Words in english starting with S

• silkily — Adverb – English ～ in a silky manner; "the young wheat shone silkily"; "`Darling,' she said silkily"
• silkiness — Noun – English ～ the smooth feel of silk fabric
• silklike — Adjective – English ～ having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters"
• silks — Noun – English ～ the brightly colored garments of a jockey; emblematic of the stable
• silkscreen — Verb – English ～ print by silkscreen
• silkscreen — Noun – English ～ a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil
• silkweed — Noun – English ～ any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
• silkwood — Noun – English ～ a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves
• silkworm — Noun – English ～ larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
• silkworm — Noun – English ～ the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk
• silkworm seed — Noun – English ～ eggs of a silkworm
• silkworm moth — Noun – English ～ moderate-sized Asiatic moth whose larvae feed on mulberry leaves and produce silk
• silkworm moth — Noun – English ～ any silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae
• silky pocket mouse — Noun – English ～ small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico
• silky dogwood — Noun – English ～ shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit
• silky dogwood — Noun – English ～ shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel
• silky cornel — Noun – English ～ shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit
• silky oak — Noun – English ～ medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia
• silky anteater — Noun – English ～ squirrel-sized South American toothless anteater with long silky golden fur
• silky elm — Noun – English ～ large tree of Australasia

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