| serve | (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | Synonyms: service |
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| server | (noun) utensil used in serving food or drink | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network | Synonyms: host |
| (noun) a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) | Synonyms: waiter |
| (noun) (court games) the player who serves to start a point | - |
| service | (noun) an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance | - |
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| (noun) the act of public worship following prescribed rules | Synonyms: divine service, religious service |
| (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | Synonyms: serve |
| (noun) the act of mating by male animals | Synonyms: servicing |
| (noun) the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone | Synonyms: service of process, serving |
| (noun) periodic maintenance on a car or machine | Synonyms: inspection and repair, overhaul |
| (noun) the performance of duties by a waiter or servant | - |
| (noun) employment in or work for another | - |
| (noun) work done by one person or group that benefits another | - |
| (noun) (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him | - |
| (noun) tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table | Synonyms: table service |
| (noun) a means of serving | Synonyms: avail, help |
| (noun) a force that is a branch of the armed forces | Synonyms: armed service, military service |
| (noun) a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation | - |
| serviceability | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceableness, usability, usableness, useableness |
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| serviceableness | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceability, usability, usableness, useableness |
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| serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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| (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
| serviceman | (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: man, military man, military personnel |
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| services | (noun) performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others | - |
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| servicing | (noun) the act of mating by male animals | Synonyms: service |
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| serviette | (noun) a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing | Synonyms: napkin, table napkin |
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| servility | (noun) abject or cringing submissiveness | Synonyms: obsequiousness, subservience |
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| serving | (noun) the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone | Synonyms: service, service of process |
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| (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: helping, portion |
| servitor | (noun) someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else | - |
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| servitude | (noun) state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment | - |
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| servo | (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servomechanism, servosystem |
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| servomechanism | (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servo, servosystem |
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| servosystem | (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servo, servomechanism |
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| sesame | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benni, benny, Sesamum indicum |
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| sesamoid | (noun) any of several small round bones formed in a tendon where it passes over a joint | Synonyms: os sesamoideum, sesamoid bone |
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| sesbania | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers | - |
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| sesquicentennial | (noun) the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| sesquipedalia | (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalian |
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| sesquipedalian | (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalia |
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| sesquipedality | (noun) using long words | - |
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| sess | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| session | (noun) a meeting devoted to a particular activity | - |
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| (noun) a meeting for execution of a group's functions | - |
| (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: seance, sitting |
| (noun) the time during which a school holds classes | Synonyms: academic session, academic term, school term |
| sestet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
| set | (noun) several exercises intended to be done in series | Synonyms: exercise set |
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| (noun) the act of putting something in position | - |
| (noun) representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production | Synonyms: stage set |
| (noun) any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals | - |
| (noun) (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way | Synonyms: readiness |
| (noun) a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way | Synonyms: bent |
| (noun) the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon | - |
| (noun) a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used | - |
| (noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: band, circle, lot |
| (noun) (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols | - |
| (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, solidification, solidifying |
| (noun) a unit of play in tennis or squash | - |
| seta | (noun) a stiff hair or bristle | - |
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| (noun) stalk of a moss capsule | - |
| setback | (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, reverse |
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| setline | (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: spiller, trawl, trawl line, trotline |
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| setoff | (noun) structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly | Synonyms: offset, set-back |
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| setscrew | (noun) a screw (often without a head) that fits into the boss or hub of a wheel or cam etc. and prevents motion of the part relative to the shaft on which it is mounted | - |
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| (noun) a screw that is used to adjust the tension on a spring | - |
| sett | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobble, cobblestone |
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| settee | (noun) a small sofa | - |
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| (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | Synonyms: settle |
| setter | (noun) a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point | - |
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| (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, typesetter, typographer |
| setterwort | (noun) digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally | Synonyms: bear's foot, Helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore |
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| setting | (noun) a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted | Synonyms: mise en scene, stage setting |
| (noun) a table service for one person | Synonyms: place setting |
| (noun) the context and environment in which something is set | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) the physical position of something | - |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: background, scope |
| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: circumstance, context |
| settle | (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | Synonyms: settee |
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| settledness | (noun) The quality or state of being fixed, permanent or stationary; established. | - |
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| settlement | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, colonization |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, resolution |
| (noun) a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it | - |
| (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: colony |
| (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: small town, village |
| (noun) an area where a group of families live together | - |
| settler | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: colonist |
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| (noun) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who settles disputes | - |
| settling | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | Synonyms: subsidence, subsiding |
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| settlings | (noun) sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid | Synonyms: dregs |
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| settlor | (noun) (law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary; a person who gives such property is said to settle it on the trustee | Synonyms: trustor |
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| setup | (noun) an act that incriminates someone on a false charge | Synonyms: frame-up |
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| (noun) equipment designed to serve a specific function | Synonyms: apparatus |
| (noun) the way something is organized or arranged | - |
| seven | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with seven pips on the face | Synonyms: seven-spot |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, heptad, septenary, septet, sevener, VII |
| sevener | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, heptad, septenary, septet, seven, VII |
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| sevens | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, parliament |
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| sevensome | (noun) seven people considered as a unit | Synonyms: septet, septette |
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| seventeen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one | Synonyms: 17, XVII |
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| seventeenth | (noun) position 17 in a countable series of things | - |
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| seventh | (noun) the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it | - |
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| (noun) one part in seven equal parts | Synonyms: one-seventh |
| (noun) position seven in a countable series of things | - |
| seventies | (noun) the time of life between 70 and 80 | Synonyms: mid-seventies |
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| (noun) the decade from 1970 to 1979 | Synonyms: 1970s |
| seventieth | (noun) position 70 in a countable series of things | - |
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| seventy | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven | Synonyms: 70, LXX |
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| severalty | (noun) exclusive individual ownership | - |
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| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, distinctness, separateness |
| severance | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severing |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture |
| severeness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: austereness, severity |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity, stiffness |
| (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity |
| (noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: badness, severity |
| severing | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severance |
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| severity | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness |
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| (noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: badness, severeness |
| (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness |
| (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: austereness, severeness |
| sewage | (noun) waste matter carried away in sewers or drains | Synonyms: sewerage |
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| sewellel | (noun) bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent | Synonyms: Aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver |
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| sewer | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: cloaca, sewerage |
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| (noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: gutter, toilet |
| (noun) someone who sews | - |
| sewerage | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: cloaca, sewer |
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| (noun) waste matter carried away in sewers or drains | Synonyms: sewage |
| sewing | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: stitching |
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| (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: stitchery |
| sex | (noun) activities associated with sexual intercourse | Synonyms: sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice |
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| (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | Synonyms: gender, sexuality |
| (noun) all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses | Synonyms: sexual urge |
| (noun) either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided | - |
| sexagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the sixties | - |
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| sexcapade | (noun) a sexual escapade; an illicit affair | - |
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| sexiness | (noun) The state or quality of being sexy, of possessing the traits of sexual appeal. | - |
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| (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amativeness, amorousness, eroticism, erotism |
| sexism | (noun) discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex | - |
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| sexist | (noun) a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women | Synonyms: male chauvinist |
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| sexlessness | (noun) having no evident sex or sex organs | Synonyms: asexuality |
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| sexploitation | (noun) the commercial exploitation of sex or sexuality or explicit sexual material | - |
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| sexpot | (noun) a young woman who is thought to have sex appeal | Synonyms: sex bomb, sex kitten |
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| sext | (noun) A message with sexual content | - |
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| (noun) the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon | - |
| sextant | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant | - |
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| (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees | - |
| sextet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sestet, sextette |
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| (noun) six people considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextette, sixsome |
| (noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sestet, sextette |
| (noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sestet, sextette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
| sextette | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sestet, sextet |
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| (noun) six people considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sixsome |
| (noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sestet, sextet |
| (noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sestet, sextet |
| sextillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 21 zeros | - |
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| sexting | (noun) sending sexual messages using a mobile phone or computer | - |
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| sexton | (noun) an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects | Synonyms: sacristan |
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| sextuplet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
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| sexuality | (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | Synonyms: gender, sex |
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| sezession | (noun) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s | Synonyms: secession |
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