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12-letter words starting with si

  • silver maple — a maple, Acer saccharinum, having leaves that are light green above and silvery white beneath.
  • silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
  • silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
  • silver paper — silver foil.
  • silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
  • silver plate — thin coat of silver
  • silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
  • silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
  • silver state — Nevada (used as a nickname).
  • silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
  • silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
  • silvester ii — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
  • silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
  • simcity 2000 — (games)   An upgraded version of the game/simulation SimCity by Maxis Software. In the new version you can raise, lower and level terrain; build roads and railways at 45-degree angles; name things in your city by planting "signs"; build raised highways, subways, and train and bus stations, schools, colleges, hospitals, electricity, water, recreational marinas and zoos. There are three levels of zoom, and the view may be rotated to look at your city from any of the four directions. A query feature which will tell you the zoning, land value, etc. of any square. You get newspapers, advice from council members, graphs, and charts.
  • simhat torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23d day of Tishri, that marks the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings and the beginning of the next cycle
  • simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
  • similarities — the state of being similar; likeness; resemblance.
  • simon legree — Simon, Simon Legree.
  • simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
  • simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
  • simple meter — any time signature in which the upper figure indicates two, three, or four beats per measure, as 2/8, 3/2, 4/4, etc.
  • simple simon — a simpleton.
  • simple sugar — monosaccharide.
  • simple syrup — a thick, sweet liquid, usually prepared from sugar and water and used chiefly as a base for soda fountain flavors.
  • simple tense — a tense of verbs, in English and other languages, not involving the use of an auxiliary verb in addition to the main verb, as for example the past he drowned as opposed to the future he will drown
  • simpleminded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
  • simplicially — from a simplicial point of view
  • simplifiable — having the ability to be made less complicated, clearer, or easier
  • simplon pass — a pass over the Lepontine Alps in S Switzerland, between Brig (Switzerland) and Iselle (Italy). Height: 2009 m (6590 ft)
  • simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
  • sine qua non — an indispensable condition; requisite.
  • singableness — the quality of being singable
  • singing game — a children's game in which the players perform certain actions to the words of a song.
  • single blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
  • single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
  • single entry — an item noted only once.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • single rhyme — a rhyme of monosyllables, as in heart, part.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
  • single-cross — a cross between two inbred lines.
  • single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
  • single-ended — (of a boiler) fired from one end only.
  • single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
  • single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
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