7-letter words containing l, e, s, i
- saclike — a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- salient — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- salieri — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1750–1825, Italian composer and conductor.
- salique — Salic.
- sallied — a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
- saltier — tasting of or containing salt; saline.
- saltine — a crisp, salted cracker.
- 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.
- sanicle — any plant belonging to the genus Sanicula, of the parsley family, as S. marilandica, of America, used in medicine.
- schiele — Egon [ey-gawn] /ˈeɪ gɔn/ (Show IPA), 1890–1918, Austrian expressionist painter.
- scissel — the remains of a strip from which coin blanks have been cut; clippings.
- seal in — If something seals in a smell or liquid, it prevents it from getting out of a food.
- sealift — a system for transporting persons or cargo by ship, especially in an emergency.
- sealine — a company running regular sailings
- sealing — a substance that seals; sealant
- sectile — capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.
- sedalia — a city in central Missouri.
- sedilia — one of the seats (usually three) on the south side of the chancel, often recessed, for the use of the officiating clergy.
- seedlip — a basket holding seeds that are to be sown
- seeling — Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- selenic — of or containing selenium, especially in the hexavalent state.
- selfing — a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality: one's own self.
- selfish — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
- selfism — an emphasis on self; a selfish concentration on one's own interests or a philosophy based on them
- selfist — a selfish person
- selkirk — Alexander (originally Alexander Selcraig) 1676–1721, Scottish sailor marooned on a Pacific island: supposed prototype of Robinson Crusoe.
- sell in — to sell (new products) to a retail outlet to be sold to the public
- selling — of or relating to a sale or sales: the selling price of oranges.
- semilog — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- seminal — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
- sensile — capable of feeling; sensitive; capable of perceiving; sentient
- serkali — (in Africa) the government
- servile — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- sessile — Botany. attached by the base, or without any distinct projecting support, as a leaf issuing directly from the stem.
- setline — any of various types of fishing line that consist of a long line suspended across a stream, between buoys, etc, and having shorter hooked and baited lines attached
- seville — a port in SW Spain, on the Guadalquivir River: site of the Alcazar; cathedral.
- sexfoil — a round ornament consisting of six lobes divided by cusps.
- sextile — Astronomy. noting or pertaining to the aspect or position of two heavenly bodies when 60° distant from each other.
- shawlie — a working-class woman, esp one who wears a shawl
- shebeli — Webi [wey-bi] /ˈweɪ bɪ/ (Show IPA), Webi Shebeli.
- sheitel — a wig worn by certain Orthodox Jewish married women in keeping with an old rabbinical precept that forbids a woman to leave her hair uncovered in the sight of a man other than her husband.
- sheltie — Shetland pony.
- shibeli — river in E Africa, flowing from SE Ethiopia through Somalia into a swamp near the Juba River: c. 1,200 mi (1,931 km)
- shields — 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.
- shilled — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- shingle — small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
- shipley — Dame Jenny, full name Jennifer (Mary) Shipley. born 1952, New Zealand National Party politician; prime minister (1997–1999)
- shirley — James, 1596–1666, English dramatist.
- shively — a city in N Kentucky, near Louisville.
- shizzle — a form of slang popularized by US rap musicians in which the trailing syllables of certain words are replaced by the suffix -izzle