6-letter words containing l, p, s
- sepals — one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- septal — of or relating to a septum.
- shlepp — to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
- shlump — to loaf or idle.
- simple — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simply — in a simple manner; clearly and easily.
- siplan — SIte PLANning computer language. Interactive language for space planning. "Formal Languages for Site Planning", C.I. Yessios in Spatial Synthesis for Computer-Aided Design, C. Eastman ed, Applied Science Publ 1976.
- sipple — to take small sips (of)
- siprol — Signal Processing Language. A DSP language.
- sleepy — ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy.
- sliped — a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- slippy — Informal. slippery.
- sloped — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- sloper — a person or thing that slopes.
- sloppy — muddy, slushy, or very wet: The field was a sloppy mess after the rain.
- slumpy — boggy or swampy
- slurpy — making a slurping noise
- souple — silk from which only a portion of the sericin has been removed.
- spauld — a shoulder
- specol — ["SPECOL - A Computer Enquiry Language for the Non-Programmer", B.T. Smith, Computer J 11:121 (1968)].
- speltz — a wheat variety
- spiles — a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- spilth — spillage (def 1).
- spinal — of, relating to, or belonging to a spine or thornlike structure, especially to the backbone.
- spinel — any of a group of minerals composed principally of oxides of magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, etc., characterized by their hardness and octahedral crystals.
- spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spital — a hospital, especially one for lazars.
- splake — the hybrid offspring of a lake trout and a brook trout.
- splash — to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter: Don't splash her dress!
- splayd — an implement combining the functions of knife, fork, and spoon
- spleen — a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
- splen- — spleno-
- splice — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- spliff — a marijuana cigarette, especially a large or very potent one.
- spline — a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- splint — a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- splits — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- splore — a frolic; revel; carousal.
- splosh — to scatter (liquid) vigorously about in blobs
- spoils — 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.
- spoilt — a simple past tense and past participle of spoil.
- sporal — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- sprawl — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- spryly — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- staple — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- stipel — a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- sulph- — containing sulphur
- sulpha — any of a group of sulphonamides that prevent the growth of bacteria
- superl — superlative
- suplex — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler grasps his opponent round the waist from behind and carries him backwards