9-letter words containing l, i, s, e, t
- schnitzel — a cutlet, especially of veal.
- sciential — having knowledge.
- scleritis — inflammation of the sclera.
- sclerotic — Also, scleral. Anatomy. of or relating to the sclera.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- scolecite — a monoclinic white zeolite mineral, a hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, CaAl 2 Si 3 O 1 0 ⋅, 3H 2 O, occurring in masses and in needle-shaped crystals.
- sea blite — any of several halophytic herbs of the genus Suaeda, having fleshy leaves.
- sectarial — distinguishing or differentiating a sect
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- selecting — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- selective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- selenitic — of or relating to selenite
- self-pity — pity for oneself, especially a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties, hardships, etc.: We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can.
- semimetal — an element with properties both of a metal and of a non-metal; a metalloid
- sepiolite — meerschaum (def 1).
- sept-iles — French name of Seven Isles.
- septimole — a group of seven musical notes to be played in the same space of time as either four or six
- serialist — a writer of serials
- seriality — a serial layout or arrangement; the quality of taking place in series
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- settle in — make oneself at home
- settlings — the act of a person or thing that settles.
- sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
- sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- sheetlike — resembling a sheet
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- shirtless — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- shit-hole — a very bad place; a disgusting place
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- sidelight — an item of incidental information.
- sidetable — a small table at the side of a room
- sighthole — a hole, as on a quadrant, through which to see or to sight.
- sightless — unable to see; blind.
- sightline — any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater, stadium, etc.: Some of the sightlines are blocked by columns.
- sigillate — (of a ceramic object) having stamped decorations.
- silicates — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- silk tree — a tree, Albizia julibrissin, of the legume family, native to Asia, having pinnate leaves and plumelike pink flowers and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- siltstone — a very fine-grained sandstone, mainly consolidated silt.
- silvertip — grizzly bear.
- silvester — Sylvester II.
- simmental — one of a large breed of cattle, yellowish-brown to red and white, originally of Switzerland, used for milk and beef and as a draft animal.