5-letter words containing i, t, s
- sitka — a town in SE Alaska, on an island in the Alexander Archipelago: the capital of former Russian America.
- sito- — food
- situs — position; situation.
- sixte — the sixth of eight defensive positions.
- sixth — next after the fifth; being the ordinal number for six.
- sixty — a cardinal number, ten times six.
- skint — having no money; penniless.
- skirt — the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
- skite — a quick, oblique blow or stroke; a chopping blow.
- slipt — simple past tense of slip1 .
- sluit — (in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.
- smite — to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon: She smote him on the back with her umbrella.
- smith — Adam, 1723–90, Scottish economist.
- solti — Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- sotie — a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- spilt — a simple past tense and past participle of spill1 .
- spirt — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spite — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- spitz — Mark (Andrew) born 1950, U.S. swimmer: winner of seven gold medals in 1972 summer Olympic Games.
- split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- sprit — a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- squit — an insignificant person
- sruti — the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- staid — of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
- stain — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- stair — one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- stasi — formerly, the secret police in East Germany
- steig — William, 1907–2003, U.S. artist.
- stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
- stich — a verse or line of poetry.
- stick — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- sties — a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- stiff — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- stijl — a school of art that was founded in the Netherlands in 1917, embraced painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and the decorative arts, and was marked especially by the use of black and white with the primary colors, rectangular forms, and asymmetry.
- 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.
- stime — the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- stimy — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
- stine — R(obert) L(awrence). born 1943, US writer, noted for his numerous bestselling horror novels for older children, esp those in the Goosebumps and Fear Street series
- sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- stink — to emit a strong offensive smell.
- stint — to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
- stipa — a member of a genus of perennial grasses in the subfamily Pooideae
- stipe — Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- stipo — a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- stirk — a young bull or cow, especially one in its second year.
- stirp — a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- stive — an airborne flour dust caused by the milling or grinding process