8-letter words containing l, a, s
- salesman — a man who sells goods, services, etc.
- saleyard — an area with pens for holding animals before auction
- salience — the state or condition of being salient.
- saliency — salience.
- salified — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salinger — J(erome) D(avid) 1971–2010, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- salinity — of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike: a saline solution.
- salinize — to treat with salt or render saline.
- salishan — a family of American Indian languages including Coeur d'Alêne, Kalispel, and other languages of British Columbia and the northwestern U.S.
- salivary — 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.
- salivate — to produce saliva.
- salmonet — a young salmon
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- salonika — Also, Salonica [suh-lon-i-kuh, sal-uh-nee-kuh] /səˈlɒn ɪ kə, ˌsæl əˈni kə/ (Show IPA), Saloniki [Greek sah-law-nee-kee] /Greek ˌsɑ lɔˈni ki/ (Show IPA). Official name Thessalonike. Ancient Therma. a seaport in south-central Macedonia, in NE Greece, on the Gulf of Salonika.
- salopian — a county in W England. 1348 sq. mi. (3490 sq. km).
- salpicon — a mixture of chopped fish, meat, or vegetables in a sauce, used as fillings for croquettes, pastries, etc
- salsilla — a tropical flowering vine found in the Americas
- salt cod — salted and dried cod that is desalted by soaking before use.
- salt hay — hay made up of salt grass, often used as fodder or as a mulch.
- salt out — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- salt pan — an undrained natural depression, as a crater or tectonic basin, in which the evaporation of water leaves a deposit of salt.
- salt pit — a pit where salt is obtained.
- salt tax — any of various taxes imposed on salt, such as the French gabelle (abolished 1790) or that in India (abolished 1946)
- salt-box — a box in which salt is kept.
- saltando — (of a performance with a stringed instrument) playing each note staccato by bouncing the bow on the strings.
- saltbush — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.
- salteaux — a member of a Native Canadian people of Manitoba
- saltfish — salted cod
- saltillo — a state in N Mexico. 58,067 sq. mi. (150,395 sq. km). Capital: Saltillo.
- saltless — lacking salt.
- saltness — the state or quality of being salt or salty.
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- saltwort — any of various plants of sea beaches, salt marshes, and alkaline regions, especially belonging to the genus Salsola, of the amaranth family, as S. kali, a bushy plant having prickly leaves, or belonging to the genus Salicornia.
- salutary — favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
- salvable — fit for or capable of being saved or salvaged.
- salvador — a coastal state of E Brazil. 216,130 sq. mi. (559,700 sq. km). Capital: Salvador.
- salvagee — a rope on sailing ship
- salvages — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- salvific — of or relating to redemptive power.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- sam hill — hell (used especially in WH-questions as a mild oath expressing exasperation and usually preceded by in or the): Who in Sam Hill are you?
- samplery — the making of samplers
- sampling — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- san blas — Gulf of, a gulf of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama.
- sand eel — sand lance.
- sand fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- sand-fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- sand-lot — a vacant lot used by youngsters for games or sports.
- sandable — the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- sandaled — a shoe consisting of a sole of leather or other material fastened to the foot by thongs or straps.