English Words: S

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Seven Sleepers' Dayname

June 27 in Germany (Siebenschläfertag), a day whose weather is supposed to determine the average weather of the next seven weeks.

seven-arm octopusnoun

Haliphron atlanticus, a species of octopus, notable for its large size.

seven-footernoun

A person who is seven feet tall.

seven-league bootsnoun

A pair of boots enabling the wearer to cross seven leagues at one stride.

seven-levelnoun

A person who has qualified for "Craftsman" level of skill in the United States Air Force, with more training than "Journeyman" (five-level), but less than a "Superintendent" (nine-level)

seven-level screwdrivernoun

A plastic-handled (officially yellow) pocket screwdriver (with clip) and a 2.5 inch shank, ending in a 1/8 inch slotted head.

seven-nightnoun

Alternative form of sevennight.

seven-segmentadj

Of an electronic device or display: consisting of three horizontal and four vertical lines, in an arrangement similar to the shape of the number 8, that may be individually shown or hidden, usually for the display of numeric digits; or consisting of a set of these arrangements.

seven-thousandernoun

Any mountain on Earth that extends more than 7,000 metres (22,966 ft) but less than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.

seven-veil dancenoun

Alternative form of dance of the seven veils.

seven-year melonnoun

A Malabar gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia).

sevenbarknoun

Smooth hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens), native to the eastern US, from Vermont and Florida to Louisiana and Oklahoma.

sevendibleadj

thorough; complete; utter.

sevendynum

Pronunciation spelling of seventy.

Sevenernoun

A member of a branch of Ismaili Shi'a Muslims who believe that Isma'il ibn Jafar was the seventh and last imam (hereditary leader of the Muslim community).

sevenfoldadj

Seven times as much; multiplied by seven.

sevenfoldnessnoun

The property of being sevenfold.

sevengilladj

Having seven pairs of gill slits, as some sharks do.

sevenishnoun

Any time close to seven o'clock.

sevenlessnoun

A gene in Drosophila melanogaster that encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase protein essential to the development of R7 cells in the embryonic eye.

sevenlingnoun

A poem consisting of seven lines, split into three stanzas.

sevennessnoun

The property of being seven in number.

sevennightnoun

A period of seven consecutive days and nights; a week.

sevenpencenoun

The value of seven old pennies.

sevenpennyadj

Having a value or cost of sevenpence.

sevenplexnoun

A building divided into seven separate residences or commercial premises.

sevenscorenoun

One hundred and forty.

sevensiesnoun

A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where seven actions must be performed.

sevensomenoun

A group of seven persons or things.

seventeennum

The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

seventeenfoldadj

By a factor of seventeen.

seventeenishadj

Of about seventeen years of age.

seventeennessnoun

The property of being seventeen.

seventeenpencenoun

The monetary amount of seventeen pence.

seventeenthadj

The ordinal form of the number seventeen.

seventeenthlyadv

In the seventeenth place; seventeenth in a row.

seventhadj

The ordinal form of the number seven.

seventh artnoun

The art of making motion pictures; filmmaking; cinema.

seventh chordnoun

a chord that contains four notes that make three thirds

Seventh Dayname

Saturday (the seventh day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week).

Seventh Monthname

July, the seventh month of the year.

seventhlyadv

In the seventh place; seventh in a row.

seventiesnoun

The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.

seventiethadj

The ordinal form of the number seventy.

seventiethlyadv

In the seventieth place; seventieth in a row.

seventynum

The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

seventy-eighthadj

The ordinal form of the number seventy-eight, describing a person or thing in position number 78 of a sequence.

seventy-fifthadj

The ordinal form of the number seventy-five, describing a person or thing in position number 75 of a sequence.

seventy-firstadj

The ordinal form of the number seventy-one, describing a person or thing in position number 71 of a sequence.

seventy-fivenum

The cardinal number immediately following seventy-four and preceding seventy-six.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 54,294 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 1,086 pages, and you are currently viewing page 294. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

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