| basil | (noun) leaves of the common basil; used fresh or dried | Synonyms: sweet basil |
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| (noun) any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum | - |
| basilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilary |
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| basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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| basileus | (noun) a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire | - |
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| basilica | (noun) a Roman building used for public administration | Synonyms: Roman basilica |
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| (noun) an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges | - |
| basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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| basilisk | (noun) small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America | - |
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| (noun) ancient brass cannon | - |
| (noun) (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance | - |
| borosilicate | (noun) a salt of boric and silicic acids | - |
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| busily | (adverb) in a busy manner | - |
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| clumsily | (adverb) in a clumsy manner | - |
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| cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
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| cosily | (adverb) in a cozy manner | Synonyms: cozily |
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| disillusion | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusionment |
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| (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disenchant |
| disillusioned | (adjective) freed from illusion | - |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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| dissilience | (noun) the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe | - |
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| dissilient | (adjective) bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels | - |
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| doorsill | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorstep, threshold |
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| drowsily | (adverb) in a drowsy manner | Synonyms: somnolently |
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| easily | (adverb) with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily') | Synonyms: easy |
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| (adverb) indicating high probability; in all likelihood | Synonyms: well |
| (adverb) without doubt | - |
| ensilage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: silage |
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| ensile | (verb) store in a silo | - |
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| epsilon | (noun) the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| expansile | (adjective) (of gases) capable of expansion | Synonyms: expandable, expandible, expansible |
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| extensile | (adjective) capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out | Synonyms: extensible |
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| fissile | (adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain | - |
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| (adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission | Synonyms: fissionable |
| flimsily | (adverb) in a weak and flimsy manner | - |
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| fluosilicate | (noun) salt of fluosilicic acid | - |
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| fossil | (adjective) characteristic of a fossil | - |
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| (noun) the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil | - |
| (noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: dodo, fogey, fogy |
| fossiliferous | (adjective) bearing or containing fossils | - |
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| fossilisation | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilization |
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| (noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilization |
| fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
| fossilised | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilized, ossified |
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| fossilist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontologist, paleontologist |
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| fossilization | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilisation |
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| (noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilisation |
| fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
| fossilized | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilised, ossified |
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| fossilology | (noun) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains | Synonyms: palaeontology, paleontology |
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| fusil | (noun) a light flintlock musket | - |
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| fusilier | (noun) (formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket | - |
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| fusillade | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, salvo, volley |
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| (verb) attack with fusillade | - |
| fussily | (adverb) in a fussy manner | - |
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| glossily | (adverb) in a glossy manner | - |
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| greasily | (adverb) in a greasy manner | - |
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| ipsilateral | (adjective) on or relating to the same side (of the body) | - |
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| messily | (adverb) in a messy, untidy manner | Synonyms: untidily |
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| microfossil | (noun) a fossil that must be studied microscopically | - |
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| missile | (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: projectile |
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| (noun) a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control | - |
| noisily | (adverb) with much noise or loud and unpleasant sound | - |
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| nonextensile | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: inextensible, nonprotractile |
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| nonfissile | (adjective) not fissile | - |
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| nonprehensile | (adjective) not prehensile | - |
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| nonresilient | (adjective) not resilient | - |
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| prehensile | (adjective) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object | - |
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| (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy |
| (adjective) having a keen intellect | - |
| prissily | (adverb) in a prissy manner | Synonyms: primly |
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| prosily | (adverb) in a prosy manner | - |
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| protrusile | (adjective) capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue | Synonyms: protrusible |
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| psilocin | (noun) a hallucinogenic compound obtained from a mushroom | Synonyms: psilocybin |
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| (noun) a substituted tryptamine alkaloid and a serotonergic psychedelic substance, present in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated counterpart psilocybin. | Synonyms: psilocine, psilocyn, psilotsin |
| psilocine | (noun) a substituted tryptamine alkaloid and a serotonergic psychedelic substance, present in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated counterpart psilocybin. | Synonyms: psilocin, psilocyn, psilotsin |
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| psilocybin | (noun) a hallucinogenic compound obtained from a mushroom | Synonyms: psilocin |
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| psilocyn | (noun) a substituted tryptamine alkaloid and a serotonergic psychedelic substance, present in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated counterpart psilocybin. | Synonyms: psilocin, psilocine, psilotsin |
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| psilomelane | (noun) a mineral consisting of hydrated basic oxide of manganese and barium; a source of manganese | - |
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| psilophyte | (noun) any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plant | - |
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| psilophyton | (noun) any plant or fossil of the genus Psilophyton | - |
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| psilosis | (noun) falling out of hair | - |
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| (noun) a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation | Synonyms: sprue, tropical sprue |
| psilotsin | (noun) a substituted tryptamine alkaloid and a serotonergic psychedelic substance, present in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated counterpart psilocybin. | Synonyms: psilocin, psilocine, psilocyn |
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| pusillanimity | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimousness |
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| pusillanimous | (adjective) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful | Synonyms: poor-spirited, unmanly |
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| pusillanimously | (adverb) with a lack of courage and determination | Synonyms: simperingly |
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| pusillanimousness | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimity |
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| queasily | (adverb) in a queasy manner | - |
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| quicksilver | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, mercurial |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury |
| resile | (verb) return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed | - |
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| (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, retract |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. | - |
| resilience | (noun) the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit | Synonyms: resiliency |
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| (noun) an occurrence of rebounding or springing back | Synonyms: resiliency |
| resiliency | (noun) the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit | Synonyms: resilience |
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| (noun) an occurrence of rebounding or springing back | Synonyms: resilience |
| resilient | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, springy |
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| (adjective) recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like | - |
| rosilla | (noun) a sneezeweed of southwestern United States especially southern California | Synonyms: Helenium puberulum |
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| salsilla | (noun) tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America | Synonyms: Bomarea edulis |
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| (noun) tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia | Synonyms: Bomarea salsilla |
| sessile | (adjective) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk | Synonyms: stalkless |
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| (adjective) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about | - |
| silage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: ensilage |
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| sild | (noun) any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway | - |
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| sildenafil | (noun) virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men | Synonyms: sildenafil citrate, Viagra |
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| silence | (noun) the absence of sound | Synonyms: quiet |
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| (noun) a refusal to speak when expected | Synonyms: muteness |
| (noun) the trait of keeping things secret | Synonyms: secrecy, secretiveness |
| (noun) the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking) | - |
| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, still |
| (verb) keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure | - |
| silenced | (adjective) reduced to silence | - |
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| silencer | (noun) a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise | Synonyms: muffler |
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| (noun) short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing | - |
| silene | (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: campion, catchfly |
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| silent | (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: tacit, understood |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: dumb, mute |
| (adjective) having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility | - |
| (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: soundless, still |
| (adjective) failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to | Synonyms: mum |
| (adjective) not made to sound | Synonyms: unsounded |
| (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless |
| silently | (adverb) without speaking | Synonyms: mutely, taciturnly, wordlessly |
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| silents | (noun) a movie without a soundtrack | Synonyms: silent movie, silent picture |
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| silenus | (noun) any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs) | - |
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| silesia | (noun) a sturdy twill-weave cotton fabric; used for pockets and linings | - |
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| silex | (noun) a pure form of finely ground silica | - |
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| silhouette | (noun) a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color | - |
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| (noun) an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow) | - |
| (verb) represent by a silhouette | - |
| (verb) project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette | - |
| silica | (noun) a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite | Synonyms: silicon dioxide, silicon oxide |
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| silicate | (noun) a salt or ester derived from silicic acid | - |
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| siliceous | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling silica | Synonyms: silicious |
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| silicide | (noun) any of various compounds of silicon with a more electropositive element or radical | - |
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| silicious | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling silica | Synonyms: siliceous |
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| silicle | (noun) short broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants | - |
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