Spanish–English dictionary

sazón

The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.

sazonado

Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.

sazonador

(cooking) Adding a layer of fat to render the surface of cookware non-stick.

sazonante

(cooking) Adding a layer of fat to render the surface of cookware non-stick.

sazonar

(transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

schadenfreude

Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.

Scheherezada

A en given name.

Scheherezade

A en given name.

scon

A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.

scone

A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.

scooter

A motorscooter; a small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.

scopio

Used to make terms denoting an instrument used for viewing or examination.

scout

A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.

scouter

A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.

scouting

The act of one who scouts.

scoutismo

The Scout Movement.

Scrabble

A board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board.

script

(authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.

scrolear

(ambitransitive, computing, GUI) To change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments, typically using an input device or touch screen.

Sculptor

(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way.

sé

Yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.

se dice

(impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.

se murió

No longer existing, having passed.

se te hace la boca agua

That is pleasing to the sense of taste; appetizing; that makes one salivate.

sea cuando sea

At any time.

Seattle

A seaport and the largest city in Washington, United States, and the county seat of King County.

Sebastián

A en given name.

sebe

A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.

sebiche

(cooking) Raw seafood cured by marination in an acidic medium such as citrus, vinegar, or other souring agent, found primarily in Latin America.

sebo

(physiology) A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris.

seboso

Like fat; greasy.

seca

A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.

secado

The air drying of wood.

secador

A cloth used to dry dishes.

secador capilar

(chiefly, _, UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.

secador de pelo

(chiefly, _, UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.

secadora

An electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum.

secadora pilosa

(chiefly, _, UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.

secante

(trigonometry) In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle. Symbol: sec

secapelos

(chiefly, _, UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.

secar

(transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

secarropas

An electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum.

secarse

(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

sección

A part, portion, or subdivision.

sece

The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.

secludido

Hidden, isolated, remote.

secluido

Hidden, isolated, remote.

secluso

Hidden, isolated, remote.

seco

Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful. [from 16th c.]

secoya gigante

(uncountable) Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

secreción

(symptom, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.

secretaria

An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.

secretario

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

secretario general

A person presiding over a meeting.

secretear

(transitive) To conceal.

secreter

(chiefly, British) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers.

secretismo

The habit of keeping secrets.

secretista

Having an inclination to secrecy.

secretividad

Concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden.

secretivo

Having an inclination to secrecy.

secreto

Understood by only a few.

secta

(chiefly, derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.

sector

(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

secuela

Any delayed effect; an effect which is not immediately manifested.

secuelas

A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.

secuencia

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

secuencial

(programming) Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism.

secuestración

The act of one who hijacks (in any sense).

secuestrador

One who abducts; a kidnapper. [mid 19th century]

secuestradora

One who is holding a captive or captives.

secuestrar

(transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. [Early 17th century.]

secuestro

Leading away; a carrying away. [from early 17th century.]

secular

Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical; profane.

secularismo

Neutrality towards all religions.

secundar

(transitive) To assist or support; to back.

secundario

Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary.

secura

(uncountable) A lack of moisture.

sed

(by extension) Any strong desire or need.

sed de sangre

A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.

sedación

The act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.

sedante

(pharmaceutical effect) Calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing

sedar

To calm or put (a person) to sleep using a sedative drug.

sedativo

(pharmaceutical effect) Calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing

sede

The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.

sede central

The center of an organization's operations or administration.

sedentario

(rare) Always fixed in the same location; stationary.

sedera

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.

sedición

An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.

sedicioso

Of, pertaining to, or caused by factions.

sediento

Very thirsty.

sedimento

(archaic, chiefly, in the plural) Dregs, sediment.

sedimentos fluviales

(uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

sedoso

Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk.

seducción

The act of seducing.

seducir

(transitive) To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship. [1550s]

seductivo

Sexually seductive.

seductor

A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.

seductora

A woman who seduces.

seductriz

A woman who seduces.

seer

(auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.

segador

An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones; any individual of this order.

segar

(transitive) To cut down grass or crops.

seglar

Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical; profane.

segmentar

(ambitransitive) To divide into segments or sections.

segmento

(geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.

Segor

(biblical) One of the Pentapolis, the five ancient cities in the Jordan valley.

segregación

(countable) Any substance that is secreted by an organism.

segregar

(transitive) To separate.

segueta

A saw consisting of a metal frame having a fine-toothed narrow blade held under tension, used in making curved cuts.

seguido

Frequently; many times on different occasions.

seguidor

Someone who publicly promotes or endorses (something or someone); a fan or supporter.

seguir

(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).

seguir siendo

(not comparable) Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time

seguirse

(obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. [15th–17th c.]

según

Based on what is said or stated by; on the authority of; by the order of.

según parece

Seemingly; in appearance.

segunda

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

segunda mano

(of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.

segunda vuelta

(politics) A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.

segundar

To do again.

segundo

Relating to or being the second of two items.

segundo plano

A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).

segur

(agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

segurador

A person or company that provides a guarantee.

seguramente

In all likelihood.

seguranza

(uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.

segurar

(transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.

segureja

A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.

seguridad

The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.

seguridad social

(uncountable) Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.

seguro

(with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to

seis

The digit or figure 6.

seise

A boy chorister.

seiseno

The ordinal form of the number six.

Selandia

The largest island of Denmark.

selección

One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

selección natural

(evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

seleccionada

The quality of being chosen.

seleccionado

The quality of being chosen.

seleccionado cuidadosamente

(figurative) Selected with great care or by insiders or an individual.

seleccionar

To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).

selectivo

(sociology) Of a society, having a class structure.

selecto

(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Selena

A en given name.

Selene

(Greek god) The goddess of the Moon.

selenio

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

selenita

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth's Moon (Luna): either an indigenous one or a human one.

selenito

(inorganic chemistry) The anion SeO32− derived from selenous acid; any salt or ester of selenous acid.

selenografía

(astronomy, geography, cartography) The scientific study of the Moon's geographic features; geography of the Moon.

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.