5-letter words containing i, s, l
- stilb — a unit of luminance, equal to one candle per square centimeter.
- stile — any of various upright members framing panels or the like, as in a system of paneling, a paneled door, window sash, or chest of drawers. Compare rail1 (def 8).
- still — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- stilt — one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- styli — a plural of stylus.
- sulci — a furrow or groove.
- swill — liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
- swirl — to move around or along with a whirling motion; whirl; eddy.
- sybil — a female given name.
- sylis — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Guinea, equal to 100 cauris: replaced the franc in 1972.
- tails — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- virls — ferrule (def 1).
- vlisp — (language) 1. A Lisp dialect developed by Patrick Greussay <[email protected]> in about 1973 with a fast interpreter and a portable virtual machine. Vlisp introduced the "chronology", a dynamic environment for implementing interrupts. It led to Le_Lisp. See also ObjVlisp. 2. Vincennes LISP.
- wails — Plural form of wail.
- walis — Plural form of wali.
- wilds — Plural form of wild.
- wiles — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
- wills — a male given name, form of William.
- wilts — to become limp and drooping, as a fading flower; wither.
- wisla — Vistula
- wisly — (rare, dialectal, or, obsolete) certainly; surely.
- ylisp — A variant of Xlisp from Hewlett-Packard for the HP-95LX palmtop.
- zills — Plural form of zill.