(derogatory) A person who is primarily concerned with being esteemed and valued by others, at the expense of forming his/her own independent worldview. A person who derives their decisions from the worldview of others; with the sole metric of merit based off of how others will receive and accept their decision not based on merit or truth but on popular perception.

plural of second-hander

(tennis) second serve

(physics) A derived SI unit of luminous energy.

(aviation) The flight engineer of an aircraft.

(historical) A female house-servant responsible for relatively light work, such as chamber-work or waiting at table.

(Slavic linguistics) A sound change occurring in Proto-Slavic, which caused palatalization of velar consonants under certain circumstances, resulting in the hushing sounds c /ts/, s /s/ or š /ʃ/, and (d)z /(d)z/.

Penultimate, next to last, immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.

(fine art) That part of a picture between the foreground and the background; the middle distance.

plural of second name