8-letter words containing n, a, i, l
- scalpins — small stones used to improve drainage
- scantily — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scenical — of or relating to natural scenery.
- sea lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sea-lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sealskin — the skin of a seal.
- seasnail — any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
- selenian — of the moon; lunar
- semolina — a granular, milled product of durum wheat, consisting almost entirely of endosperm particles, used chiefly in the making of pasta.
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shinleaf — a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
- shoaling — any large number of persons or things.
- sialidan — relating to alderflies
- sibilant — hissing.
- sicilian — an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean. 9924 sq. mi. (25,705 sq. km). Capital: Palermo.
- signable — suitable for signing, as in being satisfactory, appropriate, or complete: a signable legislative bill.
- signaled — 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.
- signally — conspicuously; notably.
- silesian — a region in central Europe along both banks of the upper Oder River, mainly in SW Poland and the N Czech Republic: formerly divided between Germany (which had the largest portion), Poland, and Czechoslovakia; by provision of the Potsdam agreement 1945, the greater part of German Silesia came under Polish administration; rich deposits of coal, iron, and other minerals.
- silliman — Benjamin, 1779–1864, U.S. scientist and educator.
- siloxane — any of the class of compounds containing the structural unit R 2 SiO, where R is an organic group or hydrogen.
- silurian — of or relating to the Silures or their country.
- silvanus — the god of forests and uncultivated land, later worshiped under three aspects, as the protector of the house, of the herds, and of the boundaries of the farm.
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- sinalbin — a white, crystalline, water-soluble glucoside, C 3 0 H 4 2 N 2 O 1 5 S 2 , found in the seeds of the white mustard.
- sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- singable — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- sinkable — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
- skiplane — an airplane equipped with skis to enable it to land on and take off from snow.
- slacking — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slagging — Also called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore.
- slamming — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- slanging — very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.
- slangish — rather slangy
- slant-in — slant (def 13b).
- slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slashing — a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- slatting — a slap; a sharp blow.
- slavonia — a historic region in N Croatia.
- slavonic — Slavonian.
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- slovenia — a republic in SE Europe: formerly part of Yugoslavia. 7819 sq. mi. (20,250 sq. km). Capital: Ljubljana.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- snarkily — in an irritable or snarky manner
- sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- solanine — a poisonous alkaloid found in various solanaceous plants, including potatoes which have gone green through exposure to light
- solation — to change from a gel to a sol.
- solimena — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.