English dictionary: words starting with sept - page 3

noun

The seventh of the eight parrying positions.

Usage examples:

If someone gets a direct hit against you in septime then i reckon your distance and awareness need …

noun

A group of seven notes, or notes and rests, to be played in the time of a smaller number of notes of the same kind, and usually designated by a figure 7.

adjective

Of or relating to the ionian islands. frequently designating the republic which existed from 1800 to 1807 under russian and ottoman control.

noun

Chiefly in plural. a native or inhabitant of the ionian islands.

adjective

Divided into or consisting of seven parts.

noun

A word of seven syllables.

adjective

Another term for heptavalent.

noun

A group of seven notes, or notes and rests, to be played in the time of a smaller number of notes of the same kind, and usually designated by a figure 7.

noun

A small bone within and on each side of the skull in some vertebrates, especially many amphibians and reptiles, typically associated with the nasolacrimal duct.

adjective

Designating this bone.

noun

A fungus of a genus that includes many kinds that cause diseases in plants.

noun

A subdivision of a clan, originally one in ireland.

Usage examples:

Divided as they were into tribes, septs, and clans and penetrated by family feuds they had little c…

noun

A person who is between 70 and 79 years old.

Usage examples:

Japan's parliament, or diet, has more septuagenarians and octogenarians than almost any other, and …

noun

The state of being a septuagenarian.

noun

A person who is between 70 and 79 years old.

Usage examples:

Japan's parliament, or diet, has more septuagenarians and octogenarians than almost any other, and …

adjective

Aged between seventy and seventy-nine years (inclusive); (also) characteristic of or belonging to a person who is aged between seventy and seventy-nine years.

noun

A person who is between seventy and seventy-nine years old (inclusive); a person aged seventy.

noun

The sunday before sexagesima.

Usage examples:

The novel is cleverly constructed and seems to take this advice as its own template - it is divided…

adjective

Relating to or based on the number seventy; consisting of seventy.

noun

A greek version of the hebrew bible (or old testament), including the apocrypha, made for greek-speaking jews in egypt in the 3rd and 2nd centuries bc and adopted by the early christian churches.

Usage examples:

The three-fold division of the hebrew bible is abandoned in the septuagint.

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the septuagint.

noun

A small, thin, or incomplete septum; specifically (in bryozoans) a poriferous plate in the wall separating adjacent zooids.

adjective

Having or characterized by a septulum or septula.

noun

A small, thin, or incomplete septum; specifically (in bryozoans) a poriferous plate in the wall separating adjacent zooids.

noun

A partition separating two chambers, such as that between the nostrils or the chambers of the heart.

Usage examples:

At this stage also, minor septa and shortened cardinal septum become easily identifiable.

noun

A composition for seven voices or instruments; = "septet".

adjective

Consisting of seven parts or elements.

Usage examples:

Ironically detached, they will not test, one-by-one, the proposed septuple functions of christ's ha…

verb

Multiply (something) by seven; increase sevenfold.

verb

Multiply (something) by seven; increase sevenfold.

adjective

Consisting of seven parts or elements.

Usage examples:

Ironically detached, they will not test, one-by-one, the proposed septuple functions of christ's ha…