7-letter words containing l, i, o, n, s
- nilsson — (Märta) Birgit [mahr-tah bir-git;; English mahr-tuh bur-git] /ˈmɑr tɑ ˈbɪr gɪt;; English ˈmɑr tə ˈbɜr gɪt/ (Show IPA), 1918–2005, Swedish soprano.
- noisily — making much noise: noisy children.
- nonslip — Designed to prevent slipping.
- norilsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Asia, near the mouth of the Yenisei River.
- nostril — either of the two external openings of the nose.
- novalis — (pen name of Friedrich von Hardenberg) 1772–1801, German poet.
- oilcans — Plural form of oilcan.
- oilsand — Alternative spelling of oil sand.
- oilskin — a cotton fabric made waterproof by treatment with oil and used for rain gear and fishermen's clothing.
- olefins — Plural form of olefin.
- olingos — Plural form of olingo.
- onliest — being the single one or the relatively few of the kind: This is the only pencil I can find.
- osmanli — an Ottoman.
- plosion — the forced release of the occlusive phase of a plosive, whether voiceless or voiced, either audible due to frication or inaudible due to a contiguous following consonant. Also called explosion. Compare implosion (def 2).
- pulsion — the act of driving forward
- rollins — Theodore Walter ("Sonny") born 1930, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.
- saintlo — a department in NW France. 2476 sq. mi. (6413 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Lô.
- scolion — a song sung at banquets in ancient Greece.
- silenos — Silenus.
- silicon — a nonmetallic element, having amorphous and crystalline forms, occurring in a combined state in minerals and rocks and constituting more than one fourth of the earth's crust: used in steelmaking, alloys, etc. Symbol: Si; atomic weight: 28.086; atomic number: 14; specific gravity: 2.4 at 20°C.
- siloing — a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- simplon — a mountain pass in S Switzerland, in the Lepontine Alps: crossed by a carriage road constructed 1800–06 on Napoleon's orders. 6592 feet (2010 meters) high.
- sinaloa — a state in W Mexico, bordering on the Gulf of California. 22,582 sq. mi. (58,485 sq. km). Capital: Culiacán.
- sirloin — the portion of the loin of beef in front of the rump.
- slip-on — made without buttons, straps, zippers, etc., so as to be put on easily and quickly: a slip-on blouse; slip-on shoes.
- sloping — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- soiling — to feed (confined cattle, horses, etc.) freshly cut green fodder for roughage.
- soliman — Suleiman I.
- soliton — an isolated particle-like wave that is a solution of certain equations for propagation, occurring when two solitary waves do not change their form after collision and subsequently travelling for considerable distances
- somnial — relating to dreams
- sondeli — an Indian musk shrew
- stalino — a former name of Donetsk.
- stilton — either of two rich cheeses made from whole milk, blue-veined (blue Stilton) or white (white Stilton), both very strong in flavour
- stonily — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- sun oil — an oil put on your skin to protect it from the sun
- tonsils — a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- tylosin — a broad spectrum antibiotic, used in livestock to fight infections or as an anti-inflammatory
- unsolid — having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
- upsilon — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
- winslow — Edward, 1595–1655, English colonist and author in America: governor of the Plymouth colony 1633, 1639, 1644.