English words starting with semit

Meanings of Semite:

noun

A member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a semitic language, including in particular the jews and arabs.

Usage examples:

After the bronze age, amorites, western semites, hyksos and hittites successively invaded the area.

Meanings of Semitendinosus:

noun

One of the three hamstring muscles at the back of the thigh

Meanings of Semitertian:

adjective

Of a fever, especially malaria: having characteristics of both quotidian and tertian fevers; specifically characterized by paroxysms of fever and chills which recur every other day, but with little remission of fever on the intervening day.

noun

Semitertian fever; an instance of this.

Meanings of Semites:

noun

A member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a semitic language, including in particular the jews and arabs.

Usage examples:

After the bronze age, amorites, western semites, hyksos and hittites successively invaded the area.

Meanings of Semitic:

adjective

Relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes hebrew, arabic, and aramaic and certain ancient languages such as phoenician and akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the afro-asiatic family.

Usage examples:

Aramaic belongs to the semitic language group historically centred in the middle east.

Meanings of Semiticism:

noun

Semitism.

Meanings of Semiticize:

verb

To make (a people, language, word, etc.) semitic in character; = "semitize".

Meanings of Semitics:

noun

With singular agreement. the scientific study of the language, literature, etc., of semitic peoples.

Meanings of Semitism:

noun

The fact or quality of being jewish; jewishness.

Meanings of Semitonal:

adjective

Relating to or consisting of a semitone or semitones; (of a scale) chromatic.

Meanings of Semitonally:

adverb

By a semitone or semitones.

Meanings of Semitone:

noun

The smallest interval used in classical western music, equal to a twelfth of an octave or half a tone.

Usage examples:

Smaller intervals were derived on the same principles, so that the octave could eventually be marke…

Meanings of Semitones:

noun

The smallest interval used in classical western music, equal to a twelfth of an octave or half a tone.

Usage examples:

Smaller intervals were derived on the same principles, so that the octave could eventually be marke…

Meanings of Semitonic:

adjective

Relating to or consisting of a semitone or semitones.

Meanings of Semitonically:

adverb

By a semitone or semitones; = semitonally .

Meanings of Semitrailer:

noun

A trailer having wheels at the back but supported at the front by a towing vehicle.

Meanings of Semitrailers:

noun

A trailer having wheels at the back but supported at the front by a towing vehicle.

prefix

Half or partly

Usage examples:

Hugh is a semi-retired manufacturer of machine tools., semi-permanent, semi-skilled, a semi-weekly …

Meanings of Semitransparent:

adjective

Partially or imperfectly transparent.

Usage examples:

The cuticles of mites and spiders are semi-transparent

Meanings of Semitropics:

noun

Another term for subtropics.