6-letter words containing i, s, l, a
- 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).
- 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.