9-letter words containing e, a, t, l, i
- retailing — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- retaliate — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- reticella — a form of lace popular from the 15th to the 17th centuries
- reticular — having the form of a net; netlike.
- retinular — of or relating to the retinula
- retrieval — the act of retrieving.
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- reviolate — to violate again
- rightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- ritualize — to practice ritualism.
- rutilated — containing fine, embedded needles of rutile.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saliently — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- salt mine — a mine from which salt is excavated.
- saltiness — tasting of or containing salt; saline.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sassolite — the mineral form of boric acid found in the saline deposits of the hot springs near Sasso in Tuscany, H3BO3
- satellite — Astronomy. a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon.
- satelloid — a low-altitude satellite using engines with small thrust to maintain its orbit.
- scaletail — a squirrel in the family Anomaluridae possessing scales on the underside of the tail
- scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
- sceptical — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- sciential — having knowledge.
- sea blite — any of several halophytic herbs of the genus Suaeda, having fleshy leaves.
- sectarial — distinguishing or differentiating a sect
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- semimetal — an element with properties both of a metal and of a non-metal; a metalloid
- serialist — a writer of serials
- seriality — a serial layout or arrangement; the quality of taking place in series
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
- sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- sidetable — a small table at the side of a room
- sigillate — (of a ceramic object) having stamped decorations.
- silicates — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- simmental — one of a large breed of cattle, yellowish-brown to red and white, originally of Switzerland, used for milk and beef and as a draft animal.
- simulated — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- slaistery — resembling slaister
- slantwise — aslant; obliquely.
- slatelike — resembling slate