6-letter words containing s, e, l, a
- 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.
- 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.
- salver — a tray, especially one used for serving food or beverages.
- samedl — SQL Ada Module Description Language. Used to interface Ada application programs to SQL-based DBMSs. E-mail: Marc Graham <[email protected]>. ftp://ajpo.sei.cmu.edu/public/atip/samedl/.
- samely — monotonous
- samlet — a young salmon.
- sample — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- samuel — a judge and prophet of Israel. I Sam. 1–3; 8–15.
- sanely — free from mental derangement; having a sound, healthy mind: a sane person.
- sapele — Also called aboudikro. the mahoganylike wood of any of several African trees of the genus Entandrophragma, used for making furniture.
- sapple — soap bubbles
- sardel — a precious stone
- saulie — a hired professional mourner at a funeral
- saurel — any of several elongated marine fishes of the genus Trachurus, having bony plates along each side.
- scaled — noting armor having imbricated metal plates sewn to a flexible backing.
- scaler — a person or thing that scales.
- scales — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scamel — a bird mentioned in Shakespeare's The Tempest
- sclate — slate
- sclave — a slave
- sclera — a dense, white, fibrous membrane that, with the cornea, forms the external covering of the eyeball.
- sealab — any of several experimental U.S. Navy underwater habitats for aquanauts.
- sealed — an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- sealer — a person or ship engaged in hunting seals.
- searle — Ronald (William Fordham) [fawr-duh m,, fohr-] /ˈfɔr dəm,, ˈfoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1920–2011, British cartoonist and artist.
- selena — the Greek goddess of the moon. Compare Thyone.
- selvas — a tropical rain forest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.
- sendal — a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
- senlac — a hill in SE England: believed by some historians to have been the site of the Battle of Hastings, 1066.
- sepals — one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- 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.
- sheila — a female given name, form of Celia.
- shelta — a private language, based in part on Irish, used among Travelers in the British Isles.
- 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.
- slaker — a person or thing that slakes.
- 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.