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service mark a symbol, word, design, slogan, or the like, used as identification by a particular company that supplies a service such as insurance, laundry, or transportation.
service station a place that provides services for motor vehicles, as by selling gas and oil and by making repairs. [2 definitions]
service stripe a stripe worn on the left sleeve of a military uniform to show the amount of time the wearer has spent in active military service.
servicewoman a woman who is a member of the armed forces.
serviette (chiefly British) a small square piece of cloth or paper used for wiping one's hands and mouth at mealtimes; napkin.
servile very submissive to another's authority; slavish. [2 definitions]
serving the act of someone or something that serves. [3 definitions]
servitor a person who acts as an attendant for another; servant.
servitude bondage or slavery. [2 definitions]
servo part of or pertaining to a servomechanism. [2 definitions]
servomechanism an automatic regulator, such as a thermostat, that controls a mechanical device.
servomotor the motor that powers a servomechanism.
sesame a tropical herb bearing small, flat, oval seeds that yield oil and are used in food. [2 definitions]
Sesheshet the mother of King Teti, the Egyptian ruler who was the first pharaoh of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty in the third millenium B.C.E.
sesqui- one and one half.
sesquicentennial of or pertaining to a time span of 150 years. [2 definitions]
sesquipedalian inclined to use long words. [3 definitions]
sessile of a leaf or the like, attached at the base directly to the stem of the plant. [2 definitions]
session a legislative or judicial meeting or meetings. [5 definitions]
sestet the group of six lines that forms the second stanza of an Italian sonnet. (Cf. octave.)
sestina a poem, consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, that repeats the end words of the first stanza in varying combinations throughout.