7-letter words containing l, e, s, i
- slinter — a dodge, trick, or stratagem
- slipped — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- slipper — any light, low-cut shoe into which the foot may be easily slipped, for casual wear in the home, for dancing, etc. Compare bedroom slipper, house slipper.
- slither — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- smittle — (of a disease) infectious
- snidely — derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner: snide remarks about his boss.
- sniffle — to sniff repeatedly, as from a head cold or in repressing tears: She sniffled woefully.
- sniggle — to fish for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their lurking places.
- sniglet — any word coined for something that has no specific name.
- snively — characterized by or given to sniveling.
- soilage — an act or instance of soiling.
- soilure — a stain.
- soldier — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- solider — having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
- soliped — solidungulate.
- sondeli — an Indian musk shrew
- spaniel — one of any of several breeds of small or medium-sized dogs, usually having a long, silky coat and long, drooping ears.
- special — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- speldin — a fish that has been split and dried
- spicule — a small or minute, slender, sharp-pointed body or part; a small, needlelike crystal, process, or the like.
- spiegel — a lustrous, crystalline pig iron containing a large amount of manganese, sometimes 15 percent or more, used in making steel.
- spieler — a barker, as at a circus sideshow.
- spignel — a European umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum, of mountain regions, having white flowers and finely divided aromatic leaves
- spilite — a type of igneous rock
- spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- spinule — a small spine.
- spittle — saliva; spit.
- splenic — of, pertaining to, connected with, or affecting the spleen: splenic nerves.
- splicer — a device used to hold two sections of motion-picture film, recording tape, etc., in proper alignment while they are being spliced together.
- splined — a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- spoiled — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- spoiler — a person or thing that spoils.
- spulyie — to plunder
- stabile — fixed in position; stable.
- staniel — a kestrel
- steelie — steelhead.
- stellio — a lizard
- stencil — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- sterile — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- stickle — to argue or haggle insistently, especially on trivial matters.
- stiegel — Henry William, 1729–85, German iron and glass manufacturer in America.
- stifled — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
- stifler — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
- stilled — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- stiller — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- stilted — stiffly dignified or formal, as speech or literary style; pompous.
- stilter — a trained individual who can walk on stilts
- stipple — to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.
- stipule — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stoolie — a pigeon used as a decoy.