Finnish–English dictionary

sekasikiö

(figurative) Anything composed of very disparate parts.

sekasointu

(countable, uncountable) A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.

sekasorto

A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.

sekasortoinen

Extremely disorganized or in disarray.

sekasortoinen perääntyminen

(military, also, figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare) , the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.

sekasotku

A confused mess.

sekauinti

(swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. [from 20th c.]

sekava

Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.

sekavasti

In an incoherent manner.

sekavuus

(symptom) A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.

sekka

A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.

sekkari

A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.

šekki

(UK, Commonwealth, Ireland) A written order directing a bank to pay money to a person or entity.

seko

(slang) A crazy or deranged person; a lunatic.

sekobarbitaali

(slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.

sekoitettu

Having two or more separate aspects.

sekoitin

An implement for shaking or mixing.

sekoittaa

(transitive) To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

sekoittaa brandyä (johonkin)

(transitive) To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.

sekoittaa jonkun pää

(idiomatic) To astonish someone; to flabbergast someone.

sekoittaa keskenään

(transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.

sekoittaa perusteellisesti

(transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.

sekoittaminen

The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.

sekoittua

(intransitive) To become mixed together.

sekoitus

A mixture, in some contexts:

sekoitussauva

(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.

sekoitussävytys

(computer graphics) The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.

sekopää

(slang, chiefly, US) An eccentric, strange or crazy person.

sekopäinen

(slang) Crazy; crackpot.

sekretääri

(US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.

seksi

(slang) Sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.

seksikäs

(informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman).

seksikauppa

A shop that sells sex toys, erotic lingerie, pornography etc.

seksikkyys

Sexual attractiveness. [from 1910s]

seksipommi

(by extension) Someone who is very attractive; a sex symbol.

seksismi

Discrimination or different treatment based on sex or gender, especially discrimination against women.

seksisti

A person who discriminates on grounds of sex; someone who practises sexism.

seksistinen

Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.

seksitön

Provoking or showing no sexual desire.

seksityöläinen

A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage. [from 17th c.]

sekstetti

(music) A composition for six voices or instruments.

seksti

(music) The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale; for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth.

sekstiljoona

(US, British, Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.

seksuaalinen

Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes. [from 17th c.]

seksuaalinen kanssakäyminen

(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

seksuaalinen väkivalta

Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. [from around 1350 to 1470]

seksuaalinen vetovoima

(slang) Sex appeal; sex drive.

seksuaalisuus

The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.

seksualiteetti

The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.

sektio

Delivery of a baby through an incision in the womb.

sektori

(geometry) A portion of a circle enclosed by two radii and an arc.

sekulaarinen

Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.

sekunda

Something having a minor flaw.

sekundantti

One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.

sekunti

A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.

sekuntikello

A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.

sekvenssi

A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.

selailla

To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.

selain

(computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.

selällään makaava

Lying on its back.

selänpuoleinen

(anatomy, zootomy) With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.

selata

(transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.

selättää

(transitive) To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome. [from 14th c.]

selätys

(wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.

selaus

A quick skim through the pages of a book.

selebrantti

A person who officiates at a religious ceremony, especially a marriage or the Eucharist.

seleeni

A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as a semiconductor.

selenologia

(chiefly) The scientific study of the Moon’s movements in the heavens and the kinetic influences it has upon and it receives from other astronomical bodies.

selestiini

(mineral) A mineral with orthorhombic crystals, SrSO4, colourless or white with blue and sometimes red shades.

selfie

(informal, mobile phones) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.

selibaatti

One who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community. [from 1869]

selite

A small guide explaining symbols or terminology, especially the legend on a map or chart.

selitellä

To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies. [from 17th c.]

selittää

(transitive, obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve. [Attested from the late 15th century until the mid 17th century.]

selittää luonnollisella tavalla

(transitive) To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.

selittää tarkasti

(transitive) To explain in detail.

selittää tarkemmin

(intransitive, sometimes followed by the prepositions on or upon) To expand/enlarge in detail.

selittää yksityiskohtaisesti

(transitive) To explain in detail.

selittämätön

Impossible to explain; not easily accounted for.

selittämätön siirtymä

(narratology) Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.

selittämättömästi

In an inexplicable manner; for an unknown reason.

selittäminen

The act or process of explaining.

selittävä

Intended to serve as an explanation.

selitykset

(cartography) A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.

selitys

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]

selitys-

Intended to serve as an explanation.

seljat

A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.

seljetä

(by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.

selkä

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

selkäänpuukottaja

A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.

selkäkilpi

A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.

selkäkipu

Pain felt in the back.

selkäkivut

Any pain or ache in the back.

selkämys

The narrow, bound edge of a book that encloses the inner edges of the pages, facing outwards when the book is on a shelf and typically bearing the title and the author's and publisher's name.

selkänauha

A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.

selkänikama

(anatomy) Any of the twelve vertebrae in the chest region of the spine.

selkänoja

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

selkäpurje

(paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids

selkäpuu

(architecture) One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.

selkärangaton

Lacking a backbone; without vertebrae.

selkäranka

The spine of an animal.

selkäreppu

A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.

selkäsauna

The pulsation of the heart.

selkäsiima

(fishing) In longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached.

selkäydin

Unthinking, not carefully considered, (nearly) automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable.

selkeä

Clear; effective.

selkeä-älyinen

Mentally rational; sane.

selkeästi ajatteleva

Of a person, their mind, etc.: able to think and understand clearly; not confused; clear, sharp.

selkeys

The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.

selkeyttää

(ergative, of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make or become clear or bright by freeing from impurities or turbidity.

selkeytyä

(by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.

selkeytys

The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.

selkiytys

The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.

selkkaus

(military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.

selko

(heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.

selkonen

A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.

selkova

A kind of tree in the elm family (genus Zelkova). [from 19th c.]

sellainen

To the (explicitly stated) extent.

sellaisenaan

(idiomatic, of an object) as it is; in its present state or condition, especially as a contractual condition of sale.

sellaista se vain on

(idiomatic) That's life; expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances, usually without complaint

sellakka

A processed secretion of the lac insect, Coccus lacca; used in polishes, varnishes etc.

selleri

A European herb (Apium graveolens) of the carrot family.

sellerinvarsi

(uncountable, vegetable) The stalks of this herb eaten as a vegetable.

selli

A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. [from 18th c.]

sellikaveri

A person with whom one shares a prison cell.

sellisti

Someone who plays the cello.

sellitoveri

A person with whom one shares a prison cell.

sello

A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.

sellofaani

Any of a variety of transparent plastic films, especially one made of processed cellulose.

sellonsoittaja

Someone who plays the cello.

sellu

A mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose).

selluliitti

The dimpled appearance of skin caused by the protrusion of subcutaneous adipose tissue, especially on a woman's hips and thighs.

selluloosa

A complex carbohydrate that forms the main constituent of the cell wall in most plants and is important in the manufacture of numerous products, such as paper, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and explosives.

Selma

(countable) A en given name.

selonteko

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]

selootti

(historical) A zealous follower of Judas of Galilee, who fiercely resented the taxation of the Romans, and whose violence contributed to induce the latter to vow the extermination of the whole race.

selostaa

(intransitive) To provide a commentary; to act as a commentator; to maintain a stream of comments about some event.

selostaja

A person who makes a commentary, particularly

selostus

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]

selusta

(military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

selvä

Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.

selvä se

(idiomatic, formal) Indicating acceptance, often with resignation or acquiescence, of a statement or situation.

selvänäkijä

A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses

selvänäköisyys

(parapsychology) The power to see or perceive things objects or events beyond the natural range of the senses, such as the past or the future.

selvännäkeminen

The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.

selväpäinen

Mentally rational; sane.

selväpuheinen

Speaking in a clear and effective manner; having both good articulation and good elocution.

selvästi

(idiomatic) To a considerably large extent, easily.

selvennys

The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.

selventää

(transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.