9-letter words starting with sel
- selachian — belonging to the Selachii, a group of fishes comprising the sharks, skates, and rays.
- seldshown — seldom shown
- selecting — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- selective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- selenious — containing tetravalent or bivalent selenium.
- selenitic — of or relating to selenite
- selenosis — a poisoned condition caused by selenium, occurring esp in livestock as a result of the natural presence of selenium in plants and soil
- self-bias — voltage developed on an electrode in a vacuum tube circuit as a result of current flowing through a resistor in a lead to the cathode or to a grid.
- self-care — care of the self without medical or other professional consultation.
- self-feed — to provide a supply of food to (animals) so as to allow them to eat as much and as often as they want. Compare hand-feed (def 1).
- self-harm — injury inflicted deliberately on yourself
- self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- self-help — the act of providing for or helping or the ability to provide for or help oneself without assistance from others.
- self-love — the instinct by which one's actions are directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for one's own advantage.
- self-made — having succeeded in life unaided: He is a self-made man.
- self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- self-pity — pity for oneself, especially a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties, hardships, etc.: We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can.
- self-rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- self-same — You use self-same when you want to emphasize that the person or thing mentioned is exactly the same as the one mentioned previously.
- self-sown — sown by itself, or without human or animal agency, as of a plant grown from seeds dropped from another plant.
- self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
- self-test — a test that can be administered to oneself.
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- self-will — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
- selfishly — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
- selfridge — Harry Gordon, 1857?–1947, British retail merchant, born in the U.S.
- selfwards — in the direction of oneself
- sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
- sellotape — clear sticking tape
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