Finnish–English dictionary

suhahdus

A sibilant sound, especially that of rapid movement through the air.

suhahtaa

To move with a rushing or swirling sound

suhdannekierto

(economics) A long-term fluctuation in economic activity between growth and recession.

suhde

A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

suhdeluku

(arithmetic) A ratio of two numbers (numerator and denominator), usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar called the vinculum or, alternatively, in sequence on the same line and separated by a solidus (diagonal bar).

suhdeverkosto

(sexuality) A network of connections between people who are in polyamorous relationships, for example between a person, their partner, and that person's partner.

suhina

(cardiology, medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces a noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart.

suhiseva

Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.

suhista

To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.

suhru

A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.

suhta

(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

suhtautua alentuvasti

(transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.

suhtautuminen

(figurative) Disposition or state of mind.

suhteellinen

Approximated by comparison; relative.

suhteellinen enemmistö

(countable) A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast.

suhteellinen korkeus

(topography) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.

suhteessa

In a manner conforming or corresponding to; in proportion to; in accordance with. [from 16th c.]

suhteet

The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).

suhteeton

Not proportionate.

suhteutettu

(mostly, US) In proportion (to), proportionate.

suhuäänne

(phonetics) A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.

suihinotto

(slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

suihke

(countable) A pressurized container; an atomizer.

suihkepullo

A canister whose pressurized contents may be released as an aerosol when a button is pressed.

suihku

A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for irrigation.

suihkukaappi

A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.

suihkukaivo

An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.

suihkulähde

An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.

suihkumoottori

A rocket engine.

suihkuta

To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.

suihkuttaa

(intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.

suikale

A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.

suikaloida

(transitive) To prepare food by cutting it into strips.

suikaloidut vihannekset

(cooking) A garnish of vegetables cut into long, thin strips.

suipentaa

(transitive) To make thinner or narrower at one end.

suipeta

(intransitive) To become thinner or narrower at one end.

suipistaa

(transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.

suippo

Narrowing gradually towards a point.

suippokuonodelfiini

Dolphins of the genus Stenella, and specifically Stenella attenuata distinguished from the streaker (Stenella coeruleoalba) and the spinner (Stenella longirostris).

suippopäinen

Narrowing gradually towards a point.

suippotorni

(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.]

suippotyvinen

(botany, of leaves) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.

suistaa

(transitive, figurative) To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.

suistaa radaltaan

(transitive) To cause to leave orbit.

suistaa raiteilta

(transitive, figurative) To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.

suistaa vallasta

(transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).

suiste

An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.

suisto

A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.

suistua

(intransitive, figurative) To deviate from the previous course or direction.

suistua radaltaan

(transitive) To cause to leave orbit.

suistua raiteilta

(transitive) To cause to come off the tracks.

suitset

(equestrian) The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.

suitsia

(transitive) To restrain; to control; to check.

suitsuke

Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.

suitsuttaa

To perfume with incense.

sujahtaa

(intransitive) To proceed with little effort.

sujauttaa

(transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.

sujua

(transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

sujut

On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.

sujuva

Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently.

sujuvasti

In a fluent manner, as expressing oneself easily, especially in a foreign language.

sujuvoittaa

(transitive, by extension) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.

sujuvuus

(linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; a person's command of a particular language.

suka

An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.

sukellus

The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.

sukelluskykyinen

Able to be submerged.

sukellusvene

Abbreviation of submarine.

sukeltaa

(intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.

sukeltaja

Someone who works underwater; a frogman.

sukeltaminen

The action of the verb to dive in any sense.

sukeltava

That or who dives or dive.

sukia

(transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.

sukka

A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]

sukkah

A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.

sukkahousut

A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.

sukkanauha

A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.

sukkanauhavyö

A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.

sukkela

Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

sukkelasanainen

Clever; amusingly ingenious.

sukkeluus

The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

sukkula

(weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.

sukkulalinja

A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.

sukkulamainen

(chiefly, _, botany, zoology) Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end.

sukkuloida

(intransitive, transitive) To go or send back and forth between two places.

suklaa

Made of or containing chocolate.

suklaakonvehti

(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

suklaanruskea

Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.

suklainen

Made of or containing chocolate.

suklari

Abbreviation of submarine.

suksi

One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.

suku

A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended.

suku-

A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

sukua oleva

(uncommon) Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)

sukuelimet

(by extension) Any sex organs, whether external or internal; body parts responsible for sexual reproduction or sexual stimulation.

sukuelin

Of or relating to the genitalia.

sukuhaara

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.

sukuhistoria

A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage. [from 15th c.]

sukujuuret

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

sukujuuri

(uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.

sukukalleus

(euphemistic, in the plural) The groin or the testicles.

sukukypsyys

When bodily growth has completed and/or reproduction can begin.

sukulainen

A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.

sukulaiset

A person's ancestors, relatives or family.

sukulaissana

(linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.

sukulaisuus

Relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.

sukulaisuussuhde

Relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.

sukulinja

A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.

sukunimi

(archaic, historical) A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.

sukupolvi

(countable, uncommon, possibly, dated) A generation.

sukupuoleton

Without an associated gender (in any sense); not having a particular gender.

sukupuoli

Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.

sukupuoli-identiteetti

(psychology) An individual's internal sense of self as belonging to a particular gender or genders, or to no gender.

sukupuolielimet

(by extension) Any sex organs, whether external or internal; body parts responsible for sexual reproduction or sexual stimulation.

sukupuolielin

(law, euphemism) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.

sukupuolijoustava

(LGBTQ) Not having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.

sukupuolinen

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.]

sukupuolinen identiteetti

Sexual activity; concern with, or interest in, sexual activity.

sukupuolinen vetovoima

Sexual attractiveness. [from 1910s]

sukupuolineutraali

Not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender.

sukupuolirauhanen

(anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.

sukupuolisuus

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

sukupuoliyhdyntä

(formal, now, also, humorous) Sexual intercourse, especially involving penile–vaginal penetration.

sukupuutto

The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.

sukupuuttoon kuollut

(chiefly, biology) Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.

sukusakko

(historical, especially in Germanic, _, legal) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide, distinct from bloodwite.

sukutaulu

A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding. [from 15th c.]

sukututkimus

(uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.

sula

An open space in the ice on a river or lake.

sulaa

(transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.

sulake

(electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.

sulaminen

The act of becoming liquid; melting.

sulamisvesi

The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.

sulattaa

(ergative) To (cause to) decay, to decompose.

sulattaja

The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.

sulatus

The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.

sulatuspata

A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder.

sulatusuuni

(figurative) A place where many divergent things (often races or cultures, but also talents) come together and are homogenized.

sulautettu

part of; firmly, or securely surrounded; lodged solidly into

sulautettu ohjelma

(computing, software) Software that is intended for such embedded computer applications.

sulauttaa

(transitive, or, intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

sulauttaminen

The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,

sulautua

(transitive, or, intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

sulautuma

(legal) An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.

sulautuminen

The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,

sulava

Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.

sulavakäytöksinen

(of a person) Charming though often in a manner that is insincere or sophisticated. [from 1830s]

sulavaliikkeinen

Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.

sulavasti

In a fluent manner, as having graceful movements.

sulfaatti

(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of sulfuric acid.

sulfatoida

(American spelling, transitive, chemistry) To treat something with sulfuric acid, a sulfate, or with sulfur dioxide.