Name Report For First Name STEM:
STEM
First name STEM's origin is English. STEM means "austere". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with STEM below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of stem.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with STEM and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with STEM - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming STEM
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES STEM AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH STEM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (tem) - Names That Ends with tem:
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (em) - Names That Ends with em:
iverem nadeem nazeem yateem azeem hakeem hakem naeem ephrem colleem taydem yem bem drem efrem grahem jassem jem kareem kaseem kazem kentigem menachem qaseem saleem salem shem vortigem willem winwodem jerem waseem hasheem rosem reem jakeemNAMES RHYMING WITH STEM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ste) - Names That Begins with ste:
steadman stearc stearn steathford stedeman stedman steele stefan stefana stefania stefanie stefano stefford stefn stefon stein steiner steise stela step stepan stephan stephana stephania stephanie stephen stephenie stephenson stephon sterling sterlyn stern sterne stetson stevan steve steven stevenson stevie stevon stevyn steward stewart stewertRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (st) - Names That Begins with st:
stacey stacie stacy stacyann staerling stafford stamfo stamford stamitos stan stanb stanbeny stanburh stanbury stanciyf stancliff stanclyf standa standish stanedisc stanfeld stanfield stanford stanhop stanhope stanislav stanley stanly stanton stantu stantun stanway stanweg stanwi stanwic stanwick stanwik stanwode stanwood stanwyk star starbuck starla starlene starling starls starr stasia staunton stayton stheno stiabhan stigols stil stiles stilleNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH STEM:
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'm':
salim segenam selam serafim seraphim shalom shyam siham sim stormEnglish Words Rhyming STEM
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES STEM AS A WHOLE:
| ablastemic | adjective (a.) Non-germinal. |
| abstemious | adjective (a.) Abstaining from wine. |
| adjective (a.) Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. | |
| adjective (a.) Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet. | |
| adjective (a.) Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life. | |
| adjective (a.) Promotive of abstemiousness. |
| abstemiousness | noun (n.) The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance. |
| anisostemonous | adjective (a.) Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals. |
| apostemation | noun (n.) The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. |
| apostematous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme. |
| aposteme | noun (n.) An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. |
| blastema | noun (n.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows. |
| blastemal | adjective (a.) Relating to the blastema; rudimentary. |
| blastematic | adjective (a.) Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal. |
| cytoblastema | noun (n.) See Protoplasm. |
| destemper | noun (n.) A kind of painting. See Distemper. |
| diastem | noun (n.) Intervening space; interval. |
| noun (n.) An interval. |
| diastema | noun (n.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw. |
| diplostemonous | adjective (a.) Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. |
| diplostemony | noun (n.) The condition of being diplostemonous. |
| distempering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distemper |
| distemperance | noun (n.) Distemperature. |
| distemperate | adjective (a.) Immoderate. |
| adjective (a.) Diseased; disordered. |
| distemperature | noun (n.) Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. |
| noun (n.) Disorder; confusion. | |
| noun (n.) Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. | |
| noun (n.) Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness. |
| distemperment | noun (n.) Distempered state; distemperature. |
| epistemology | noun (n.) The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge. |
| haplostemonous | adjective (a.) Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous. |
| homosystemic | adjective (a.) Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates. |
| isostemonous | adjective (a.) Having exactly as many stamens as petals. |
| isostemony | noun (n.) The quality or state of being isostemonous. |
| melostemonous | adjective (a.) Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla. |
| meristem | noun (n.) A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division. |
| nectostem | noun (n.) That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in the Siphonophora. |
| obdiplostemonous | adjective (a.) Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers. |
| obdiplostemony | noun (n.) The condition of being obdiplostemonous. |
| pipestem | noun (n.) The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. |
| stem | noun (n.) Alt. of Steem |
| noun (n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top. | |
| noun (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry. | |
| noun (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. | |
| noun (n.) A branch of a family. | |
| noun (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout. | |
| noun (n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean. | |
| noun (n.) The entire central axis of a feather. | |
| noun (n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian. | |
| noun (n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base. | |
| verb (v. i.) Alt. of Steem | |
| verb (v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves. | |
| verb (v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole. | |
| verb (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. |
| stemming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stem |
| stemless | adjective (a.) Having no stem; (Bot.) acaulescent. |
| stemlet | noun (n.) A small or young stem. |
| stemma | noun (n.) One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus. |
| noun (n.) One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod. |
| stemmer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs). |
| stemmery | noun (n.) A large building in which tobacco is stemmed. |
| stemmy | adjective (a.) Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc. |
| stemple | noun (n.) A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step. |
| stemson | noun (n.) A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow. |
| system | noun (n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system. |
| noun (n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe. | |
| noun (n.) Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business. | |
| noun (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n. | |
| noun (n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity. | |
| noun (n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. |
| systematic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Systematical |
| systematical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study. |
| adjective (a.) Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical. | |
| adjective (a.) Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. |
| systematism | noun (n.) The reduction of facts or principles to a system. |
| systematist | noun (n.) One who forms a system, or reduces to system. |
| noun (n.) One who adheres to a system. |
| systematization | noun (n.) The act or operation of systematizing. |
| systematizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Systematize |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH STEM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (tem) - English Words That Ends with tem:
| item | noun (n.) An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill. |
| noun (n.) A hint; an innuendo. | |
| noun (n.) A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather. | |
| adverb (adv.) Also; as an additional article. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a note or memorandum of. |
| montem | noun (n.) A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school. |
| totem | noun (n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH STEM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ste) - Words That Begins with ste:
| stead | noun (n.) Place, or spot, in general. |
| noun (n.) Place or room which another had, has, or might have. | |
| noun (n.) A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. | |
| noun (n.) A farmhouse and offices. | |
| verb (v. t.) To help; to support; to benefit; to assist. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill place of. |
| steadfast | adjective (a.) Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. |
| adjective (a.) Not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady. |
| steadfastness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy. |
| steadiness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being steady. |
| steading | noun (n.) The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery. |
| steady | noun (n.) Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm. |
| noun (n.) Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object. | |
| noun (n.) Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily. |
| steadying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steady |
| steal | noun (n.) A handle; a stale, or stele. |
| verb (v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another. | |
| verb (v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means. | |
| verb (v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away. | |
| verb (v. t.) To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look. | |
| verb (v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft. | |
| verb (v. i.) To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively. |
| stealing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steal |
| noun (n.) The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. | |
| noun (n.) That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural. |
| stealer | noun (n.) One who steals; a thief. |
| noun (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. |
| stealthful | adjective (a.) Given to stealth; stealthy. |
| stealthiness | noun (n.) The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth. |
| stealthlike | adjective (a.) Stealthy; sly. |
| steam | noun (n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. |
| noun (n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage. | |
| noun (n.) Any exhalation. | |
| verb (v. i.) To emit steam or vapor. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam. | |
| verb (v. i.) To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well. | |
| verb (v. t.) To exhale. | |
| verb (v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc. |
| steaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steam |
| steamboat | noun (n.) A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers. |
| steamboating | noun (n.) The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats. |
| noun (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. |
| steamer | noun (n.) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat. |
| noun (n.) A steam fire engine. See under Steam. | |
| noun (n.) A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations. | |
| noun (n.) A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture. | |
| noun (n.) The steamer duck. |
| steaminess | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness. |
| steamship | noun (n.) A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer. |
| steamy | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty. |
| stean | noun (n. & v.) See Steen. |
| steaningp | noun (n.) See Steening. |
| steapsin | noun (n.) An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids. |
| stearate | noun (n.) A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates. |
| stearic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow. |
| stearin | noun (n.) One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate. |
| stearolic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid. |
| stearone | noun (n.) The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate. |
| stearoptene | noun (n.) The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elaeoptene. |
| stearrhea | noun (n.) seborrhea. |
| stearyl | noun (n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid. |
| steatite | noun (n.) A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color. It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone. |
| steatitic | noun (n.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite. |
| steatoma | noun (n.) A cyst containing matter like suet. |
| steatomatous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of steatoma. |
| steatopyga | noun (n.) A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women. |
| steatopygous | adjective (a.) Having fat buttocks. |
| stee | noun (n.) A ladder. |
| steed | noun (n.) A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose. |
| steedless | adjective (a.) Having no steed; without a horse. |
| steel | noun (n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon. |
| noun (n.) An instrument or implement made of steel | |
| noun (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor. | |
| noun (n.) A chalybeate medicine. | |
| noun (n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax. | |
| noun (n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities. | |
| noun (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel. |
| steeling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steel |
| noun (n.) The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. |
| steeler | noun (n.) One who points, edges, or covers with steel. |
| noun (n.) Same as Stealer. |
| steelhead | noun (n.) A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. |
| noun (n.) The ruddy duck. |
| steeliness | noun (n.) The quality of being steely. |
| steely | adjective (a.) Made of steel; consisting of steel. |
| adjective (a.) Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel. |
| steelyard | noun (n.) A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards. |
| steem | noun (n. & v.) See Esteem. |
| noun (n. & v.) See 1st and 2nd Stem. | |
| noun (n.) A gleam of light; flame. | |
| verb (v. i.) To gleam. |
| steen | noun (n.) A vessel of clay or stone. |
| noun (n.) A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening. | |
| verb (v. t.) To line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH STEM:
English Words which starts with 's' and ends with 'm':
| sabaeanism | noun (n.) Same as Sabianism. |
| sabaeism | noun (n.) Alt. of Sabaism |
| sabaism | noun (n.) See Sabianism. |
| sabbatarianism | noun (n.) The tenets of Sabbatarians. |
| sabbatism | noun (n.) Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest. |
| sabeism | noun (n.) Same as Sabianism. |
| sabellianism | noun (n.) The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n. |
| sabianism | noun (n.) The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry. |
| saccharum | noun (n.) A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane. |
| sacciform | adjective (a.) Having the general form of a sac. |
| sacellum | noun (n.) An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity. |
| noun (n.) A small monumental chapel in a church. |
| sachem | noun (n.) A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore. |
| sachemdom | noun (n.) The government or jurisdiction of a sachem. |
| sacramentalism | noun (n.) The doctrine and use of sacraments; attachment of excessive importance to sacraments. |
| sacrarium | noun (n.) A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity. |
| noun (n.) The adytum of a temple. | |
| noun (n.) In a Christian church, the sanctuary. |
| sacrum | noun (n.) That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis. |
| sadduceeism | noun (n.) Alt. of Sadducism |
| sadducism | noun (n.) The tenets of the Sadducees. |
| sagapenum | noun (n.) A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. |
| sagum | noun (n.) The military cloak of the Roman soldiers. |
| saim | noun (n.) Lard; grease. |
| saintdom | noun (n.) The state or character of a saint. |
| saintism | noun (n.) The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness. |
| saivism | noun (n.) The worship of Siva. |
| salaam | noun (n.) Same as Salam. |
| verb (v. i.) To make or perform a salam. |
| salam | noun (n.) A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead. |
| saliniform | adjective (a.) Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt. |
| salm | noun (n.) Psalm. |
| sam | adjective (a.) Together. |
| samarium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element of doubtful identity. |
| sanatorium | noun (n.) An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium. |
| sanctum | noun (n.) A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum. |
| sandaliform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a sandal or slipper. |
| sandemanianism | noun (n.) The faith or system of the Sandemanians. |
| sandworm | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore. |
| noun (n.) Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters. | |
| noun (n.) The chigoe, a species of flea. |
| sanhedrim | noun (n.) the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters. |
| sanitarium | noun (n.) A health station or retreat; a sanatorium. |
| santalum | noun (n.) A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood. |
| sarcasm | noun (n.) A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. |
| sarcoderm | noun (n.) Alt. of sarcoderma |
| sarcoseptum | noun (n.) One of the mesenteries of an anthozoan. |
| sargassum | noun (n.) A genus of algae including the gulf weed. |
| satanism | noun (n.) The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit. |
| saturnism | noun (n.) Plumbism. |
| sauseflem | adjective (a.) Having a red, pimpled face. |
| savagism | noun (n.) The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness. |
| sawceflem | adjective (a.) See Sauseflem. |
| saxonism | noun (n.) An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language. |
| scalariform | adjective (a.) Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants. |
| adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to a scalaria. |
| scalebeam | noun (n.) The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. |
| noun (n.) A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard. |
| scalpriform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a chisel; as, the scalpriform incisors of rodents. |
| scandium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44. |
| scaphism | noun (n.) An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died. |
| scapiform | adjective (a.) Resembling a scape, or flower stem. |
| schediasm | noun (n.) Cursory writing on a loose sheet. |
| scheelium | noun (n.) The metal tungsten. |
| schematism | noun (n.) Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies. |
| noun (n.) Particular form or disposition of a thing; an exhibition in outline of any systematic arrangement. |
| schiedam | noun (n.) Holland gin made at Schiedam in the Netherlands. |
| schism | noun (n.) Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause. |
| schizognathism | noun (n.) The condition of having a schizognathous palate. |
| scholasticism | noun (n.) The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. |
| scholium | noun (n.) A marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian. |
| noun (n.) A remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration or a train of reasoning. |
| schoolma'am | noun (n.) A schoolmistress. |
| schoolroom | noun (n.) A room in which pupils are taught. |
| sciolism | noun (n.) The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge. |
| sclavism | noun (n.) Same as Slavism. |
| scleroderm | noun (n.) One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish. |
| noun (n.) One of the Sclerodermata. | |
| noun (n.) Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals. |
| sclerotium | noun (n.) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot. |
| noun (n.) The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium. |
| scobiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings. |
| scomm | noun (n.) A buffoon. |
| noun (n.) A flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt. |
| scopiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a broom or besom. |
| scoriform | adjective (a.) In the form of scoria. |
| scotticism | noun (n.) An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. |
| scoundreldom | noun (n.) The domain or sphere of scoundrels; scoundrels, collectively; the state, ideas, or practices of scoundrels. |
| scoundrelism | noun (n.) The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. |
| scream | noun (n.) A sharp, shrill cry, uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; a shriek; a screech. |
| verb (v. i.) To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech. |
| scribism | noun (n.) The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ. |
| scrim | noun (n.) A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim. |
| noun (n.) Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc. |
| scriptorium | noun (n.) In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. |
| scripturalism | noun (n.) The quality or state of being scriptural; literal adherence to the Scriptures. |
| scrotiform | adjective (a.) Purse-shaped; pouch-shaped. |
| scrotum | noun (n.) The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod. |
| scutelliform | adjective (a.) Scutellate. |
| adjective (a.) Having the form of a scutellum. |
| scutellum | noun (n.) A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. |
| noun (n.) The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax. | |
| noun (n.) One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds; a scutella. |
| scutiform | adjective (a.) Shield-shaped; scutate. |
| scutum | noun (n.) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry. |
| noun (n.) A penthouse or awning. | |
| noun (n.) The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax. | |
| noun (n.) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle. |
| scyphiform | adjective (a.) Cup-shaped. |
| seam | noun (n.) Grease; tallow; lard. |
| noun (n.) The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal. | |
| noun (n.) A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. | |
| noun (n.) A denomination of weight or measure. | |
| noun (n.) The quantity of eight bushels of grain. | |
| noun (n.) The quantity of 120 pounds of glass. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open. |
| secessionism | noun (n.) The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists. |
| sechium | noun (n.) The edible fruit of a West Indian plant (Sechium edule) of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food. |
| sectarianism | noun (n.) The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization. |
| sectarism | noun (n.) Sectarianism. |
| sectionalism | noun (n.) A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national. |
| sectism | noun (n.) Devotion to a sect. |
| secularism | noun (n.) The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity. |
| noun (n.) The tenets or principles of the secularists. |
| securiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of an ax hatchet. |
| sedum | noun (n.) A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop. |
| seem | adjective (a.) To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as. |
| verb (v. t.) To befit; to beseem. |
| seldom | adjective (a.) Rare; infrequent. |
| selenium | noun (n.) A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9. |
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