English words starting with si

Meanings of Si:

noun

Another term for ti.

abbreviation

The international system of units of measurement.

The chemical element silicon.

Meanings of Sialagogue:

noun

A drug that promotes the secretion of saliva.

Usage examples:

Treatment is simple and includes resting the voice, along with warm sialogogues for symptom relief.

Meanings of Sialogogue:

noun

A drug that promotes the secretion of saliva.

Usage examples:

Treatment is simple and includes resting the voice, along with warm sialogogues for symptom relief.

Meanings of Siamang:

noun

A large black gibbon native to sumatra and malaya.

Usage examples:

During this period 11 to 16 million years ago, known as the miocene, there was an evolutionary spli…

Meanings of Siamangs:

noun

A large black gibbon native to sumatra and malaya.

Usage examples:

During this period 11 to 16 million years ago, known as the miocene, there was an evolutionary spli…

Meanings of Siamese:

noun

A native of siam (now thailand) in se asia.

Usage examples:

By the end of the angkor era, the kingdom of kambuja-desa came under increased pressure from the si…

adjective

Old-fashioned term for thai (the language).

Meanings of Siamese-twins:

noun

Conjoined twins (= two people with the same mother who were born at the same time, with some part of their bodies joined together)

Meanings of Sib:

noun

A brother or sister; a sibling.

Usage examples:

In contrast, males that encountered mole-rat scent behaved differently, in several ways, to their s…

abbreviation

Securities and investment board, a regulatory body that oversees london's financial markets.

Meanings of Sibboleth:

noun

A custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important.

Usage examples:

The majority, under the influence of vague nineteenth-century shibboleths, understood him to be ass…

Meanings of Siberia:

proper noun

A vast region of russia that extends from the ural mountains to the pacific ocean and from the arctic coast to the northern borders of kazakhstan, mongolia, and china. noted for the severity of its winters, it was traditionally used as a place of exile; it is now a major source of minerals and hydroelectric power.

noun

An extremely cold, barren, or inhospitable place.

Usage examples:

In baseball games i could count on being sent out to the siberia known as right field

Meanings of Siberian:

adjective

Relating to siberia or its people.

Usage examples:

The siberian plains near the arctic circle

noun

A native or inhabitant of siberia.

Usage examples:

A soviet-era war memorial to siberians

Meanings of Siberians:

noun

A native or inhabitant of siberia.

Usage examples:

A soviet-era war memorial to siberians

adjective

Relating to siberia or its people.

Usage examples:

The siberian plains near the arctic circle

Meanings of Sibilance:

noun

The fact of making a "s" or "sh" sound

Usage examples:

The sibilance of his whispering voice

Meanings of Sibilant:

adjective

Making or characterized by a hissing sound.

Usage examples:

His sibilant whisper

noun

A sibilant speech sound.

Usage examples:

He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as mu…

Meanings of Sibilate:

verb

Utter with a hissing sound.

Usage examples:

Two gentlemen turned round to me and sibilated the word ‘poet’

Meanings of Sibilated:

verb

Utter with a hissing sound.

Usage examples:

Two gentlemen turned round to me and sibilated the word ‘poet’

Meanings of Sibilates:

verb

Utter with a hissing sound.

Usage examples:

Two gentlemen turned round to me and sibilated the word ‘poet’

Meanings of Sibilating:

verb

Utter with a hissing sound.

Usage examples:

Two gentlemen turned round to me and sibilated the word ‘poet’

Meanings of Sibling:

noun

Each of two or more children or offspring having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.

Usage examples:

My father has always supported my siblings and me

Meanings of Siblings:

noun

Each of two or more children or offspring having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.

Usage examples:

My father has always supported my siblings and me

Meanings of Sibs:

noun

A brother or sister; a sibling.

Usage examples:

In contrast, males that encountered mole-rat scent behaved differently, in several ways, to their s…

abbreviation

Securities and investment board, a regulatory body that oversees london's financial markets.

Meanings of Sibship:

noun

A group of offspring having the same two parents.

Usage examples:

What is the level of correlated mating within sibships and what is the level of correlated paternit…

Meanings of Sibships:

noun

A group of offspring having the same two parents.

Usage examples:

What is the level of correlated mating within sibships and what is the level of correlated paternit…

Meanings of Sibyl:

noun

A woman in ancient times who was thought to utter the prophecies of a god.

Usage examples:

Looking on are the prophets and sibyls, the mysterious seers of man's tragedy.

Meanings of Sibylline:

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic and mysterious.

Usage examples:

One glimpses them, uttering sibylline predictions of weal and woe