8-letter words containing s, a, i, l, n
- melanise — Alt form melanize.
- melanism — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- midlands — a city in W Texas.
- milanese — a native or inhabitant of Milan, Italy.
- milesian — a native of Miletus.
- minerals — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- minilabs — Plural form of minilab.
- misalign — To align incorrectly.
- mislearn — To learn wrongly.
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- moonsail — a small sail carried high on the mast above the skysail
- nail set — a short rod of steel used to drive a nail below or flush with a surface.
- nainsell — own self
- nasalise — Alternative spelling of nasalize.
- nasalism — the tendency to pronounce sounds nasally
- nasality — of or relating to the nose: the nasal cavity.
- nasalize — to pronounce as a nasal sound.
- nastalik — a Persian cursive script
- natalism — Pronatalism; an ideology in favour of childbearing.
- natalist — A supporter of natalism; one who is in favour of childbearing.
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- nautilus — Also called chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus. any cephalopod of the genus Nautilus, having a spiral, chambered shell with pearly septa.
- navalism — the promotion of naval interests
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- nominals — Plural form of nominal.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- oil sand — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- oilsands — Plural form of oilsand.
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- orinasal — pronounced with the voice issuing through the mouth and the nose simultaneously, as in the nasalized vowels of French.
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- panislam — all of Islam or the Muslim world
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- pin seal — leather made of the skin of young seals.
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)