Matching Words
3825 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
SI System
- noun - a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (can
- a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela); "Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites"
Sialolith
- noun - a stone formed in the salivary gland
Sibilance
- unknown - a hissing sound - from sibilant
Sibilancy
- - The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.
Sibilants
- noun - a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
Sibilated
- verb - express or utter with a hiss
- make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
- pronounce with an initial sibilant
- utter a sibilant
Sibilates
- verb - express or utter with a hiss
- make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
- pronounce with an initial sibilant
- utter a sibilant
Sibylline
- adjective - having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
- resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
Siccation
- - The act or process of drying.
Siccative
- noun - a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)