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7,169 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

sébacique: sebacic
sébacé: sebaceous
sébamide: sebamide
sébaste: rockfish (Sebastes)
sébastianisme: Sebastianism
sébastianiste: Sebastianist
sébeste: sebesten
sébile: begging bowl
séborrhée: seborrhea
sébum: sebum
sécable: divisible
sécant: intersecting
sécante: secant (trigonometric function)
sécateur: pruning shears, secateurs
sécession: secession
sécessionnisme: secessionism
sécessionniste: secessionist
sécessionniste: secessionist
séchage: drying
séchant: drying
sécher: to dry; to play truant; to dry up, to run out of things to say; to fail
sécheresse: dryness; drought
sécheuse: dryer (laundry appliance)
séchoir: drying room; drying rack; synonym of sèche-cheveux (“hairdryer”); jail
séclusion: seclusion (isolation of an organism as protection from aggression)
sécostéroïde: secosteroid
sécréter: to secrete
sécrétion: secretion
sécrétoire: secretory
sécrété: secreted
sécu: social security
séculaire: a hundred-year-old; centuries old; once-a-century; centennial; ancient, timeless
séculairement: anciently, timelessly
sécularisation: secularization
séculariser: to secularize
sécularisme: secularism (the related political belief in the separation of church and state)
séculier: secular (not specifically religious)
séculièrement: secularly
sécurisation: the act of securing
sécuriser: to secure (to move from a feeling of anxiety to a feeling of security, to an impression of confidence); to put at ease
sécurisé: protected, secure, secured (where one is safe)
sécuritaire: security, public safety; safe
sécurité: security, safety
sécurité de l'emploi: job security
sécurité informatique: computer security
sécurité publique: public safety, public security.
sécurité sociale: social security; social security system
sédanoise: a small size of type
sédatif: sedative (an agent or drug that sedates)
sédatif: sedative
sédation: sedation
sédentaire: sedentary, not nomadic; sedentary, not moving much; sitting around
sédentarisation: sedentarization (settling of a nomadic population)
sédentariser: to settle (set up as a swelling); to settle (establish as a home)
sédentarité: sedentism
sédiment: sediment (all senses)
sédimentaire: sedimentary
sédimentation: sedimentation
sédimenter: to sediment
sédimentologie: sedimentology