Name Report For First Name SHEA:
SHEA
First name SHEA's origin is Irish. SHEA means "majestic". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SHEA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of shea.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with SHEA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with SHEA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming SHEA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SHEA AS A WHOLE:
alyshea lashea shealyn o'shea shearyNAMES RHYMING WITH SHEA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (hea) - Names That Ends with hea:
dorothea alethea amalthea eidothea leucothea panthea penthea philothea rhea thea timothea annathea bethea mathea matthea cumhea anthea althea eletheaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ea) - Names That Ends with ea:
aurea chelsea dorotea aeaea airlea althaea antea anticlea astraea cytherea ennea gaea galatea medea metea orea penthesilea thaddea alamea kamea maylea amalea floarea andrea mircea alesea aletea alexandrea alurea anndreea audrea bernadea boadicea bodiccea bodicea boudicea brea clodovea deandrea dukinea dulcinea erea galea holea janea kailea kaylea kealsea kelsea kolleea lea leondrea linnea maitea mattea nacumbea orquidea shawnasea trinitea gildea costea tea dea ricwea pennlea kea harelea graeglea fearnlea aenedlea marea matea azalea nicea lydea astrea edrea nerea enea kalea hoseaNAMES RHYMING WITH SHEA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (she) - Names That Begins with she:
sheedy sheehan sheelah sheena sheffield sheila sheilah sheiling sheiramoth shekinah shelbi shelby shelden sheldon shelley shelly shelny shelomo shelton shem shemariah shemus shepard shephard shepherd shepley sheply sherard sherborne sherbourn sherbourne sherburne shereef sheridan sherif sherise sherlock sherman shermarke shermon sheron sherrer sherri sherry sherwin sherwood sherwyn sheshebens shet sheyRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (sh) - Names That Begins with sh:
sha-mia sha-ul shaaban shaan shabab shabaka shace shad shada shadd shaddoc shaddock shadha shadi shadia shadiyah shadoe shadrach shadwell shae shaela shaeleigh shaelynn shafeeq shafiq shahana shaheen shahrazad shai shaibya shailey shain shaina shaine shaithis shakeh shaker shakini shakir shakira shaku shalene shalom shalott shamay shamika shamra shamus shan shanahanNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SHEA:
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'a':
saa saada saadya saba sabana sabina sabiya sabola sabra sabria sabrina sadaka sadhbba sadira safa safia safiya sagira sahara saida saina sakeena sakima sakra sakujna sakura salama salbatora saleema salma saloma salvadora salvatora salwa samantha samara sameeha sameera samira samoanna samuela samuka samvarta sanaa sancha sancia sanda sandhya sandra sanjna sanora sanura sanya sapphira sara sarama sarika sarina sarisha sarita sasa sasha saskia sativola saturnina sauda saumya saura savanna savarna saxona saxonia sayda sbtinka scadwiella scota scotia scowyrhta scylla seafra seaghda seana seanna sebastiana seda seentahna segunda seina sela selena seleta selima selina selma semira senalda senona senora senta seorsaEnglish Words Rhyming SHEA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SHEA AS A WHOLE:
| capsheaf | noun (n.) The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing. |
| cockshead | noun (n.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods. |
| crosshead | noun (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead. |
| disheartening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishearten |
| disheartenment | noun (n.) Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits. |
| hogshead | noun (n.) An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe. |
| noun (n.) A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; esp. one containing from 100 to 140 gallons. |
| missheathed | adjective (a.) Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. |
| sheaf | noun (n.) A sheave. |
| noun (n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. | |
| noun (n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. |
| sheafy | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf. |
| sheal | noun (n.) Same as Sheeling. |
| noun (n.) A shell or pod. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put under a sheal or shelter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod. |
| shealing | noun (n.) The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell. |
| noun (n.) Same as Sheeling. |
| shearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shear |
| noun (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. | |
| noun (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Shearling. | |
| noun (n.) The act or operation of reaping. | |
| noun (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates. | |
| noun (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. | |
| noun (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. |
| shearbill | noun (n.) The black skimmer. See Skimmer. |
| sheard | noun (n.) See Shard. |
| shearer | noun (n.) One who shears. |
| noun (n.) A reaper. |
| shearling | noun (n.) A sheep but once sheared. |
| shearman | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to shear cloth. |
| shearn | noun (n.) Dung; excrement. |
| shears | noun (n.) A cutting instrument. |
| noun (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances. | |
| noun (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins. | |
| noun (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge. | |
| noun (n.) Anything in the form of shears. | |
| noun (n.) A pair of wings. | |
| noun (n.) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. | |
| noun (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. |
| sheartail | noun (n.) The common tern. |
| noun (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail. |
| shearwater | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon. |
| sheatfish | noun (n.) A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid. |
| sheath | noun (n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard. |
| noun (n.) Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part. | |
| noun (n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses. | |
| noun (n.) One of the elytra of an insect. |
| sheathbill | noun (n.) Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas. |
| sheating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheathe |
| sheathed | adjective (a.) Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath. |
| adjective (a.) Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Sheathe |
| sheather | noun (n.) One who sheathes. |
| sheathfish | noun (n.) Same as Sheatfish. |
| sheathing | noun (n.) That which sheathes. |
| noun (n.) The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing. | |
| noun (n.) The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general. | |
| adjective (p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants. |
| sheathless | adjective (a.) Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed. |
| sheathy | adjective (a.) Forming or resembling a sheath or case. |
| sheaved | adjective (a.) Made of straw. |
| sheepshead | noun (n.) A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SHEA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (hea) - English Words That Ends with hea:
| althea | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. |
| noun (n.) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family. |
| blennorrhea | noun (n.) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. |
| noun (n.) Gonorrhea. |
| bohea | noun (n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea. |
| barathea | noun (n.) A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern. |
| diarrhea | noun (n.) Alt. of Diarrhoea |
| dysmenorrhea | noun (n.) Difficult and painful menstruation. |
| gonorrhea | noun (n.) Alt. of Gonorrhoea |
| promethea | noun (n.) A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band. |
| philathea | noun (n.) An international, interdenominational organization of Bible classes of young women. |
| rhea | noun (n.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass. |
| noun (n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich. |
| seborrhea | noun (n.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea. |
| spermatorrhea | noun (n.) Alt. of Spermatorrhoea |
| stearrhea | noun (n.) seborrhea. |
| thea | noun (n.) A genus of plants found in China and Japan; the tea plant. |
| trachea | noun (n.) The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung. |
| noun (n.) One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids. | |
| noun (n.) One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SHEA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (she) - Words That Begins with she:
| shebander | noun (n.) A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies. |
| shebang | noun (n.) A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop. |
| shebeen | noun (n.) A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold. |
| shechinah | noun (n.) See Shekinah. |
| shecklaton | noun (n.) A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton. |
| shed | noun (n.) A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed. |
| noun (n.) A parting; a separation; a division. | |
| noun (n.) The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed. | |
| noun (n.) That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed. | |
| noun (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads. | |
| noun (n.) A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar. | |
| verb (v. t.) To separate; to divide. | |
| verb (v. t.) To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover. | |
| verb (v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall in drops; to pour. | |
| verb (v. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Shed |
| shedding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shed |
| noun (n.) The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood. | |
| noun (n.) That which is shed, or cast off. |
| shedder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears. |
| noun (n.) A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state. |
| shelfa | noun (n.) Alt. of Shilfa |
| sheeling | noun (n.) A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed. |
| sheely | noun (n.) Same as Sheelfa. |
| sheen | noun (n.) Brightness; splendor; glitter. |
| verb (v. t.) Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shine; to glisten. |
| sheeny | adjective (a.) Bright; shining; radiant; sheen. |
| sheep | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia. |
| noun (n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow. | |
| noun (n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd. |
| sheepback | noun (n.) A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural. |
| sheepberry | noun (n.) The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry. |
| sheepbiter | noun (n.) One who practices petty thefts. |
| sheepcot | noun (n.) Alt. of Sheepcote |
| sheepcote | noun (n.) A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold. |
| sheepfold | noun (n.) A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined. |
| sheephook | noun (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. |
| sheepish | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to sheep. |
| adjective (a.) Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess. |
| sheepmaster | noun (n.) A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep. |
| sheeprack | noun (n.) The starling. |
| sheepshank | noun (n.) A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened. |
| sheepskin | noun (n.) The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it. |
| noun (n.) A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep. |
| sheepsplit | noun (n.) A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine. |
| sheepy | adjective (a.) Resembling sheep; sheepish. |
| sheering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheer |
| sheer | noun (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side. |
| noun (n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it. | |
| noun (n.) A turn or change in a course. | |
| noun (n.) Shears See Shear. | |
| verb (v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed. | |
| verb (v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin. | |
| verb (v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. | |
| verb (v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular. | |
| adverb (adv.) Clean; quite; at once. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shear. | |
| verb (v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle. |
| sheerwater | noun (n.) The shearwater. |
| sheeting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheet |
| noun (n.) Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width. | |
| noun (n.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment. | |
| noun (n.) The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets. |
| sheetful | noun (n.) Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold. |
| sheik | noun (n.) The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. |
| sheil | noun (n.) Alt. of Sheiling |
| sheiling | noun (n.) See Sheeling. |
| shekel | noun (n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock. |
| noun (n.) A jocose term for money. |
| shekinah | noun (n.) The visible majesty of the Divine Presence, especially when resting or dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy seat, in the Tabernacle, or in the Temple of Solomon; -- a term used in the Targums and by the later Jews, and adopted by Christians. |
| sheld | adjective (a.) Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald. |
| sheldafle | noun (n.) Alt. of Sheldaple |
| sheldaple | noun (n.) A chaffinch. |
| sheldfowl | noun (n.) The common sheldrake. |
| sheldrake | noun (n.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. |
| noun (n.) Any one of the American mergansers. |
| shelduck | noun (n.) The sheldrake. |
| shelfy | adjective (a.) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. |
| adjective (a.) Full of strata of rock. |
| shell | noun (n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal. |
| noun (n.) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell. | |
| noun (n.) A pod. | |
| noun (n.) The hard covering of an egg. | |
| noun (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering. | |
| noun (n.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb. | |
| noun (n.) The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms. | |
| noun (n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house. | |
| noun (n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell. | |
| noun (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works. | |
| noun (n.) The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve. | |
| noun (n.) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell. | |
| noun (n.) Something similar in form or action to an ordnance shell; | |
| noun (n.) A case or cartridge containing a charge of explosive material, which bursts after having been thrown high into the air. It is often elevated through the agency of a larger firework in which it is contained. | |
| noun (n.) A torpedo. | |
| noun (n.) A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape. | |
| noun (n.) A gouge bit or shell bit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters. | |
| verb (v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping. |
| shelling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shell |
| noun (n.) Groats; hulled oats. |
| shellac | noun (n.) See the Note under 2d Lac. |
| shellapple | noun (n.) See Sheldafle. |
| shellbark | noun (n.) A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SHEA:
English Words which starts with 's' and ends with 'a':
| sabadilla | noun (n.) A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative. |
| sabella | noun (n.) A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head. |
| saccharilla | noun (n.) A kind of muslin. |
| saccoglossa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Pellibranchiata. |
| sadda | noun (n.) A work in the Persian tongue, being a summary of the Zend-Avesta, or sacred books. |
| saga | noun (n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time. |
| (pl. ) of Sagum |
| sagitta | noun (n.) A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow. |
| noun (n.) The keystone of an arch. | |
| noun (n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string. | |
| noun (n.) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chaetognatha. |
| saiga | noun (n.) An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears. |
| saiva | noun (n.) One of an important religious sect in India which regards Siva with peculiar veneration. |
| salamandrina | noun (n.) A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders. |
| salamandroidea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela. |
| salangana | noun (n.) The salagane. |
| salina | adjective (a.) A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea. |
| adjective (a.) Salt works. |
| salisburia | noun (n.) The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, or Salisburia adiantifolia). |
| saliva | noun (n.) The secretion from the salivary glands. |
| salpa | noun (n.) A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| salsoda | noun (n.) See Sal soda, under Sal. |
| salsola | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort. |
| saltarella | noun (n.) See Saltarello. |
| saltatoria | noun (n. pl.) A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets. |
| salvia | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the sage. See Sage. |
| samara | noun (n.) A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit. |
| samarra | noun (n.) See Simar. |
| sanga | noun (n.) Alt. of Sangu |
| sanguinaria | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Poppy family. |
| noun (n.) The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc. |
| sanhita | noun (n.) A collection of vedic hymns, songs, or verses, forming the first part of each Veda. |
| sankha | noun (n.) A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell. |
| sankhya | noun (n.) A Hindoo system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness. |
| sapodilla | noun (n.) A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (Achras Sapota); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum. |
| sapota | noun (n.) The sapodilla. |
| sappodilla | noun (n.) See Sapodilla. |
| sapucaia | noun (n.) A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot. |
| sarcina | noun (n.) A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group. |
| sarcocolla | noun (n.) A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers. |
| sarcoderma | noun (n.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments. |
| noun (n.) A sarcocarp. |
| sarcolemma | noun (n.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma. |
| sarcoma | noun (n.) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance. |
| sarcophaga | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums. |
| noun (n.) A genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies. |
| sarracenia | noun (n.) A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant. |
| sarsa | noun (n.) Sarsaparilla. |
| sarsaparilla | noun (n.) Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax. |
| noun (n.) The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc. |
| sassarara | noun (n.) A word used to emphasize a statement. |
| sassorolla | noun (n.) The rock pigeon. See under Pigeon. |
| sastra | noun (n.) Same as Shaster. |
| saturnalia | noun (n. pl.) The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves. |
| noun (n. pl.) Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence. |
| sauria | noun (n. pl.) A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia. |
| saurobatrachia | noun (n. pl.) The Urodela. |
| sauropoda | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many dinosaurs. It includes the largest known land animals, belonging to Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| sauropsida | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds. |
| sauropterygia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Plesiosauria. |
| savanilla | noun (n.) The tarpum. |
| savanna | noun (n.) A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees. |
| saxicava | noun (n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks. |
| saxifraga | noun (n.) A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage. |
| scaglia | noun (n.) A reddish variety of limestone. |
| scagliola | noun (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished. |
| scala | noun (n.) A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus. |
| noun (n.) A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea. |
| scalaria | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap. |
| scaliola | noun (n.) Same as Scagliola. |
| scampavia | noun (n.) A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century. |
| scandia | noun (n.) A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium. |
| scaphopda | noun (n. pl.) A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha. |
| scapula | noun (n.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade. |
| noun (n.) One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise. |
| scarlatina | noun (n.) Scarlet fever. |
| scena | noun (n.) A scene in an opera. |
| noun (n.) An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. |
| schema | noun (n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect. |
| schisma | noun (n.) An interval equal to half a comma. |
| schizonemertea | noun (n. pl.) A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| schizopoda | noun (n. pl.) A division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming. |
| scholia | noun (n. pl.) See Scholium. |
| (pl. ) of Scholium |
| sciatica | noun (n.) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic. |
| scincoidea | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of lizards including the skinks. See Skink. |
| scintilla | noun (n.) A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle. |
| sciuromorpha | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others. |
| sclerema | noun (n.) Induration of the cellular tissue. |
| sclerenchyma | noun (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. |
| noun (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals. |
| scleroderma | noun (n.) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin. |
| sclerodermata | noun (n. pl.) The stony corals; the Madreporaria. |
| scleroma | noun (n.) Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis. |
| scolecida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Helminthes. |
| scolecomorpha | noun (n. pl.) Same as Scolecida. |
| scolopendra | noun (n.) A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped. |
| noun (n.) A sea fish. |
| scopula | noun (n.) A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web. |
| noun (n.) A special tuft of hairs on the leg of a bee. |
| scoria | noun (n.) The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross. |
| noun (n.) Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders. |
| scorpiodea | noun (n. pl.) Same as Scorpiones. |
| scorpionidea | noun (n. pl.) Same as Scorpiones. |
| scotia | noun (n.) A concave molding used especially in classical architecture. |
| noun (n.) Scotland |
| scotoma | noun (n.) Scotomy. |
| scrobicula | noun (n.) One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin. |
| scrofula | noun (n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption). |
| scrophularia | noun (n.) A genus of coarse herbs having small flowers in panicled cymes; figwort. |
| scuta | noun (n. pl.) See Scutum. |
| (pl. ) of Scutum |
| scutella | noun (n. pl.) See Scutellum. |
| noun (n.) See Scutellum, n., 2. | |
| (pl. ) of Scutellum |
| scutibranchia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Scutibranchiata. |
| scutibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike. |
| scybala | noun (n. pl.) Hardened masses of feces. |
| scylla | noun (n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand. |
| scyllaea | noun (n.) A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest. |
| scypha | noun (n.) See Scyphus, 2 (b). |
| scyphistoma | noun (n.) The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian. |
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