9-letter words containing l, u, i, s
- salisbury — Harrison, 1908–93, U.S. journalist and writer.
- salubrity — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- sausalito — a town in W California on San Fransisco Bay: resort; formerly artist's colony.
- scamillus — a slight bevel at an arris of a stone, as in the necking of a Greek Doric column.
- scrubbily — in a scrubby or messy manner
- scruffily — in an unkempt or shabby fashion
- scuffling — to struggle or fight in a rough, confused manner.
- scungille — the meat of a mollusc or conch, eaten as a delicacy
- scungilli — the edible part of a conch
- scuttling — to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry.
- secluding — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- seclusion — an act of secluding: the seclusion of unruly students.
- seclusive — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
- seducible — to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
- selenious — containing tetravalent or bivalent selenium.
- semifluid — imperfectly fluid; having both fluid and solid characteristics; semiliquid.
- semilunar — shaped like a half-moon; crescent.
- semiplume — a semiplume feather
- semirural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- semisolus — an advertisement that appears on the same page as another advertisement but not adjacent to it
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- sensillum — Zoology. a simple sense organ usually consisting of one or a few cells at the peripheral end of a sensory nerve fiber.
- sequelize — to make a sequel to: to sequelize a hit movie.
- seriously — in a serious manner: He shook his head seriously.
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- sexualism — any discrimination based upon sexual preference
- 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.
- sexualize — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- shuttling — a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
- side curl — earlock.
- siffleuse — a female professional whistler
- siliceous — containing, consisting of, or resembling silica.
- silicious — containing, consisting of, or resembling silica.
- siliquose — bearing siliques.
- silverius — Saint, died a.d. 537, pope 536–37.
- simula 67 — (language) A version of SIMULA I? Simula a.s., Postboks 4403 - Torshov, N-0402 Oslo 4, Norway, versions for almost every computer. E-mail: Henry Islo <[email protected]>.
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulated — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- singulary — (of an operator) monadic
- singultus — a hiccup.
- sinuslike — like the sinus
- siphuncle — (in a nautilus) the connecting tube that passes from the end of the body through all of the septa to the innermost chamber.