| seeming | (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: apparent, ostensible |
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| seemingly | (adverb) from appearances alone | Synonyms: apparently, on the face of it, ostensibly |
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| seemliness | (noun) a sense of propriety and consideration for others | Synonyms: grace |
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| seemly | (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous |
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| seep | (verb) pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings | Synonyms: ooze |
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| seepage | (noun) the process of seeping | Synonyms: ooze, oozing |
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| seeping | (adjective) leaking out slowly | Synonyms: oozing, oozy |
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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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| (verb) move up and down as if on a seesaw | - |
| (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: teeter-totter, teetertotter |
| (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: teeter, totter |
| seethe | (verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: roll |
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| (verb) foam as if boiling | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated emotional state | Synonyms: boil |
| (verb) be noisy with activity | Synonyms: buzz, hum |
| seething | (adjective) in constant agitation | - |
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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 | - |
| (verb) divide into segments | Synonyms: section |
| (verb) divide or split up | - |
| segmental | (adjective) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters | Synonyms: metameric, segmented |
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| (adjective) divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds | - |
| 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 |
| segmented | (adjective) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters | Synonyms: metameric, segmental |
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| 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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| (verb) separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others | - |
| (verb) divide from the main body or mass and collect | - |
| (verb) separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation | - |
| segregated | (adjective) separated or isolated from others or a main group | Synonyms: unintegrated |
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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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| (verb) proceed without interruption; in music or talk | - |
| 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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| (verb) fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine | - |
| 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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| seismal | (adjective) subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration | Synonyms: seismic |
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| seismic | (adjective) subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration | Synonyms: seismal |
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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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| seismologic | (adjective) of or concerned with seismology | Synonyms: seismological |
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| seismological | (adjective) of or concerned with seismology | Synonyms: seismologic |
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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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| seize | (verb) capture the attention or imagination of | Synonyms: grab |
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| (verb) affect | Synonyms: clutch, get hold of |
| (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, prehend, take hold, take hold of |
| (verb) take or capture by force | - |
| (verb) hook by a pull on the line | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, conquer |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, sequester |
| (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, assume, take over, usurp |
| 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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| seldom | (adverb) not often | Synonyms: rarely |
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| select | (adjective) selected or chosen for special qualifications | Synonyms: blue-ribbon |
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| (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, prize, quality |
| (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: choose, pick out, take |
| selected | (adjective) chosen in preference to another | - |
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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 |
| selective | (adjective) tending to select; characterized by careful choice | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by very careful or fastidious selection | - |
| selectively | (adverb) by selection; in a selective manner | - |
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| 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 | (adjective) (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self | - |
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| (noun) your consciousness of your own identity | Synonyms: ego |
| (noun) a person considered as a unique individual | - |
| selfish | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving |
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| selfishly | (adverb) in an egotistical manner | Synonyms: egotistically |
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| selfishness | (noun) stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others | - |
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| selfless | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: altruistic |
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| selflessly | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: altruistically |
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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 |
| selfsame | (adjective) being the exact same one; not any other: | Synonyms: identical, very |
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| selfsameness | (noun) the quality of being identical with itself | - |
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| selfshot | (adjective) (of a video) recorded by the performers | - |
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| sell | (noun) the activity of persuading someone to buy | - |
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| (verb) persuade somebody to accept something | - |
| (verb) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent | - |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, trade |
| (verb) give up for a price or reward | - |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) be sold at a certain price or in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be responsible for the sale of | - |
| (verb) be approved of or gain acceptance | - |
| sellable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, merchantable, vendable, vendible |
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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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| sellotape | (verb) fasten or attach with sellotape | Synonyms: scotch tape |
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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 |
| semantic | (adjective) of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning | - |
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| semantically | (adverb) with regard to meaning | - |
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| 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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| (verb) convey by semaphore, of information | - |
| (verb) send signals by or as if by semaphore | - |
| 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 | - |