Words That End With: SI

• an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board

• A member of the Mafia.

• A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.

• A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

• An exceptionally fine and valuable fibre or cloth of ancient times. Originally used for fine flax and linens, the word was later extended to fine cottons, silks, and sea silk.

• The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured.

• The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like.

• A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

• Any creature or thing of gigantic size.

• Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.

• the basic unit of money in Gambia

• an adult male singer with the lowest voice

• the lowest adult male singing voice