6-letter words containing l, s, a
- septal — of or relating to a septum.
- serial — anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- serval — a long-limbed, nocturnal African cat, Felis serval, about the size of a bobcat, having a tawny coat spotted with black: now rare in many former habitats.
- setula — a short, blunt seta.
- sewall — Samuel, 1652–1730, American jurist, born in England.
- sexual — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
- shaley — a rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay or argillaceous material.
- shalom — Hebrew word for peace
- shamal — a hot northwesterly wind
- sheila — a female given name, form of Celia.
- shelta — a private language, based in part on Irish, used among Travelers in the British Isles.
- shilha — a Berber language, the language of the Shluh.
- shimla — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
- shoaly — full of shoals or shallows.
- sialic — the assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and alumina, that comprise the continental portions of the upper layer of the earth's crust.
- sialid — any neuropterous insect of the family Sialidae, comprising the alderflies.
- sialon — a very strong, corrosion-resistant ceramic used in the chemical industry
- signal — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- silage — fodder preserved through fermentation in a silo; ensilage.
- silane — Also called silicon tetrahydride. a gas with an unpleasant odor, SiH 4 , soluble in water: used as a doping agent for semiconductors in the production of solid-state devices.
- silica — the dioxide form of silicon, SiO 2 , occurring especially as quartz sand, flint, and agate: used usually in the form of its prepared white powder chiefly in the manufacture of glass, water glass, ceramics, and abrasives.
- siloam — a spring and pool near Jerusalem. John 9:7.
- silvan — of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods.
- silvia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “forest.”.
- simial — relating to, or characteristic of, apes
- simula — (language) SIMUlation LAnguage. See Lund Simula, SIMULA 67, SIMULA I. See also Association for SIMULA Users, C++SIM, FLEX, MODSIM, SIMSCRIPT. A simula-to-C compiler project is underway. E-mail: Harald Thingelstad <[email protected]>.
- 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.
- situla — a deep urn, vase, or bucket-shaped vessel, especially one made in the ancient world.
- skylab — a U.S. earth-orbiting space station that was periodically staffed by three separate crews of astronauts and remained in orbit 1973–79.
- slabby — covered by slabs
- slacks — the fine screenings of coal.
- slaggy — of, relating to, or like slag.
- slaker — a person or thing that slakes.
- slalom — Skiing. a downhill race over a winding and zigzag course marked by poles or gates. Compare giant slalom.
- slangy — of, of the nature of, or containing slang: a slangy expression.
- slanty — at an oblique or sloping angle
- slatch — a relatively smooth interval between heavy seas.
- slated — a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- slater — Samuel, 1768–1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England.
- slatey — slightly mad; crazy
- slaver — saliva coming from the mouth.
- slavey — a female servant, especially a maid of all work in a boardinghouse.
- slavic — a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian), West Slavic (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian), and South Slavic (Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene).
- slavo- — Slav
- slayed — to draw (warp ends) through the heddle eyes of the harness or through the dents of the reed in accordance with a given plan for weaving a fabric.
- slayer — to kill by violence.
- sleave — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- sleaze — a contemptible or vulgar person.
- sleazo — a sleazy person
- sleazy — contemptibly low, mean, or disreputable: sleazy politics.