SOMA
First name SOMA's origin is Europe. SOMA means "horn". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SOMA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of soma.(Brown names are of the same origin (Europe) with SOMA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming SOMA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SOMA AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH SOMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (oma) - Names That Ends with oma:
ifeoma neoma roma donoma poloma algoma nakoma oma paloma saloma thoma teoma thenoma leoma fomaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Ends with ma:
adama fatuma halima mariama neema salama esma alima asima huma lama na'ima numa ulima mukarramma rehema selma thema jurma aselma erma cyma desma thelma kalama acima jemima carma kama ahisma karma padma ruma sarama sharama uma vema gulielma massima kimama shima adima juma lema tessema usama chuma jorma adharma alma aluma arama delma dharma dreama elma ema emma eskama faoiltiama fatima fidelma hilma jemma kahlima kalima karima karisma kuwanyauma lalima lodima lodyma menachema myma nadhima nehama okimma purisima salma selima sima suma tama telma temimaNAMES RHYMING WITH SOMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (som) - Names That Begins with som:
somer somerled somerset somerton somerville somhairleRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (so) - Names That Begins with so:
sobk socorro socrates sodonia sofia sofian sofie sofier sofiya sokanon sokw sol solaina solaine solana solange soledad soledada soleil solomon solon solona solonie solvig son sondra songaa sonia sonnie sonny sonrisa sonya sooleawa sophia sophie sophronia sorcha soredamors sorel soren sorin sorina sorine sorley sorrell sosanna soterios souad souleah soumra soun sousroqa southwell sowi'ngwa soyalaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SOMA:
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 salbatora saleema salvadora salvatora salwa samantha samara sameeha sameera samira samoanna samuela samuka samvarta sanaa sancha sancia sanda sandhya sandra sanjna sanora sanura sanya sapphira sara 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 selina semira senalda senona senora senta seorsa serafina seraphina serefina serena serenata serhildaEnglish Words Rhyming SOMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SOMA AS A WHOLE:
asomatous | adjective (a.) Without a material body; incorporeal. |
dipsomania | noun (n.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism. |
dipsomaniac | noun (n.) One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks. |
dipsomaniacal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to dipsomania. |
gymnosomata | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Pteropoda. They have no shell. |
heterosomati | noun (n. pl.) An order of fishes, comprising the flounders, halibut, sole, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi. |
hydrosoma | noun (n.) All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds. |
metasomatism | noun (n.) An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization. |
metensomatosis | noun (n.) The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another. |
musomania | noun (n.) See Musicomania. |
oreosoma | noun (n. pl.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface. |
perisoma | noun (n.) Same as Perisome. |
phyllosoma | noun (n.) The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp. |
prosoma | noun (n.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod. |
pro thyalosoma | noun (n.) The investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle. |
ransomable | adjective (a.) Such as can be ransomed. |
soma | noun (n.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. |
somaj | noun (n.) Alt. of Samaj |
somali | noun (n.) Alt. of Somal |
somal | noun (n.) A Hamitic people of East Central Africa. |
somatic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo. |
somatical | adjective (a.) Somatic. |
somatics | noun (n.) The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology. |
somatist | noun (n.) One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. |
somatocyst | noun (n.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx. |
somatology | noun (n.) The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics. |
noun (n.) A treatise on the human body; anatomy. | |
noun (n.) The science which treats of anatomy and physiology, apart from psychology. | |
noun (n.) The consideration of the physical characters of races and classes of men and of mankind in general. |
somatome | noun (n.) See Somite. |
somatopleure | noun (n.) The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure. |
somatopleuric | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the somatopleure. |
somatotropism | noun (n.) A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs. |
thecosomata | noun (n. pl.) An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See Pteropoda. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SOMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (oma) - English Words That Ends with oma:
aboma | noun (n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma). |
angioma | noun (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels. |
noun (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood or lymph vessels. |
aroma | noun (n.) The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee. |
noun (n.) Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius. |
atheroma | noun (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter. |
noun (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries. |
adenoma | noun (n.) A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. |
adipoma | noun (n.) A mass of fat found internally; also, a fatty tumor. |
branchiostoma | noun (n.) The lancelet. See Amphioxus. |
broma | noun (n.) Aliment; food. |
noun (n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it. |
carcinoma | noun (n.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. |
ceroma | noun (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans. |
noun (n.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves. | |
noun (n.) The cere of birds. |
chiloma | noun (n.) The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel. |
chilostoma | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Chilostomata |
chondroma | noun (n.) A cartilaginous tumor or growth. |
coma | noun (n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus. |
noun (n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet. | |
noun (n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. |
condyloma | noun (n.) Alt. of Condylome |
croma | noun (n.) A quaver. |
cyclostoma | noun (n. pl.) A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures. |
coloboma | noun (n.) A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft. |
diploma | noun (n.) A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution. |
distoma | noun (n.) A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2. |
enchondroma | noun (n.) A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. |
endostoma | noun (n.) A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea. |
epistoma | noun (n.) Alt. of Epistome |
epithelioma | noun (n.) A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer. |
fibroma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue. |
glaucoma | noun (n.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball. |
glioma | noun (n.) A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system. |
gnathostoma | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. |
gyroma | noun (n.) A turning round. |
hematoma | noun (n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin. |
hypostoma | noun (n.) The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc. |
leucoma | noun (n.) A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo. |
lipoma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue. |
loma | noun (n.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap. |
lymphadenoma | noun (n.) See Lymphoma. |
lymphoma | noun (n.) A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma. |
melastoma | noun (n.) A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth. |
menopoma | noun (n.) Alt. of Menopome |
metastoma | noun (n.) Alt. of Metastome |
myoma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting of muscular tissue. |
myxoma | noun (n.) A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord. |
melanoma | noun (n.) A tumor containing dark pigment. |
noun (n.) Development of dark-pigmented tumors. |
neuroma | noun (n.) A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers. |
noma | noun (n.) See Canker, n., 1. |
osteoma | noun (n.) A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone. |
osteosarcoma | noun (n.) A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone. |
papilloma | noun (n.) A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillae of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart. |
pelioma | noun (n.) A livid ecchymosis. |
noun (n.) See Peliom. |
peristoma | noun (n.) Same as Peristome. |
pleurotoma | noun (n.) Any marine gastropod belonging to Pleurotoma, and ether allied genera of the family Pleurotmidae. The species are very numerous, especially in tropical seas. The outer lip has usually a posterior notch or slit. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SOMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (som) - Words That Begins with som:
somber | noun (n.) Alt. of Sombre |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Sombre | |
verb (v. t.) Alt. of Sombre |
sombre | noun (n.) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. |
adjective (a.) Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house. | |
adjective (a.) Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections. | |
verb (v. t.) To make somber, or dark; to make shady. |
somberness | noun (n.) Alt. of Sombreness |
sombreness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being somber; gloominess. |
sombrero | noun (n.) A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America. |
sombrous | adjective (a.) Gloomy; somber. |
some | adjective (a.) Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some. |
adjective (a.) A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically; as, some man, that is, some one man. | |
adjective (a.) Not much; a little; moderate; as, the censure was to some extent just. | |
adjective (a.) About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence. | |
adjective (a.) Considerable in number or quality. | |
adjective (a.) Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinct from other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another. | |
adjective (a.) A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions. |
somebody | noun (n.) A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person. |
noun (n.) A person of consideration or importance. |
somersault | noun (n.) Alt. of Somerset |
somerset | noun (n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. |
something | noun (n.) Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. |
noun (n.) A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little. | |
noun (n.) A person or thing importance. | |
adverb (adv.) In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance. |
sometime | adjective (a.) Having been formerly; former; late; whilom. |
adverb (adv.) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly. | |
adverb (adv.) At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes. | |
adverb (adv.) At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. |
sometimes | adjective (a.) Former; sometime. |
adverb (adv.) Formerly; sometime. | |
adverb (adv.) At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. |
somewhat | noun (n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. |
noun (n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody. | |
adverb (adv.) In some degree or measure; a little. |
somite | noun (n.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere. |
sommeil | noun (n.) Slumber; sleep. |
sommerset | noun (n.) See Somersault. |
somnambular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic. |
somnambulation | noun (n.) The act of walking in sleep. |
somnambulator | noun (n.) A somnambulist. |
somnambule | noun (n.) A somnambulist. |
somnambulic | adjective (a.) Somnambulistic. |
somnambulism | noun (n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism. |
somnambulist | noun (n.) A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist. |
somnambulistic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist. |
somner | noun (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. |
somnial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams. |
somniative | adjective (a.) Somnial; somniatory. |
somniatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial. |
somniculous | adjective (a.) Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy. |
somniferous | adjective (a.) Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. |
somnific | adjective (a.) Causing sleep; somniferous. |
somnifugous | adjective (a.) Driving away sleep. |
somniloquence | noun (n.) The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism. |
somniloquism | noun (n.) The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy. |
somniloquist | noun (n.) One who talks in his sleep. |
somniloquous | adjective (a.) Apt to talk in sleep. |
somniloquy | noun (n.) A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. |
somnipathist | noun (n.) A person in a state of somniapathy. |
somnipathy | noun (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like. |
somnolence | noun (n.) Alt. of Somnolency |
somnolency | noun (n.) Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep. |
somnolent | adjective (a.) Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. |
somnolism | noun (n.) The somnolent state induced by animal magnetism. |
somnopathy | noun (n.) Somnipathy. |
somnour | noun (n.) A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour. |
somonaunce | noun (n.) Alt. of Somonce |
somonce | noun (n.) A summons; a citation. |
sommonour | noun (n.) A summoner. |
sompnour | noun (n.) A summoner. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SOMA:
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. |