7-letter words containing l, a, s, t
- salavat — a city in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic, in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, S of Ufa.
- salient — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- saligot — the water chestnut, Trapa natans
- sallust — (Caius Sallustius Crispus) 86–34 b.c, Roman historian.
- salt ii — 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.
- saltant — dancing; leaping; jumping.
- saltate — to move by means of saltation
- saltato — (of a performance with a stringed instrument) playing each note staccato by bouncing the bow on the strings.
- saltbox — a box in which salt is kept.
- saltcat — a salty matter for attracting pigeons
- saltern — a saltworks.
- saltier — tasting of or containing salt; saline.
- saltily — in a salty manner
- saltine — a crisp, salted cracker.
- salting — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- saltire — an ordinary in the form of a cross with arms running diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base and from the sinister chief to the dexter base; St. Andrew's cross.
- saltish — somewhat salty.
- saltpan — an undrained natural depression, as a crater or tectonic basin, in which the evaporation of water leaves a deposit of salt.
- salvete — welcome!
- sandlot — a vacant lot used by youngsters for games or sports.
- santali — the Munda language spoken by the Santal.
- satchel — Leroy Robert ("Satchel") 1906–82, U.S. baseball player.
- satilla — a river in SE Georgia, flowing E to the Atlantic Ocean. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- satyral — a mythical beast in heraldry thought to have a lion's body, an antelope's tail and horns, and an old man's face
- scantle — a small or scant amount
- scantly — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scarlet — a bright-red color inclining toward orange.
- scytale — a tool used to transmit secret messages by way of wrapping a strip of leather around a cylinder and writing on it. The leather is then unwound and must be wrapped around a cylinder of the same size to read the message. Used by the Ancient Greeks, particularly the Spartans
- sealant — a substance used for sealing, as sealing wax or adhesives.
- sealift — a system for transporting persons or cargo by ship, especially in an emergency.
- seattle — (Seatlh) c1790–1866, Suquamish leader: Seattle, Washington, named after him.
- segetal — (of weeds) growing amongst crops
- selecta — a disc jockey
- setubal — Bay of, an inlet of the Atlantic, in W Portugal. 20 miles (32 km) long; 35 miles (56 km) wide.
- shallot — a plant, Allium cepa aggregatum (or A. ascalonicum), related to the onion, having a divided bulb used for flavoring in cookery.
- shmaltz — schmaltz.
- sialkot — a city in NE Pakistan: military station.
- sitella — any of various small generally black-and-white birds of the genus Neositta, having a straight sharp beak and strong claws used to run up trees in search of insects: family Sittidae (nuthatches)
- skatole — a white, crystalline, watersoluble solid, C 9 H 9 N, having a strong, fecal odor: used chiefly as a fixative in the manufacture of perfume.
- slainte — cheers!
- slanter — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slather — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slating — a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- slatkin — Leonard. born 1944, US conductor; musical director of the St Louis Symphony Orchestra (1979–96) and of the National Symphony Orchestra (1996–2008)
- slatted — a slap; a sharp blow.
- slatter — to be slovenly in dress
- slavist — a specialist in the study of Slavic languages, cultures, etc.
- slayton — Donald Kent ("Deke") 1924–1993, U.S. astronaut.
- sliotar — the ball used in hurling
- smartly — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.