7-letter words containing l, e, s, i
- obelisk — a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex.
- obelism — the practice of marking or adding comments on passages in a text
- obliges — to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
- oiliest — Superlative form of oily.
- oilseed — any of several seeds, as the castor bean, sesame, or cottonseed, from which an oil is expressed.
- olefins — Plural form of olefin.
- ologies — Plural form of ology.
- onliest — being the single one or the relatively few of the kind: This is the only pencil I can find.
- oolites — Plural form of oolite.
- orioles — Plural form of oriole.
- ossicle — a small bone.
- ostiole — Biology. a small opening or pore, especially in the fruiting body of a fungus.
- paisley — a soft woolen fabric woven with a pattern of colorful and minutely detailed figures.
- palsied — paralyzed; unable to move or control certain muscles.
- parlies — small Scottish biscuits
- pelasgi — the pre-Hellenic peoples who inhabited Greece and the islands and coasts of the Aegean Sea before the arrival of the Bronze Age Greeks
- pelisse — an outer garment lined or trimmed with fur.
- pensile — hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- pileous — hairy or furry.
- pilsner — a pale, light lager beer.
- pipless — (of fruit) without any pips; seedless
- pistole — a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- plenish — to fill up; stock; furnish.
- plenism — the philosophical theory that there are no vacuums in nature
- plenist — a person who adheres to the philosophical theory of plenism
- pliskie — a practical joke
- ploesti — a city in S Romania: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- plosive — (of a stop consonant or occlusive) characterized by release in a plosion; explosive.
- polices — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- polies' — Informal. polyester (def 2): a blend of poly and cotton.
- prelims — preliminary.
- puslike — a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- quilmes — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- railers — to utter bitter complaint or vehement denunciation (often followed by at or against): to rail at fate.
- realise — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- realist — a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- reflisp — (language) A small Lisp interpreter written in C++ by Bill Birch of Bull, UK. RefLisp has a built-in web server, Wiki, LISP server pages, SQL Databases, XML parser, MD5 hashing, regular expressions, reference counting and mark-sweep garbage collection. RefLisp has shallow-binding and dynamic scope with optional support for lexical scope, Common Lisp compatibility and for indefinite extent Scheme programs. RefLisp is distributed under the GPL.
- replies — to make answer in words or writing; answer; respond: to reply to a question.
- resilin — an elastic substance of cross-linked protein chains found in the cuticles of many insects, especially in the wings.
- reskill — receive training
- resplit — to split again
- reviles — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- revisal — the act of revising; revision.
- rimless — glasses: without full frames
- ripples — the repercussions of an event or situation experienced far beyond its immediate location
- risible — causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; ludicrous.
- rissole — (of foods) browned in deep fat.
- rosalie — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning rose festival.