7-letter words containing s, e, l, a
- peltast — (in ancient Greece) a lightly armed foot soldier
- persalt — (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
- perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- phaseal — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- plasher — a person who forms hedges by means of interweaving the branches or vines
- plashet — a small, marshy pond
- plassey — a village in NE India, about 80 miles (128 km) north of Kolkata: Clive's victory over a Bengal army here (1757) led to the establishment of British power in India.
- plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- pleased — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- pleaser — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- pleases — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- posable — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- presale — a sale held in advance of an advertised sale, as for select customers.
- psalter — the Biblical book of Psalms.
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- pylades — a son of Strophius who befriended Orestes, accompanied him in his wanderings, and eventually married Electra, sister of Orestes.
- quarles — Francis, 1592–1644, English poet.
- rabbles — Plural form of rabble.
- raddles — Plural form of raddle.
- raffles — rubbish.
- railers — to utter bitter complaint or vehement denunciation (often followed by at or against): to rail at fate.
- rankles — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- raschel — a type of loosely knitted fabric
- rayless — lacking rays or raylike parts.
- realise — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- realist — a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- reclasp — to clasp (something) again or (of two things) to clasp together again
- reclass — a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
- recusal — the disqualification of a judge for a particular lawsuit or proceeding, especially due to some possible conflict of interest or prejudice.
- refusal — an act or instance of refusing.
- relapse — to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
- release — to lease again.
- reposal — the act of reposing.
- rescale — to revise the scale of, especially to make smaller or more modest: to rescale a budget.
- reslate — to slate (a roof etc) again
- revisal — the act of revising; revision.
- rosalie — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning rose festival.
- rosella — any of several large, colorful parakeets of the genus Platycercus, of Australia.
- roseola — a kind of rose-colored rash.
- sabella — a marine worm of the family Sabelliae
- saccule — Anatomy. the smaller of two sacs in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear. Compare utricle (def 3).
- saclike — a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- saddler — a person who makes, repairs, or sells saddlery.
- safrole — a colorless or faintly yellow liquid, C 1 0 H 1 0 O 2 , obtained from sassafras oil or the like: used chiefly in perfumery, for flavoring, and in the manufacture of soaps.
- salable — subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold: The books were sent back by the store in salable condition.
- salerno — a seaport in SW Italy: taken by U.S. forces September 1943.
- salfern — a European branching plant of the borage family
- salient — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.