6-letter words containing i, l, a
- smilax — any plant belonging to the genus Smilax, of the lily family, growing in tropical and temperate zones, consisting mostly of vines having woody stems.
- snaily — resembling a snail
- social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- somali — a member of a Hamitic population showing an admixture of Arab, black, and other ancestry, and dwelling in Somalia and adjacent regions.
- spinal — of, relating to, or belonging to a spine or thornlike structure, especially to the backbone.
- spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spital — a hospital, especially one for lazars.
- squail — to throw sticks (at) or hit with sticks
- stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- stelai — an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- sylvia — a female given name.
- tabuli — tabbouleh
- tahsil — an administrative division of a zila in certain states in India
- taigle — to entangle, impede, or delay
- tailed — coming from behind: a tail breeze.
- tailer — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- taille — French History. a tax that was levied by a king or seigneur on his subjects or on lands held under him and that became solely a royal tax in the 15th century from which the lords and later the clergy were exempt.
- tailor — a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.
- talien — Wade-Giles. Dalian.
- talion — lex talionis.
- talkie — talking picture.
- tallis — Thomas, c1505–85, English organist and composer, especially of church music.
- tallit — a shawllike garment of wool, silk, or the like, with fringes, or zizith, at the four corners, worn around the shoulders by Orthodox and Conservative (sometimes also Reform) Jews, as during the morning service.
- talwin — pentazocine
- taqlid — the acceptance of authority in religious matters.
- taxila — an archaeological site near Rawalpindi, Pakistan: ruins of three successive cities on the same site, dating from about the 7th century b.c. to about the 7th century a.d.; Buddhist center.
- telial — of a telium
- thalia — the Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry.
- thalli — a simple vegetative body undifferentiated into true leaves, stem, and root, ranging from an aggregation of filaments to a complex plantlike form.
- thulia — a dense, greenish-white powder, TmO 3 , that on gentle heating exhibits a reddish incandescence: used in the manufacture of thulium metal.
- timbal — a kettledrum.
- tincal — a former name for crude native borax.
- tindal — William, c1492–1536, English religious reformer, translator of the Bible into English, and martyr.
- tolima — a volcano in W Colombia, in the Andes. 18,438 feet (5620 meters).
- tomial — of or relating to a tomium
- trials — systematic testing
- tribal — of, relating to, or characteristic of a tribe: tribal customs.
- trinal — threefold; triple; trine.
- tuinal — a combination of equal parts of secobarbital sodium and amobarbital sodium, used as a quick and relatively long-acting sedative or hypnotic
- tuladi — lake trout.
- ugliac — (language) An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- ulpian — (Domitius Ulpianus) died a.d. 288? Roman jurist.
- ultima — (italics) Latin. the highest degree attainable.
- umtali — former name of Mutare.
- uncial — designating, written in, or pertaining to a form of majuscule writing having a curved or rounded shape and used chiefly in Greek and Latin manuscripts from about the 3rd to the 9th century a.d.
- unital — containing, or belonging or relating to, a unit
- unlaid — not laid or placed: The table is still unlaid.
- unnail — to take out the nails from.
- uracil — Biochemistry. a pyrimidine base, C 4 H 4 N 2 O 2 , that is one of the fundamental components of RNA, in which it forms base pairs with adenine. Symbol: U.
- uralic — a family of languages that comprises Finno-Ugric and Samoyed as subfamilies. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian belong to Uralic.