6-letter words containing si
- russia — a fine, smooth leather produced by careful tanning and dyeing, especially in dark red: originally prepared in Russia.
- sanusi — a member of an Islamic brotherhood established among the anticolonial Bedouins of North Africa.
- sasine — the granting of legal possession of feudal property
- scsi-1 — (hardware) The original SCSI, as opposed to SCSI-2 or SCSI-3.
- scsi-2 — (hardware) A version of the SCSI command specification. SCSI-2 shares the original SCSI's asynchronous and synchronous modes and adds a "Fast SCSI" mode (<10MB/s) and "Wide SCSI" (16 bit, <20MB/s or rarely 32 bit). Another major enhancement was the definition of command sets for different device classes. SCSI-1 was rather minimalistic in this respect which led to various incompatibilities especially for devices other than hard-disks. SCSI-2 addresses that problem. allowing scanners, hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives, tapes and many other devices to be connected. Normal SCSI-2 equipment (not wide or differential) can be connected to a SCSI-1 bus and vice versa.
- scsi-3 — (hardware) An ongoing standardisation effort to extend the capabilities of SCSI-2. SCSI-3's goals are more devices on a bus (up to 32); faster data transfer; greater distances between devices (longer cables); more device classes and command sets; structured documentation; and a structured protocol model. In SCSI-2, data transmission is parallel (8, 16 or 32 bit wide). This gets increasingly difficult with higher data rates and longer cables because of varying signal delays on different wires. Furthermore, wiring cost and drive power increases with wider data words and higher speed. This has triggered the move to serial interfacing in SCSI-3. By embedding clock information into a serial data stream signal delay problems are eliminated. Driving a single signal also consumes less driving power and reduces connector cost and size. To allow for backward compatibility and for added flexibility SCSI-3 allows the use of several different transport mechanisms, some serial and some parallel. The software protocol and command set is the same for each transport. This leads to a layered protocol definition similar to definitions found in networking. SCSI-3 is therefore in fact the sum of a number of separate standards which are defined by separate groups. These standards and groups are currently: In the meantime a group of manufacturers have proposed an extension of SCSI-2 called Ultra-SCSI which doubles the transfer speed of Fast-SCSI to give 20MByte/s on an 8 bit connection and 40MByte/s on a 16-bit connection.
- seisin — (originally) possession of either land or chattel.
- sepsis — local or generalized invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins: dental sepsis; wound sepsis.
- shansi — Older Spelling. Shanxi.
- shensi — Older Spelling. Shaanxi.
- siabon — a hybrid animal bred from a gibbon and a siamang.
- sialic — the assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and alumina, that comprise the continental portions of the upper layer of the earth's crust.
- sialid — any neuropterous insect of the family Sialidae, comprising the alderflies.
- sialon — a very strong, corrosion-resistant ceramic used in the chemical industry
- sibire — Russian name of Siberia.
- siccan — such
- siccar — sure; certain
- sicced — sic1 .
- sicily — an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean. 9924 sq. mi. (25,705 sq. km). Capital: Palermo.
- sicked — sic1 .
- sicken — disgust
- sicker — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- sickie — Also, sicko. a person who is deranged or perverted.
- sickle — an implement for cutting grain, grass, etc., consisting of a curved, hooklike blade mounted in a short handle.
- sickly — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- sicyon — an ancient city in S Greece, near Corinth.
- sidamo — a member of a people in SW Ethiopia.
- siddha — (in Hinduism) a person who has achieved perfection; a saint
- siddhi — Yoga. a miraculous power imparted by the late stages of intense meditation. Pali iddhi.
- siddur — a Jewish prayer book designed for use chiefly on days other than festivals and holy days; a daily prayer book.
- sider- — sidero-1
- siding — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sidled — to move sideways or obliquely.
- sidley — Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, in Marie Byrd Land. 13,717 feet (4181 meters).
- sidney — Sir Philip, 1554–86, English poet, writer, statesman, and soldier.
- sidrah — a Parashah chanted or read on the Sabbath.
- siècle — century, period, or era
- sieged — the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
- siegen — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia in W Germany, on the Sieg River.
- sieger — a person who besieges
- sienna — a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
- sierra — a chain of hills or mountains, the peaks of which suggest the teeth of a saw.
- siesta — a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.
- sieved — an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter, for straining liquids, etc., especially one with a circular frame and fine meshes or perforations.
- sieyes — Emmanuel Joseph [e-ma-ny-el zhaw-zef] /ɛ ma nüˈɛl ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), ("Abbé Sieyès") 1748–1836, French priest and revolutionist.
- sifaka — either of two large rare arboreal lemuroid primates, Propithecus diadema or P. verreauxi, of Madagascar, having long strikingly patterned or coloured fur: family Indriidae
- siffle — to whistle
- sifnos — a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades group: gold and silver mines. 28 sq. mi. (75 sq. km).
- sifter — a person or thing that sifts.
- sigbus — bus error