6-letter words containing i, l, a
- remail — to send again or forward (an email message)
- renail — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- rerail — to put (a train etc that has been derailed) back on a railway line
- resail — to sail back or again.
- retail — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- retial — a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- rhinal — of or relating to the nose; nasal.
- rialto — an exchange or mart.
- ribald — vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.
- ritual — an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- s-mail — snail mail.
- sailer — Anton [ahn-tohn] /ˈɑn toʊn/ (Show IPA), ("Toni") 1935–2009, Austrian skier.
- sailor — a person whose occupation is sailing or navigation; mariner.
- salami — a kind of sausage, originally Italian, often flavored with garlic.
- salian — of, relating to, or designating a Frankish people who lived in the region of the Rhine near the North Sea.
- salify — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salina — a city in central Kansas.
- saline — of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike: a saline solution.
- salish — a member of any of various North American Indian peoples speaking a Salishan language.
- saliva — a viscid, watery fluid, secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands, that functions in the tasting, chewing, and swallowing of food, moistens the mouth, and starts the digestion of starches.
- salmis — salmi.
- salt i — either of two preliminary five-year agreements between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for the control of certain nuclear weapons, the first concluded in 1972 (SALT I) and the second drafted in 1979 (SALT II) but not ratified.
- saltie — an ocean-going sailor.
- salugi — a gamelike prank in which a youth grabs something belonging to another and throws it to a third, preventing the owner from retrieving it as it is tossed back and forth.
- saluki — (sometimes lowercase) one of a breed of black and tan, white, gold, or tricolor dogs resembling the greyhound and having fringes of long hair on the ears, legs, and thighs, raised originally in Egypt and southwestern Asia.
- salvia — any plant of the genus Salvia, comprising the sages, having opposite leaves and whorled flowers.
- sangli — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India, on the Krishna River.
- saulie — a hired professional mourner at a funeral
- scalia — Antonin [an-tuh-nin] /ˈæn tə nɪn/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1986.
- scilla — modern name of Scylla.
- serial — anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- sheila — a female given name, form of Celia.
- shilha — a Berber language, the language of the Shluh.
- shimla — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
- sialic — the assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and alumina, that comprise the continental portions of the upper layer of the earth's crust.
- sialid — any neuropterous insect of the family Sialidae, comprising the alderflies.
- sialon — a very strong, corrosion-resistant ceramic used in the chemical industry
- signal — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- silage — fodder preserved through fermentation in a silo; ensilage.
- silane — Also called silicon tetrahydride. a gas with an unpleasant odor, SiH 4 , soluble in water: used as a doping agent for semiconductors in the production of solid-state devices.
- silica — the dioxide form of silicon, SiO 2 , occurring especially as quartz sand, flint, and agate: used usually in the form of its prepared white powder chiefly in the manufacture of glass, water glass, ceramics, and abrasives.
- siloam — a spring and pool near Jerusalem. John 9:7.
- silvan — of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods.
- silvia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “forest.”.
- simial — relating to, or characteristic of, apes
- simula — (language) SIMUlation LAnguage. See Lund Simula, SIMULA 67, SIMULA I. See also Association for SIMULA Users, C++SIM, FLEX, MODSIM, SIMSCRIPT. A simula-to-C compiler project is underway. E-mail: Harald Thingelstad <[email protected]>.
- siplan — SIte PLANning computer language. Interactive language for space planning. "Formal Languages for Site Planning", C.I. Yessios in Spatial Synthesis for Computer-Aided Design, C. Eastman ed, Applied Science Publ 1976.
- situla — a deep urn, vase, or bucket-shaped vessel, especially one made in the ancient world.
- slavic — a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian), West Slavic (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian), and South Slavic (Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene).