6-letter words containing l, e, s, i
- seseli — a member of the Seseli genus of umbelliferous garden plants
- sexily — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
- sheila — a female given name, form of Celia.
- shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
- sickle — an implement for cutting grain, grass, etc., consisting of a curved, hooklike blade mounted in a short handle.
- sidled — to move sideways or obliquely.
- sidley — Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, in Marie Byrd Land. 13,717 feet (4181 meters).
- siècle — century, period, or era
- siffle — to whistle
- silage — fodder preserved through fermentation in a silo; ensilage.
- silane — Also called silicon tetrahydride. a gas with an unpleasant odor, SiH 4 , soluble in water: used as a doping agent for semiconductors in the production of solid-state devices.
- silene — any plant of the large perennial genus Silene, with mostly red or pink flowers; many, esp S. or Agrostemma coeli-rosa, are grown as garden plants: family Carophyllaceae
- sileni — a forest spirit, sometimes referred to as the oldest of the satyrs and the foster father, teacher, and companion of Dionysus: often represented as a bearded old man.
- silent — making no sound; quiet; still: a silent motor.
- silken — made of silk.
- silkie — a mythical creature that looks like a seal in water but assumes human form on land.
- siller — silver.
- siloed — a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- silone — Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- silted — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- silver — consisting of, made of, or plated with silver.
- silvex — a herbicide that eradicates weeds and woody plants
- simile — a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”. Compare metaphor.
- simmel — Georg [gey-awrk] /geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1858–1918, German sociologist and philosopher.
- simnel — in England,
- simple — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- single — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- sipple — to take small sips (of)
- sisler — George Harold, 1893–1973, U.S. baseball player.
- sisley — Alfred [al-fred] /alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA), 1839–99, French painter.
- sizzle — to make a hissing sound, as in frying or burning.
- sleigh — a light vehicle on runners, usually open and generally horse-drawn, used especially for transporting persons over snow or ice.
- sliced — Sliced bread has been cut into slices before being wrapped and sold.
- slicer — a thin-bladed knife or implement used for slicing, especially food: a cheese slicer.
- slider — a person or thing that slides.
- sliest — a superlative of sly.
- slieve — a mountain.
- sliped — a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- sliven — a city in E central Bulgaria.
- sliver — a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
- sluice — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- smiled — to assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth.
- smiles — to assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth.
- smilet — a little smile
- smiley — a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression, as :‐) for a smiling face or ;‐) for a winking face. Compare emoticon.
- snivel — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- soiled — to feed (confined cattle, horses, etc.) freshly cut green fodder for roughage.
- soleri — Paolo [pou-loh] /ˈpaʊ loʊ/ (Show IPA), 1919–2013, U.S. architect, born in Italy.
- solive — a nonessential joist
- spiles — a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.