6-letter words containing s, a, l
- qualms — an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
- rascal — a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
- rashly — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
- rassle — wrestle
- reales — true; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent: the real reason for an act.
- resail — to sail back or again.
- resale — the act of selling a second time.
- reseal — close or make airtight again
- rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- roseal — rosy or roselike
- rosula — a rosette
- s-lang — (language) A small but highly functional embedded interpreter. S-Lang was a stack-based postfix language resembling Forth and BC/DC with limited support for infix notation. Now it has a C-like infix syntax. Arrays, stings, integers, floating-point and autoloading are all suported. The editor JED embeds S-lang. S-Lang is available under the GNU Library General Public License. It runs on MS-DOS, Unix, and VMS. E-mail: John E. Davis <[email protected]>.
- s-mail — snail mail.
- sabalo — the tarpon.
- sacral — of or relating to the sacrum.
- saddle — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
- safely — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- safrol — an oily liquid obtained from sassafras
- sagely — a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- sailer — Anton [ahn-tohn] /ˈɑn toʊn/ (Show IPA), ("Toni") 1935–2009, Austrian skier.
- sailor — a person whose occupation is sailing or navigation; mariner.
- salaam — a salutation meaning “peace,” used especially in Islamic countries.
- salade — sallet.
- salado — Rí·o [ree-oh;; Spanish ree-aw] /ˈri oʊ;; Spanish ˈri ɔ/ (Show IPA) a river in N Argentina, flowing SE to the Paraná River. About 1200 miles (1930 km) long.
- salami — a kind of sausage, originally Italian, often flavored with garlic.
- salary — a fixed compensation periodically paid to a person for regular work or services.
- salian — of, relating to, or designating a Frankish people who lived in the region of the Rhine near the North Sea.
- salify — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salina — a city in central Kansas.
- saline — of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike: a saline solution.
- salish — a member of any of various North American Indian peoples speaking a Salishan language.
- saliva — a viscid, watery fluid, secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands, that functions in the tasting, chewing, and swallowing of food, moistens the mouth, and starts the digestion of starches.
- sallee — a SE Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus pauciflora, with a pale grey bark
- sallet — a light medieval helmet, usually with a vision slit or a movable visor.
- sallow — of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
- salmis — salmi.
- salmon — a marine and freshwater food fish, Salmo salar, of the family Salmonidae, having pink flesh, inhabiting waters off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America near the mouths of large rivers, which it enters to spawn.
- salome — Also, Salomé. the daughter of Herodias, who is said to have danced for Herod Antipas and so pleased him that he granted her mother's request for the head of John the Baptist. Matt. 14:6–11 (not mentioned by name here).
- saloon — a place for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks.
- saloop — a hot drink prepared originally from salep but later from sassafras, together with milk and sugar.
- salt i — either of two preliminary five-year agreements between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for the control of certain nuclear weapons, the first concluded in 1972 (SALT I) and the second drafted in 1979 (SALT II) but not ratified.
- salted — containing salt; having the taste of salt: salt water.
- salten — Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Siegmund Salzman) 1869–1945, Austrian novelist, in Switzerland after 1938.
- salter — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- saltie — an ocean-going sailor.
- saltly — in the manner of salt
- saltus — oscillation (def 5b).
- salugi — a gamelike prank in which a youth grabs something belonging to another and throws it to a third, preventing the owner from retrieving it as it is tossed back and forth.
- saluki — (sometimes lowercase) one of a breed of black and tan, white, gold, or tricolor dogs resembling the greyhound and having fringes of long hair on the ears, legs, and thighs, raised originally in Egypt and southwestern Asia.
- salute — Military. to pay respect to or honor by some formal act, as by raising the right hand to the side of the headgear, presenting arms, firing cannon, dipping colors, etc.