| semanticist | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semiotician |
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| semantics | (noun) the study of language meaning | - |
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| (noun) the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text | - |
| semaphore | (noun) an apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms | - |
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| semasiology | (noun) the branch of semantics that studies the cognitive aspects of meaning | Synonyms: cognitive semantics, conceptual semantics |
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| semblance | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: likeness |
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| (noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, colour, gloss |
| (noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: illusion |
| semen | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, ejaculate, seed, seminal fluid |
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| semester | (noun) one of two divisions of an academic year | - |
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| (noun) half a year; a period of 6 months | - |
| semi | (noun) a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle | Synonyms: semitrailer |
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| (noun) a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together | Synonyms: articulated lorry, rig, tractor trailer, trailer truck, trucking rig |
| (noun) one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament | Synonyms: semifinal |
| semiautomatic | (noun) a pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm capable of loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: semiautomatic pistol |
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| semibreve | (noun) a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time) | Synonyms: whole note |
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| semicentenary | (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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| semicentennial | (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentenary |
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| semicircle | (noun) a plane figure with the shape of half a circle | Synonyms: hemicycle |
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| semicoke | (noun) Semicoke is a solid residue obtained by carbonization of coal at a relatively low temperature (below 700° C). | - |
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| semicolon | (noun) a punctuation mark (;) used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period | - |
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| semicoma | (noun) a mild comatose state; a coma from which the person can be roused by appropriate stimuli | - |
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| semiconductor | (noun) a conductor made with semiconducting material | Synonyms: semiconductor device, semiconductor unit |
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| (noun) a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities | Synonyms: semiconducting material |
| semiconsciousness | (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: grogginess, stupefaction, stupor |
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| semidarkness | (noun) partial darkness | - |
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| semidesert | (noun) a region much like a desert but usually located between a desert and the surrounding regions | - |
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| semidiameter | (noun) the apparent radius of a celestial body when viewed as a disc from the earth | - |
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| semiepiphyte | (noun) a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life | Synonyms: hemiepiphyte |
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| semifinal | (noun) one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament | Synonyms: semi |
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| semifinalist | (noun) one of four competitors remaining in a tournament by elimination | - |
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| semifluidity | (noun) a property midway between a solid and a liquid | - |
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| semigloss | (noun) a paint that dries with a finish between glossy and flat | - |
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| semilegality | (noun) The property of being of partial or questionable legality. | Synonyms: semi-legality |
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| semimonthly | (noun) a periodical that is published twice each month (or 24 issues per year) | - |
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| seminar | (noun) a course offered for a small group of advanced students | - |
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| (noun) any meeting for an exchange of ideas | - |
| seminarian | (noun) a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) | Synonyms: seminarist |
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| seminarist | (noun) a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) | Synonyms: seminarian |
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| seminary | (noun) a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis | - |
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| (noun) a private place of education for the young | - |
| seminoma | (noun) malignant tumor of the testis; usually occurring in older men | Synonyms: testicular cancer |
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| semiology | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols | Synonyms: semiotics |
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| semiotician | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semanticist |
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| semiotics | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols | Synonyms: semiology |
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| semiparasite | (noun) a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis | Synonyms: hemiparasite |
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| semipro | (noun) an athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis | Synonyms: semiprofessional |
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| semiprofessional | (noun) an athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis | Synonyms: semipro |
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| semiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixteenth note |
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| semitone | (noun) the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument | Synonyms: half step |
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| semitrailer | (noun) a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle | Synonyms: semi |
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| semitrance | (noun) a trancelike state in which the person can follow instructions but voluntary action is weak or absent | - |
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| semitransparency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: translucence, translucency |
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| semitropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: subtropics |
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| semivowel | (noun) a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | Synonyms: glide |
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| semiweekly | (noun) a periodical that is published twice each week (or 104 issues per year) | - |
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| semolina | (noun) milled product of durum wheat (or other hard wheat) used in pasta | - |
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| sempiternity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: perpetuity |
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| sempstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, seamstress |
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| sen | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel | - |
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| senate | (noun) assembly possessing high legislative powers | - |
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| senator | (noun) a member of a senate | - |
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| senatorship | (noun) the office of senator | - |
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| sendee | (noun) the intended recipient of a message | - |
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| sender | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: transmitter |
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| (noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: transmitter |
| sending | (noun) the act of causing something to go (especially messages) | - |
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| sendup | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| sene | (noun) 100 sene equal 1 tala in Western Samoa | - |
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| senega | (noun) perennial bushy herb of central and southern United States having white flowers with green centers and often purple crest; similar to Seneca snakeroot | Synonyms: Polygala alba |
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| (noun) dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin | - |
| senescence | (noun) the property characteristic of old age | Synonyms: agedness |
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| (noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
| seneschal | (noun) the chief steward or butler of a great household | Synonyms: major-domo |
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| senility | (noun) the state of being senile | - |
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| (noun) mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations | Synonyms: dotage, second childhood |
| senior | (noun) an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation | - |
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| (noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: elder |
| senioritis | (noun) tiredness with the final year of high school | - |
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| seniority | (noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: longevity |
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| (noun) higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service | Synonyms: higher rank, higher status, senior status |
| seniti | (noun) 100 seniti equal 1 pa'anga in Tonga | - |
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| senna | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally | - |
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| sennit | (noun) flat braided cordage that is used on ships | - |
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| senpai | (noun) someone who is older or other superior to the speaker | - |
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| sens | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| sensation | (noun) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation | Synonyms: aesthesis, esthesis, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression |
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| (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
| (noun) a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest | - |
| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| (noun) a state of widespread public excitement and interest | - |
| sensationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricism, empiricist philosophy |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensualism |
| (noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: luridness |
| (noun) subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes | - |
| sensationalist | (noun) someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention | Synonyms: ballyhoo artist |
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| sense | (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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| (noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit |
| (noun) a general conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a natural appreciation or ability | - |
| (noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: signified |
| senselessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, vacuity |
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| sensibility | (noun) mental responsiveness and awareness | Synonyms: aesthesia, esthesia |
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| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensitiveness, sensitivity |
| (noun) refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions | - |
| sensibleness | (noun) the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment | - |
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| sensing | (noun) becoming aware of something via the senses | Synonyms: perception |
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| (noun) the perception that something has occurred or some state exists | Synonyms: detection |
| sensitisation | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitising, sensitization, sensitizing |
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| (noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitization |
| (noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitization |
| sensitiser | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitizer |
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| sensitising | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitization, sensitizing |
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| sensitive | (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
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| sensitiveness | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitivity |
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| (noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitivity |
| (noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| sensitivity | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
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| (noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitiveness |
| (noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
| (noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: predisposition |
| sensitization | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitizing |
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| (noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
| (noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
| sensitizer | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitiser |
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| sensitizing | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitization |
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| sensitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the light sensitivity of film over a range of exposures | - |
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| sensor | (noun) any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner | Synonyms: detector, sensing element |
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| sensorium | (noun) the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world | - |
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| sensualism | (noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensationalism |
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| (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensuality, sensualness |
| sensualist | (noun) a person who enjoys sensuality | - |
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| sensuality | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensualness |
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| sensualness | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensuality |
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| sensuousness | (noun) a sensuous feeling | - |
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| sent | (noun) 100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia | - |
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| sente | (noun) 100 lisente equal 1 loti in Lesotho; one sente is worth one-hundredth of a loti | - |
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| sentence | (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: condemnation, conviction, judgment of conviction |
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| (noun) a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language | - |
| (noun) the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned | Synonyms: prison term, time |
| sentience | (noun) the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | - |
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| (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency |
| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: awareness |