb: To correct a previous error or misunderstanding, especially one in print.
- set the scene verb: To prepare for something by providing a background, a description, etc.
- set the stage verb: To prepare; to establish the basis or required conditions.
- set the table verb: To arrange plates, etc. for a meal.
- set the Thames on fire verb: To achieve something amazing but to a nearly-impossible degree; to do something which brings great public acclaim.
- set the tone verb: Create the emotional quality to be expected for something.
- set the wheels in motion verb: to initiate a chain of events necessary to help one achieve a goal (more quickly)
- set the world ablaze verb: Alternative form of set the world on fire.
- set the world afire verb: Alternative form of set the world on fire.
- set the world aflame verb: Alternative form of set the world on fire.
- set the world alight verb: Alternative form of set the world on fire.
- set the world on fire verb: To do something remarkable or sensational.
- set the world to rights verb: To talk about improving the world.
- set-theoretic adjective: Of, relating to or using set theory.
- set-theoretic difference noun: The set that contains exactly those elements belonging to A but not to B; the relative complement of B in A.
- set-theoretical adjective: Alternative spelling of set-theoretic.
- set theoretically adverb: In a manner which uses set theory
- set theory noun: The mathematical theory of sets.
- set to noun, verb: A fight.
- set to music verb: To adapt a literary work by adding music (and often song)
- set to work verb: To begin working.
- set tool noun: A blacksmithing tool meant to be struck by a hammer
- set top box noun: A device that connects some source of signal to a television set, often decrypting a digitally encrypted signal from a communications satellite or cable...
- set up adjective, noun, verb /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/: To make ready for use.
- set up camp verb: To prepare an outdoor area for a prolonged stay.
- set up one's bristles verb: To bristle; to react in a defensive and bad-tempered manner.
- set up one's rest verb: To have a settled determination.
- set up one's staff verb: To take up one's residence; to start to live in a certain place
- set up shop verb: To physically arrange a shop or workplace.
- set up someone's birse verb: To make someone angry.
- set up to oneself verb: To set up (compose, typeset) one portion of text that precedes another portion set up by the same typesetter.
- set upon verb: To attack someone.
- set with verb: To accept, handle or agree with (something).
- seta noun /ˈsiːtə/: A bristle or hair.
- setaceo-serrate adjective: Having the serratures ending in a bristle-like point or seta.
- setaceous adjective: Of, relating to, or resembling a seta or bristle; bristly.
- setaceous Hebrew character noun: Xestia c-nigrum, a noctuid moth having distinctive black wing markings that resemble the Hebrew letter nun (נ).
- setaceously adverb: In a setaceous manner.
- Setagaya proper noun: One of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan.
- setal adjective: Of, pertaining to, or having setae
- setaphyte noun: Any of the plants of the clade Setaphyta.
- setar noun: A Persian musical instrument.
- setaside noun: Alternative spelling of set-aside.
- setastine noun: A particular antihistamine drug.
- setation noun: A growth or covering of setae
- Setauket proper noun: A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States.
- setazindol noun: An anorectic drug.
- setback noun /ˈsɛtbæk/: An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
- setbolt noun: An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together in shipbuilding.
- setbook noun: Alternative form of set book.
- setdown noun: The act of setting down something or someone.
- Sète proper noun: A commune and town in Hérault department, Occitania, France.
- Setebosian adjective /ˌsɛtɛˈbɒsiən/: Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Setebos.
- setee noun: Alternative form of settee (sofa or sailing vessel)
- setenant noun: Alternative form of se-tenant.
- seter noun: Alternative spelling of saeter.
- Setet noun: A southwest Asiatic bedouin; someone from Setet
- setfast noun /ˈsɛtfɑːst/: A tumour on a horse's back.
- Seth proper noun /sɛθ/: The third son of Adam and Eve.
- Seth name noun: A serekh name that features the figure of the god Set atop the serekh.
- sethera number: six in Cumbrian sheep counting
- Sethi proper noun: A surname.
- Sethian adjective, noun: A member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect who venerated the Biblical Seth, third son of Adam and Eve, depicted in their creation myths as a divine...
- Sethianism noun: The beliefs and practices of the Sethians.
- Sethic adjective: Of or relating to the biblical Seth.
- Sethite noun: A descendant of the Biblical Seth.
- sethood noun: The state of being a set.
- sethoxydim noun: The herbicide (5RS)-2-[(EZ)-1-(ethoxyimino)butyl]-5-[(2RS)-2-(ethylthio)propyl]-3-hydroxycyclohex-2-en-1-one.
- Seti proper noun: A language of Papua New Guinea.
- Setian adjective, noun: Of or relating to the Egyptian god Set
- Setianism noun: The beliefs and practices of the Setians.
- setiferous adjective /siːˈtɪfəɹəs/: Having bristles; bristly.
- setiform adjective /ˈsiː.təˌfɔɹm/: Having the shape or structure of bristles.
- setiger noun /ˈsiːtɪdʒə(ɹ)/: An annelid having setae; a chaetopod.
- setigerous adjective: Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae.
- setim noun /ˈsiːtɪm/: Alternative form of shittim.
- setiparous adjective: Producing setae.
- setiptiline noun: A tetracyclic antidepressant.
- setireme noun: An oar-like swimming leg of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.
- Setleis syndrome noun: A rare genetic ectodermal dysplasia characterized by facial skin abnormalities, with double upper eyelashes and missing lower eyelashes.
- setless adjective: Without a set (in multiple meanigs)
- setlessness noun: Absence of a set.
- setlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a theatrical set.
- setline noun: Synonym of trotline.
- setlist noun /ˈsɛtˌlɪst/: A list of the songs to be played by a particular band or musical act for a particular show or tour.
- setmaker noun: A manufacturer of television sets.
- setmark noun: A special value used on computer tape to separate sets of files.
- setmelanotide noun: An antiobesity drug.
- setmine verb: Alternative spelling of set mine.
- setness noun: The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy.
- setnet noun, verb: Alternative form of set net.
- setnetter noun: Alternative form of set netter.
- setnetting noun, verb: Alternative form of set netting.
- Seto proper noun: A surname.
- setoff noun: Alternative spelling of set-off.
- setogenesis noun: The formation of new setae
- Setoguchi proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
- setoid noun: A set together with an equivalence relation.
- setoka noun: A cultivar of tangor (tangerine/orange hybrid, Citrus reticulata × Citrus sinensis).
- seton noun: A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue...
- setoperone noun: A compound that is a ligand to the 5-HT_(2A) receptor.
- setose adjective: Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
- setosely adverb: In a setose manner.
- setosity noun: The quality of being setous.
- Setouchi proper noun: Region of Japan's inland sea and coastal areas roundabout
- setous adjective: setose
- setout noun: an outset
- setover noun: A form of canal lockage in which the towboat and one or more barges are separated from the other barges and brought alongside them, as a unit, in the lock...
- setpiece noun: Alternative spelling of set piece.
- setpoint noun /ˈsɛtpɔɪnt/: The command signal or value which is fed into a controller to establish the target or desired position or state of the controlled device or process.
- setrobuvir noun: An experimental drug for the treatment of hepatitis C.
- -setron suffix /sə.tɹɒn/: Used to form names of serotonin receptor 5-HT₃ antagonists not fitting into other established groups of serotonin receptor antagonists.
- sets noun, verb /sɛts/: plural of set
- setscrew noun: Alternative spelling of set screw.
- Setser proper noun: A surname.
- Setsubun noun: A Japanese festival on the last day before spring.
- Setsuko proper noun: A female given name from Japanese.
- Setswana proper noun /sɛtˈswɑːnə/: A language spoken widely in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana and South Africa in the Northern Cape, the central and western Free State and in the North...
- sett noun, verb /sɛt/: The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
- settability noun: The state or condition of being settable.
- settable adjective: Capable of being set.
- Sette proper noun: A surname.
- settee noun /sɛˈtiː/: A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
- settee bed noun: Synonym of sofa bed.
- setter noun, verb /ˈsɛt.ə/: A typesetter.
- setter up noun: One who sets something up.
- Setterfield proper noun: A surname.
- setterlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a setter (breed of dog).
- setterwort noun: The bear's-foot (Helleborus foetidus).
- settin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of setting.
- setting adjective, noun, verb /ˈsɛtɪŋ/: The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- setting coat noun: The final coat of plastering on walls or ceilings.
- setting dog noun: A dog trained to set game; a setter.
- setting pole noun: A pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing boats along in shallow water.
- setting room noun: Alternative form of sitting room
- setting rule noun: Synonym of composing rule.
- setting time noun: Synonym of initial setting time.
- settingless adjective: Without a setting.
- settlability noun: Alternative form of settleability.
- settlable adjective: Alternative form of settleable.
- settle noun, verb /ˈsɛ.təl/: To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- settle a score verb: To even the score.
- settle accounts with verb: To bring (an argument, etc.) to a peaceful but resigned conclusion.
- settle bed noun: A kind of early sofa-bed, one that can be converted into a bench when not in use.
- settle down verb: To make or become quiet and calm after a period of disturbance or restlessness.
- settle for verb: To accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable.
- settle in verb: To get comfortable or established, as in a new place.
- settle into verb: To become comfortable with a place or routine.
- settle on verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see settle, on.
- settle one's account verb: To return what one owes; to make good on one's debts; to pay back.
- settle one's affairs verb: Synonym of put one's affairs in order.
- settle someone's hash verb: To physically or verbally subdue someone.
- settle the score verb: Synonym of even the score.
- settle up verb: to pay what one owes (a debt, a bill etc.)
- settle upon verb: Synonym of settle on.
- settle with verb: To get revenge on (someone); to resolve a grudge with (someone).
- settleability noun: The quality of being settleable.
- settleable adjective, noun: That can settle or be settled.
- settled adjective, verb /ˈsɛtl̩d/: Comfortable and at ease, especially after a period of change or unrest.
- settled district noun: A division of the country peopled with settlers, typically as opposed to ‘wild’ or Aboriginal territory.
- settledly adverb: In a settled manner.
- settledness noun: The quality or state of being settled.
- settlement noun /ˈsɛ.təl.mənt/: The act of settling.
- settlement agreement noun: A contractual agreement between parties to actual or potential litigation by which each party agrees to a resolution of the underlying dispute.
- settlement currency noun: Synonym of unit of account.
- settlement date noun: The date on which a trade (bonds, equities, foreign exchange, commodities, etc.) settles.
- settlement house noun: An institution providing various community services, usually to the urban poor.
- Settlement Indian noun: A Cusabo.
- settlement tank noun: a container in which sediment or other denser materials in water settle on the bottom
- settlementation noun: Settlement, especially in an area that has no official incorporation or legal claim made on it.
- settler noun /ˈsɛt.lɚ/: Someone who settles in a new location; especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place.
- settler colonialism noun: A form of colonialism in which colonizers seek to displace indigenous populations from their land in order to establish permanent settlements of their own.
- Settler of Catan noun: A player of the multiplayer board game The Settlers of Catan.
- settler's clock noun: Synonym of laughing kookaburra.
- settler's twine noun: Synonym of boorgay.
- settlerdom noun: The realm or sphere of settlers.
- settlerhood noun: The state or condition of being a settler.
- settlerism noun: An ideology extolling the virtue of bettering oneself by becoming a settler in undeveloped lands.
- settlerist adjective, noun: Promoting emigration as a settler.
- settleristic adjective: Related to or characterized by settlerism
- settlin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of settling.
- settling noun, verb /ˈsɛtl̩ɪŋ/: The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
- settling time noun: The elapsed time from the application of an ideal instantaneous step input to the time at which the amplifier output has entered and remained within a...
- settlor noun /ˈsɛt.lɚ/: A person who settles property on express trust for the benefit of beneficiaries.
- Setty proper noun: A surname from Telugu.
- Setúbal proper noun: A district in central Portugal.
- setula noun: A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta
- setulate adjective: Having setulae
- setule noun: A setula.
- setuliform adjective: Resembling a setula.
- setulose adjective: Having small bristles or setae.
- setulous adjective: Alternative form of setulose.
- setumah noun: A closed parashah (a section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh), set apart by a space in the middle of the line of text, with the previous portion...
- setup noun /ˈsɛtʌp/: Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
- setup block noun: Synonym of 1-2-3 block.
- setup fee noun: An initial fee that is charged by an organization to set up an account (or similar financial instrument).
- setup man noun: A (male) relief pitcher who appears in the inning prior to the closer, typically the 8th inning.
- setup time noun: The minimum amount of time for which the data input should be held steady before the clock event for reliable sampling.
- setwall noun: The plant valerian.
- setwise adjective: In terms of a set or sets.
- setwork noun: Synonym of setworks (“sawmill mechanism that positions the log for the next cut”).
- setworks noun: The mechanism in a sawmill that positions the log for the next cut.
- Setzer proper noun: A surname.
- SEU noun: Initialism of slightly enriched uranium.
- Seubert proper noun: A surname.
- seudah noun /ˈsi.də/: A festive meal.
- seudah shlishit noun: The third meal eaten on the Sabbath.
- seudat mitzvah noun: A meal held in honor of the fulfillment of a certain mitzvah.
- seudomístico adjective: pseudomystical
- Seufert proper noun: A surname.
- Seumas proper noun: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, equivalent to English James.
- Seuratian adjective: Of or relating to Georges Seurat, French post-Impressionist artist known for devising the painting techniques of chromoluminarism and pointillism.
- Seuss proper noun: A surname
- Seussian adjective: Of or relating to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904–1991), American writer and cartoonist best known for his imaginative children's books, often written...
- Seussical adjective: Synonym of Seussian.
- Seussification noun: The process of making or becoming like the works of Theodor Seuss, "Dr. Seuss" (1904–1991), American writer and cartoonist best known for his imaginative...
- sev noun, number /sɛv/: An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste.
- sev'n number: Contraction of seven.
Part 66 · Part 68 · English words: S
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under S: 73,223 words, in 245 parts.