English words starting with sip

Meanings of Sip:

verb

Drink (something) by taking small mouthfuls.

Usage examples:

I sat sipping coffee

noun

A small mouthful of liquid.

Usage examples:

She took a sip of the red wine

Meanings of Sipes:

noun

A groove or channel in the tread of a tyre to improve its grip.

Usage examples:

A greater number of sipes ensures good traction.

Meanings of Siphon:

noun

A tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord. once the liquid has been forced into the tube, typically by suction or immersion, flow continues unaided.

Usage examples:

In the extinguisher, a plastic siphon tube leads from the bottom of the fire-suppressant reservoir …

verb

Draw off or convey (liquid) by means of a siphon.

Usage examples:

A piece of tubing was used to siphon petrol

Meanings of Siphon-off:

phrasal verb

To gradually steal money or goods, usually from a business or government

Usage examples:

Over the years, she siphoned off hundreds of thousands of dollars from various accounts.

Meanings of Siphoned:

verb

Draw off or convey (liquid) by means of a siphon.

Usage examples:

A piece of tubing was used to siphon petrol

noun

A tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord. once the liquid has been forced into the tube, typically by suction or immersion, flow continues unaided.

Usage examples:

In the extinguisher, a plastic siphon tube leads from the bottom of the fire-suppressant reservoir …

Meanings of Siphoning:

verb

Draw off or convey (liquid) by means of a siphon.

Usage examples:

A piece of tubing was used to siphon petrol

noun

A tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord. once the liquid has been forced into the tube, typically by suction or immersion, flow continues unaided.

Usage examples:

In the extinguisher, a plastic siphon tube leads from the bottom of the fire-suppressant reservoir …

Meanings of Siphonophora:

plural noun

An order of colonial marine coelenterates that includes the portuguese man-of-war, having a float or swimming bell for drifting or swimming on the open sea.

Usage examples:

These creatures are probably relatives of the siphonophora, an order of colonial cnidarians that in…

Meanings of Siphonophore:

noun

A colonial marine coelenterate of the order siphonophora, such as a portuguese man-of-war.

Usage examples:

Chondrophorines were once classified with another unusual group of hydrozoans, the siphonophores.

Meanings of Siphonostele:

noun

A stele consisting of a core of pith surrounded by concentric layers of xylem and phloem.

Meanings of Siphonostely:

noun

A stele consisting of a core of pith surrounded by concentric layers of xylem and phloem.

Meanings of Siphons:

noun

A tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord. once the liquid has been forced into the tube, typically by suction or immersion, flow continues unaided.

Usage examples:

In the extinguisher, a plastic siphon tube leads from the bottom of the fire-suppressant reservoir …

verb

Draw off or convey (liquid) by means of a siphon.

Usage examples:

A piece of tubing was used to siphon petrol

Meanings of Siphuncle:

noun

(in shelled cephalopods such as nautiloids and ammonoids) a calcareous tube containing living tissue running through all the shell chambers, serving to pump fluid out of vacant chambers in order to adjust buoyancy.

Usage examples:

The dorsal siphuncles of the clymeniida tend to be larger than the ventral siphuncles of other ammo…

Meanings of Siphuncled:

noun

(in shelled cephalopods such as nautiloids and ammonoids) a calcareous tube containing living tissue running through all the shell chambers, serving to pump fluid out of vacant chambers in order to adjust buoyancy.

Usage examples:

The dorsal siphuncles of the clymeniida tend to be larger than the ventral siphuncles of other ammo…

Meanings of Siphunculata:

noun

Another term for anoplura.

Meanings of Sipped:

verb

Drink (something) by taking small mouthfuls.

Usage examples:

I sat sipping coffee

noun

A small mouthful of liquid.

Usage examples:

She took a sip of the red wine

Past simple and past participle of sip

Meanings of Sippet:

noun

A small piece of bread or toast, used to dip into soup or sauce or as a garnish.

Usage examples:

Serve with sippets of toast or plain rusks.

Meanings of Sippets:

noun

A small piece of bread or toast, used to dip into soup or sauce or as a garnish.

Usage examples:

Serve with sippets of toast or plain rusks.

Meanings of Sipping:

verb

Drink (something) by taking small mouthfuls.

Usage examples:

I sat sipping coffee

noun

A small mouthful of liquid.

Usage examples:

She took a sip of the red wine

Present participle of sip

Meanings of Sips:

verb

Drink (something) by taking small mouthfuls.

Usage examples:

I sat sipping coffee

noun

A small mouthful of liquid.

Usage examples:

She took a sip of the red wine

Meanings of Sipunculida:

noun

Sipuncula.

Meanings of Sipunculoid:

noun

An animal of the phylum or group sipuncula (formerly sipunculoidea or sipunculoida), a peanut worm.

adjective

Of or relating to the phylum or group sipuncula (formerly sipunculoidea or sipunculoida).

Meanings of Sipunculus:

noun

Originally: any animal of the group sipuncula; = "sipunculan". in later use chiefly as the genus name sipunculus.