13-letter words starting with si
- silver iodide — a pale-yellow, water-insoluble solid, AgI, which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in medicine, photography, and artificial rainmaking.
- silver lining — a sign of hope in an unfortunate or gloomy situation; a bright prospect: Every cloud has a silver lining.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- silver surfer — elderly internet user
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
- silver-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
- silver-haired — having silver coloured hair
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- simon bolivar — Simón [sahy-muh n;; Spanish see-mawn] /ˈsaɪ mən;; Spanish siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("El Libertador") 1783–1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule.
- simple minded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- simple-minded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- simscript i.5 — A version of SIMSCRIPT developed at CACI in 1965. It produced assembly language.
- simware, inc. — (company) The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
- sindonologist — a student of sindonology
- singing hinny — a type of currant cake popular in NE England which, when cooked on a griddle, makes a singing noise
- singing voice — the musical quality of a voice when a person is singing
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single parent — mother or father without a partner
- single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
- single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
- single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
- single ticket — a one-way ticket.
- single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
- single-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work only in one direction. Compare double-acting (def 1).
- single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
- single-barrel — a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
- single-celled — having or containing a single cell
- single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
- single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
- single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- single-handed — accomplished or done by one person alone: a single-handed victory; single-handed sailing.
- single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
- single-minded — having or showing a single aim or purpose: a single-minded program.
- single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
- single-seater — a vehicle that has only one seat
- single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
- single-suiter — one-suiter.
- single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.