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Word Unit: set-, seto-, seti- + (Latin: bristle [short stiff hair on an animal or plant, or a mass of short stiff hairs growing; especially, on a hog's back or a man's face]).

Word Unit: sex- (Latin: sexus; originally it meant "division" and is related to secare, "to cut". Don't confuse this "sex" element with another one that means "six").

Related "sex, sexism, sexual lust, sexual deviation" word units: aphrodi-; -cest-; eroto-; lagneuo-; -lagnia; masochism; porno-; Sadism-; satyr-; sodom-; whore.

Word Unit: sex-, sexi-, sext- (Latin: six, sixth).

Word Unit: sheol + (Hebrew: the grave; hell; pit [a gloomy netherworld for departed spirits; Shoel is the counterpart of Hades and Tartarus]).

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "bury, burial, cemetery, grave; sleeping place": coimetro-; Epitaphs; funer-; sepulc-; tapho-.

Word Unit: Shrews: A Variety of Shrew Species (just a few of the many species of shrews).

Other related "shrew" units:

shrews word units.

Knowledge: Animals, Elephant Shrews.

Word Unit: shrine + (Latin: scrinium, a case, chest, box, or receptacle; especially, one in which are deposited sacred relics, bones of a saint, or sacred books and documents).

Word Unit: sialo-, sial- + (Greek: saliva (suh LIGH vuh); spittle, foam from the mouth; the salivary glands).

Other related saliva and/or spittle units: ptyalo-; salivo-; sput-.

Word Unit: sicca-, sicc- (Latin: drying, dry, withered).

Word Unit: sidero-, sider- (iron) (Greek: iron; things made of iron).

Word Unit: sidero-, sider- (star) + (Latin: star, stars).

Word Unit: sigma (Greek: the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet).

Word Unit: sigmoido-, sigmo- + (Greek: sigmoeides, shaped like the letter sigma; pertaining to the sigmoid flexure, the S-shaped bend in the colon; a combining form that usually denotes the sigmoid colon).

Word Unit: sign- (Latin: mark, token, sign).

Word Unit: silen- (Latin: absence of sound; quiet, still).

Word Unit: silhouette (French: an outline portrait or an illustration of one color).

Word Unit: silico-, silic- (Latin: flint, quartz, sand; a crystalline compound [SiO2]).

Other related "sand" units: amatho-; ammo-; areni-; thino-.

Word Unit: Silk: Past and Present (Origins of silk and present production).

Word Unit: simal-, simil-, simul-, -semble (Latin: same, like, alike; same time; to appear, to seem; together).

Word Unit: sincer- + (Latin: sound, pure, clean, whole, genuine, untainted).

Word Unit: singl-, singular- (Latin: one each, one at a time).

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