English Words: S

Synonym of Seychellois Creole; a creole language spoken in the Seychelles

A session.

A surname from Sanskrit.

A male given name from Sanskrit.

The Egyptian goddess of writing and wisdom, often depicted as a scribe or recordkeeper.

Sessionable (easy-drinking, mild).

A river in Piedmont, Italy.

A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 13.9 cm.

A town in San Miguel department, El Salvador.

A Bantu language spoken mainly in Lesotho and in the Free State and Gauteng provinces of South Africa.

1½; 1½ times

Synonym of sesquialterate, 1½ times.

A ratio of 3 to 2 or 1½ to 1.

Synonym of sesquialterate, 1½ times.

Synonym of sesquialterate, in the proportion of 3 to 2 or 1½ to 1.

In a ratio of 3 to 2 or 1½ times to 1.

Synonym of sesquialteral, having a band or dot occupying a third of a wing.

Occurring once every one and a half years (i.e. once every 18 months).

Containing, or acting as, a base that reacts with acids in a proportion of one and a half to one.

A chemical compound containing three carbonate ions for every two metal ions.

Someone or something of 150 years of age, or between 150 and 159 (in its sixteenth decade of life or existence)

A 150-year anniversary.

Occurring every 150 years.

Celebrated after 150 years.

Any chloride containing three chlorine atoms for every two atoms of another element.

Relating to a fifteen year period

Based on a cycle of 36 hours (one-and-a-half days)

Two and a half times as large; having the ratio of 2.5 to 1.

Occurring once every one and a half years (i.e. once every 18 months, or twice every three years); sesquiannual.

Any compound that has three fumarate groups for every two bases

A hydrate whose solid contains three molecules of water of crystallization per two molecules.

(of a map of a complex vector space) Linear in one coordinate and conjugate linear in the other

Pertaining to one language, plus a second in a limited capacity, degree, or content.

The condition of being sesquilingual; the ability to speak one language fluently, and a second language only to a limited extent.

Three magnesium ions in a salt with two divalent anions

One of the sulfur mustards: 1,2-bis(2-chloroethylthio)ethane.

A mutant that contains one and a half times the amount of an original characteristic

A ratio of 9 to 8, especially in music.

The act or process of sesquioxidizing.

Any oxide containing three oxygen atoms for every two atoms of another element.

To convert to a sesquioxide.

Measuring or containing a foot and a half.

A long word.

The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.

A person who tends to use and enjoy long (sesquipedalian) words.

Alternative form of sesquipedalianism.

An instance or condition of being sesquipedalian.

Fear of long words.

A biplane having one long wing and one short one above or below it.

Sesquiplicate.