Finnish–English dictionary

soutumatka

(countable) A journey made by rowing.

soutuvene

(US) A small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing).

soveliaisuus

The quality or condition of being appropriate.

sovelias

Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.

sovellettu

Put into practical use.

sovellus

(computing, mobile phones) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.

sovellusalusta

(computing) A particular operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software; a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used for running other software.

soveltaa

(transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

soveltaa keinotekoista tekniikkaa

(also, figuratively) To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.). [from early 15th c.]

soveltaminen

The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.

soveltava

Put into practical use.

soveltua

(transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case

soveltuminen

(countable, uncountable, followed by to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

soveltuva

Suitable for application, relevant.

soveltuvuus

(uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

sovereign

A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+1⁄3 standard bottles.

sovinismi

(pejorative) Unwarranted bias, favoritism, or devotion to one's own particular group, cause, or idea.

sovinisti

(pejorative) A chauvinistic person.

sovinistinen

Pertaining to chauvinism.

sovinnainen

Conforming to established customs, etc.

sovinnaisuus

(uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior.

sovinnollinen

Showing friendliness or goodwill.

sovinnonteko

The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.

sovinto

An agreement.

sovite

The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.

sovitella

(transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

sovitettu

Having been subject to an alteration or change to fit a different circumstance or medium.

sovitin

Specifically, a device that allows one format of plug to be used with a different format of socket.

sovittaa

(transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

sovittaa jonkun tason mukaiseksi

(transitive) To adjust or adapt to a certain level.

sovittaa vauhti

In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).

sovittaa yhteen

(transitive, bioinformatics) To organize a linear arrangement of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences which have regions of similarity.

sovittaja

One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.

sovittaminen

(uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.

sovittautua

(intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).

sovittavissa

Able to agree; possible to be agreed.

sovitteleva

Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

sovittelija

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.

sovittelunhaluinen

Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

sovitteluratkaisu

The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.

sovittu

Indicates agreement on the part of the speaker.

sovittu tapaaminen

Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.

sovitus

(countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.

sovitusmalli

(countable) A dressmaker's pattern made from inexpensive cloth for fitting.

spa

A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.

spaatteli

(chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.

spaddu

(colloquial, countable) A cigarette.

spägä

(informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

spagaatti

A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.

spagetti

(uncountable, figuratively, informal) Something confusing or intricate.

spagettiliittymä

(road transport) Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.

spämmätä

(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.

spanieli

Any of various small to medium-sized breeds of gun dog having a broad muzzle, long, wavy fur and long ears that hang at the side of the head, bred for flushing and retrieving game.

sparrata

To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.

sparraus

The act of one who spars.

Sparta

An ancient city-state in southern Greece, noted for its strict military training.

Spartacus

A Thracian name, notably borne by a gladiator who was one of the slave leaders in a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.

spartalainen

Of or relating to Sparta or its citizens.

spasmi

A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.

spawnata

(ergative, video games) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.

speck-kinkku

(uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.

speedway

(uncountable) A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.

speedwayrata

A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.

speksata

(transitive, idiomatic) To specify, especially in detail.

speksi

(Australia, Australian rules football, informal) Clipping of spectacular mark, a type of catch in Australian rules football.

spektaakkeli

(by extension) An instance of fantastical, unrestrained, lavish, or chaotic behaviour or conduct.

spektri

Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.

spektri-

Of, or pertaining to, spectra; classified according to frequency or wavelength (of light etc.).

spektrometri

(analytical chemistry) An optical instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances; typically it will plot a graph of absorption versus wavelength or frequency, and the patterns produced are used to identify the substances present, and their internal structure.

spekulaatio

(business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.

spekulatiivinen

Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.

spekulatiivinen investointi

(business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.

spekuloida

(intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.

speltti

A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.

spelttivehnä

A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.

sperma

(uncountable) Semen.

spermaseetti

(chemistry) Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti.

spermaseettiöljy

(chemistry) Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti.

spesiaatio

(chemistry) The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes.

spesialisoitua

(biology, transitive) To make distinct or separate due to form or function.

spesialisti

Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.

spesialiteetti

That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent; bailiwick.

spesifikaatio

An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.

spesifioida

(transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.

spesifioiminen

An act of specifying.

spesifiointi

An act of specifying.

spiidi

(slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a stimulant, especially illegally.

spiira

(architectural element) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. [from 16th c.]

spin

(quantum mechanics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.

spin off

An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.

spin off -ohjelma

(fiction) A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect.

spin off -yritys

The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.

spinaalinen

(anatomy, zootomy) Of or relating to the spine.

spinnata

(transitive) To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work.

spiraali

(geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.

spiritismi

(uncountable) The use of such a board to attempt to communicate with spirits.

spiritismi-istunto

A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium.

spiritisti

A follower of Spiritism.

spiritistinen

Of or pertaining to, or associated, dealing, concerned, or connected with, spiritism (a.k.a. modern spiritualism); spiritualistic.

spirituaali

A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.

spiritualisti

(philosophy) One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.

spiritualistinen

Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.

spitaalinen

A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.

splättis

(countable) The dye-filled capsule fired in the sport of paintball.

spliffi

(slang) A marijuana cigarette.

Split

A port city in Croatia.

splitti

(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

spoilata

(transitive) To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.

spoileri

A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc. [from 1970s]

sponsori

A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.

sponsorius

(uncountable) The state or practice of being a sponsor.

sponsoroida

(transitive) To be a sponsor for.

sponsorointi

(countable, uncountable) The aid or support provided by a sponsor; backing or patronage.

spontaani

Not posed or rehearsed.

spontaanisti

In a spontaneous manner; naturally; voluntarily.

spontaanisuus

(uncountable) The quality of being spontaneous.

spooffata

(transitive, computing) To falsify.

sporadinen

Rare and scattered in occurrence.

sporadisesti

At an occasional, infrequent, or irregular frequency.

sporttihenkinen

Fond of sports.

sposti

(uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of computers connected together in a network.

spot-

(commerce, finance) Available on the spot; for immediate payment or delivery.

spotti

A bright lamp; a spotlight.

spray

(countable) Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.

sprayhood

(countable, nautical) A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.

spread

(trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.

spredi

(trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.

sprii

(usually, in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.

spriidari

(nautical) A horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast.

Sprite

A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink.

spurtti

A short run, flight.

sputnik

(historical) Any of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.

sputteroida

(physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.

spyygatti

(nautical) A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.

srapnelli

(military, historical) The bullets or balls from the aforementioned type of artillery shell.

staagi

A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.

staasi

(pathology) A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.

staattinen

Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.

staattori

The stationary part of a motor or other machine.

stabilaattori

Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.

stabilisaattori

(mathematics) For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.

stabilointi

(uncountable) The process of stabilizing.

stabilointiaine

Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.

stadion

A venue where sporting events are held.

stafylokokki

A bacterium, often found on the skin and nose, that commonly causes staph infections, technically known as Staphylococcus aureus.

stagflaatio

(economics) Prolonged high inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, often with recession and high unemployment. [from 1965]

stailata

(transitive, informal) To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.

Stalin

A surname from Russian; usually referring to the Georgian revolutionary and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Joseph Stalin.

stalinismi

The Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

stamina

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.