| secularism | (noun) a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations | - |
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| secularist | (noun) an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education | - |
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| secularization | (noun) transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession | Synonyms: secularisation |
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| (noun) the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion | Synonyms: secularisation |
| secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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| secureness | (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture |
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| (noun) the state of freedom from fear or danger | - |
| securer | (noun) someone who obtains or acquires | Synonyms: procurer |
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| security | (noun) measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc. | Synonyms: security measures |
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| (noun) an electrical device that sets off an alarm when someone tries to break in | Synonyms: security measure, security system |
| (noun) a guarantee that an obligation will be met | Synonyms: surety |
| (noun) freedom from anxiety or fear | - |
| (noun) a department responsible for the security of the institution's property and workers | Synonyms: security department |
| (noun) property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation | Synonyms: surety |
| (noun) defense against financial failure; financial independence | Synonyms: protection |
| (noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: certificate |
| (noun) the state of being free from danger or injury | - |
| sedan | (noun) a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors | Synonyms: saloon |
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| (noun) a closed litter for one passenger | Synonyms: sedan chair |
| sedateness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: solemness, solemnity, staidness |
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| sedation | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: drugging |
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| (noun) a state of reduced excitement or anxiety that is induced by the administrative of a sedative agent | - |
| sedative | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, downer, sedative drug |
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| sedge | (noun) grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers | - |
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| sediment | (noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: deposit |
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| sedimentation | (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: alluviation, deposit |
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| sedition | (noun) an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government | - |
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| seducer | (noun) a man who takes advantage of women | Synonyms: ladies' man, lady killer |
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| (noun) a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing | - |
| seduction | (noun) enticing someone astray from right behavior | - |
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| (noun) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone | Synonyms: conquest |
| seductress | (noun) a woman who seduces | - |
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| sedulity | (noun) the quality of being constantly diligent and attentive | Synonyms: sedulousness |
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| sedulousness | (noun) the quality of being constantly diligent and attentive | Synonyms: sedulity |
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| sedum | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Sedum | - |
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| see | (noun) the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located | - |
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| seed | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, ejaculate, semen, seminal fluid |
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| (noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: germ, source |
| (noun) one of the outstanding players in a tournament | Synonyms: seeded player |
| (noun) a small hard fruit | - |
| (noun) a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa | - |
| seedbed | (noun) a bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting | - |
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| seedcake | (noun) a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon | Synonyms: seed cake |
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| seedcase | (noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: cod, pod |
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| seeder | (noun) a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground | - |
| (noun) a person who seeds clouds | Synonyms: cloud seeder |
| seediness | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: manginess, shabbiness, sleaziness |
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| seedling | (noun) young plant or tree grown from a seed | - |
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| seedman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedsman |
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| seedpod | (noun) a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant | Synonyms: pod |
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| seedsman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedman |
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| seedtime | (noun) the time during which seeds should be planted | - |
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| (noun) any time of new development | - |
| seeing | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: eyesight, sightedness |
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| (noun) perception by means of the eyes | Synonyms: beholding, visual perception |
| seek | (noun) the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk | - |
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| seeker | (noun) a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) | - |
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| (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, searcher |
| seeking | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: quest |
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| (noun) an attempt to acquire or gain something | - |
| seemliness | (noun) a sense of propriety and consideration for others | Synonyms: grace |
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| seepage | (noun) the process of seeping | Synonyms: ooze, oozing |
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| seer | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: illusionist, visionary |
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| (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophesier, prophet, vaticinator |
| (noun) an observer who perceives visually | - |
| seersucker | (noun) a light puckered fabric (usually striped) | - |
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| seesaw | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, teeter-totter, teeter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board |
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| segment | (noun) one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object | Synonyms: section |
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| (noun) one of the parts into which something naturally divides | - |
| segmentation | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization |
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| (noun) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | Synonyms: cleavage |
| segno | (noun) (music) a notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated | - |
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| segregate | (noun) someone who is or has been segregated | - |
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| segregation | (noun) the act of segregating or sequestering | Synonyms: sequestration |
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| (noun) a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups | Synonyms: separatism |
| (noun) (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes | - |
| segregationism | (noun) a political orientation favoring political or racial segregation | - |
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| segregationist | (noun) someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart | Synonyms: segregator |
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| segregator | (noun) someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart | Synonyms: segregationist |
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| segue | (noun) the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another | - |
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| seiche | (noun) a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances | - |
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| seid | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seidh, seidhr, seidr, seith, seithr |
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| seidel | (noun) a glass for beer | - |
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| seidh | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seid, seidhr, seidr, seith, seithr |
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| seidhr | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seid, seidh, seidr, seith, seithr |
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| seidr | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seid, seidh, seidhr, seith, seithr |
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| seigneur | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seignior |
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| seigneury | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigniory |
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| (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigniory, signory |
| seignior | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seigneur |
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| seigniorage | (noun) charged by a government for coining bullion | - |
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| seigniory | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigneury |
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| (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, signory |
| seine | (noun) a large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom | - |
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| seism | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: earthquake, quake, temblor |
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| seismogram | (noun) the graphical record of an earth tremor made by using a seismograph | - |
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| seismograph | (noun) a measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of movements of the ground (as an earthquake) | - |
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| seismography | (noun) the measurement of tremors and shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes | - |
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| seismologist | (noun) a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth | - |
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| seismology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies | - |
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| seismosaur | (noun) huge herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous found in western North America | Synonyms: ground-shaker |
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| seith | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seid, seidh, seidhr, seidr, seithr |
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| seithr | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seid, seidh, seidhr, seidr, seith |
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| seizer | (noun) a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship | Synonyms: shanghaier |
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| seizing | (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: grasping, prehension, taking hold |
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| (noun) small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together | - |
| seizure | (noun) the taking possession of something by legal process | - |
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| (noun) the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property | Synonyms: capture, gaining control |
| (noun) the act of taking of a person by force | Synonyms: capture |
| (noun) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease | Synonyms: ictus, raptus |
| selachian | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: elasmobranch |
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| selection | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: choice, option, pick |
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| (noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: choice, pick |
| (noun) a passage selected from a larger work | Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, extract |
| (noun) an assortment of things from which a choice can be made | - |
| (noun) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment | Synonyms: natural selection, survival, survival of the fittest |
| selectivity | (noun) the property of being selective | - |
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| selectman | (noun) a male elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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| selector | (noun) a switch that is used to select among alternatives | Synonyms: selector switch |
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| (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: chooser, picker |
| selectwoman | (noun) a female elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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| selenator | (noun) A fan of Selena Gomez | - |
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| selenite | (noun) a compound that contains a SeO32− anion. | - |
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| selenium | (noun) a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite) | Synonyms: atomic number 34, Se |
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| selenolatry | (noun) the worship of the moon | Synonyms: moon-worship |
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| selenology | (noun) the branch of astronomy that deals with the moon | - |
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| self | (noun) your consciousness of your own identity | Synonyms: ego |
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| (noun) a person considered as a unique individual | - |
| selfishness | (noun) stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others | - |
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| selflessness | (noun) acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity | Synonyms: self-sacrifice |
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| (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: altruism |
| selfsameness | (noun) the quality of being identical with itself | - |
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| sell | (noun) the activity of persuading someone to buy | - |
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| seller | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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| selling | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, merchandising |
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| selloff | (noun) a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade | - |
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| sellout | (noun) a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the selling of an entire stock of something | - |
| (noun) an event for which all tickets are sold | - |
| (noun) someone who has sold out | - |
| selsyn | (noun) a system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator; the generator and the motor are synchronized | Synonyms: synchro |
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| seltzer | (noun) naturally effervescent mineral water | - |
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| (noun) effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: carbonated water, club soda, soda water, sparkling water |
| selva | (noun) a rain forest in a tropical area | Synonyms: tropical rain forest |
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| selvage | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvedge |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvedge |
| selvedge | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvage |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvage |