8-letter words containing l, e, a, s
- shiralee — swag2 (def 2).
- shoelace — a string or lace for fastening a shoe.
- showable — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- shrapnel — Military. a hollow projectile containing bullets or the like and a bursting charge, designed to explode before reaching the target, and to set free a shower of missiles. such projectiles collectively.
- shrieval — of, belonging to, or relating to a sheriff.
- sibilate — to hiss.
- sidalcea — any plant of the mostly perennial N American genus Sidalcea, related to and resembling mallow, esp S. malvaeflora, grown for its spikes of lilac, pink, or red flowers: family Malvaceae
- sideload — to transfer software, data, etc., from one local system or device to another, typically from one's computer to a mobile device.
- sidereal — determined by or from the stars: sidereal time.
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewall — the part of a pneumatic tire between the edge of the tread and the rim of the wheel.
- signable — suitable for signing, as in being satisfactory, appropriate, or complete: a signable legislative bill.
- signaled — 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.
- silesian — a region in central Europe along both banks of the upper Oder River, mainly in SW Poland and the N Czech Republic: formerly divided between Germany (which had the largest portion), Poland, and Czechoslovakia; by provision of the Potsdam agreement 1945, the greater part of German Silesia came under Polish administration; rich deposits of coal, iron, and other minerals.
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- siloxane — any of the class of compounds containing the structural unit R 2 SiO, where R is an organic group or hydrogen.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- singable — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- sinkable — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
- sizeable — of considerable size; fairly large: He inherited a sizable fortune.
- sizeably — sizable.
- skeletal — of, relating to, or like a skeleton.
- skewbald — (especially of horses) having patches of brown and white.
- skiplane — an airplane equipped with skis to enable it to land on and take off from snow.
- slabbery — slobbery.
- slablike — resembling a slab
- slaister — a sloppy mess
- slalomer — a person who slaloms
- slaphead — a bald person
- slathers — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slattern — a slovenly, untidy woman or girl.
- slattery — slovenly
- slayable — that may be slain for good reason
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- sleazoid — a sleazy person
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- slipcase — a box for a book or set of books, open on one side so that the spine is visible.
- slippage — an act or instance of slipping.
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- slovenia — a republic in SE Europe: formerly part of Yugoslavia. 7819 sq. mi. (20,250 sq. km). Capital: Ljubljana.
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- smallage — the celery, Apium graveolens, especially in its wild state.
- smallens — Alexander, 1889–1972, U.S. orchestra conductor, born in Russia.
- smallest — of limited size; of comparatively restricted dimensions; not big; little: a small box.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- smaltite — a mineral, originally thought to have been a diarsenide of cobalt, CoAs 2 , but which is actually a skutterudite rich in cobalt.
- smokable — suitable for being smoked.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.