| anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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| causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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| cycloserine | (noun) an antibiotic that is especially active against the tubercle bacillus | - |
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| kieserite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines | - |
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| nonpasserine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds | - |
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| overserious | (adjective) excessively serious | - |
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| passerine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds | - |
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| (noun) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | Synonyms: passeriform bird |
| patisserie | (noun) a bakery specializing in French pastry | - |
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| rotisserie | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats | - |
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| (noun) an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns | - |
| serial | (adjective) pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or composed in serial technique | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations | Synonyms: in series, nonparallel |
| (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, successive |
| (noun) a serialized set of programs | Synonyms: series |
| (noun) a periodical that appears at scheduled times | Synonyms: serial publication, series |
| serialisation | (noun) publication in serial form | Synonyms: serialization |
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| serialise | (verb) arrange serially | Synonyms: serialize |
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| serialism | (noun) 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition | Synonyms: serial music |
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| serialization | (noun) publication in serial form | Synonyms: serialisation |
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| serialize | (verb) arrange serially | Synonyms: serialise |
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| serially | (adverb) in a serial manner | - |
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| seriatim | (adverb) in a series; point by point | - |
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| sericeous | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, pubescent |
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| sericterium | (noun) silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders | Synonyms: serictery, silk gland |
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| serictery | (noun) silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders | Synonyms: sericterium, silk gland |
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| sericultural | (adjective) of or relating to sericulture | - |
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| sericulture | (noun) the production of raw silk by raising silkworms | - |
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| (noun) raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk | - |
| sericulturist | (noun) a producer of raw silk | - |
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| seriema | (noun) Brazilian Cariama; sole representative of the genus Cariama | Synonyms: Cariama cristata, crested cariama |
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| (noun) Argentinian Cariama | Synonyms: chunga, Chunga burmeisteri |
| series | (noun) (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions | - |
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| (noun) a periodical that appears at scheduled times | Synonyms: serial, serial publication |
| (noun) a serialized set of programs | Synonyms: serial |
| (noun) (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams | - |
| (noun) similar things placed in order or happening one after another | - |
| (noun) a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection | - |
| (noun) (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other | - |
| serif | (noun) a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character | Synonyms: seriph |
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| serigraph | (noun) a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil | Synonyms: silk screen print, silkscreen |
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| serigraphy | (noun) the act of making a print by the silkscreen method | - |
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| serin | (noun) any of various brown and yellow finches of parts of Europe | - |
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| serine | (noun) a sweetish crystalline amino acid involved in the synthesis by the body of cysteine | - |
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| seriocomedy | (noun) a comedy with serious elements or overtones | Synonyms: tragicomedy |
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| seriocomic | (adjective) mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating | Synonyms: seriocomical |
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| seriocomical | (adjective) mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating | Synonyms: seriocomic |
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| serious | (adjective) concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities | - |
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| (adjective) completely lacking in playfulness | Synonyms: sober, unplayful |
| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, grievous, life-threatening, severe |
| (adjective) requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve | - |
| (adjective) of great consequence | - |
| (adjective) appealing to the mind | Synonyms: good |
| seriously | (adverb) in a serious manner | Synonyms: earnestly, in earnest |
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| (adverb) to a severe or serious degree | Synonyms: badly, gravely, severely |
| seriousness | (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity |
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| (noun) the quality of arousing fear or distress | Synonyms: distressfulness |
| (noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: earnestness, sincerity |
| seriph | (noun) a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character | Synonyms: serif |
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| trousering | (noun) any fabric used to make trousers | Synonyms: panting |
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