7-letter words containing s, e, l, a
- salieri — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1750–1825, Italian composer and conductor.
- salique — Salic.
- sallied — a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
- saltate — to move by means of saltation
- saltern — a saltworks.
- saltier — tasting of or containing salt; saline.
- saltine — a crisp, salted cracker.
- saltire — an ordinary in the form of a cross with arms running diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base and from the sinister chief to the dexter base; St. Andrew's cross.
- salvage — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- salvete — welcome!
- salween — a river in SE Asia, flowing S from SW China through E Burma (Myanmar) to the Bay of Bengal. 1750 miles (2815 km) long.
- sampler — a person who samples.
- sanicle — any plant belonging to the genus Sanicula, of the parsley family, as S. marilandica, of America, used in medicine.
- sapless — without sap; withered; dry: sapless plants.
- satchel — Leroy Robert ("Satchel") 1906–82, U.S. baseball player.
- savable — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- saveloy — a highly seasoned, dried sausage.
- sayable — of the sort that can be said or spoken; utterable: He felt a great deal that was not sayable.
- scabble — to shape or dress (stone) roughly.
- scalade — escalade.
- scalage — an assessed percentage deduction, as in weight or price, granted in dealings with goods that are likely to shrink, leak, or otherwise vary in the amount or weight originally stated.
- scalare — any of three deep-bodied, cichlid fishes, Pterophyllum scalare, P. altum, and P. eimekei, inhabiting northern South American rivers, often kept in aquariums.
- scalene — Geometry. (of a cone or the like) having the axis inclined to the base. (of a triangle) having three unequal sides.
- scaleup — an increase in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaleup of an engineering design; a scaleup program of energy conservation.
- scalped — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scalpel — a small, light, usually straight knife used in surgical and anatomical operations and dissections.
- scalper — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scamble — a long bench used in a farm kitchen
- scantle — a small or scant amount
- scapple — to shape (stone, timber, etc) into a plane in a rough or unfinished manner
- scarlet — a bright-red color inclining toward orange.
- scleral — sclerotic (def 1).
- scytale — a tool used to transmit secret messages by way of wrapping a strip of leather around a cylinder and writing on it. The leather is then unwound and must be wrapped around a cylinder of the same size to read the message. Used by the Ancient Greeks, particularly the Spartans
- sea eel — the conger eel; Anguilla anguilla
- seafolk — the people who sail the sea
- seafowl — seabird.
- seagull — a gull, especially any of the marine species.
- seakale — European coastal plant
- seal in — If something seals in a smell or liquid, it prevents it from getting out of a food.
- seal up — make water- or air-tight
- sealant — a substance used for sealing, as sealing wax or adhesives.
- sealery — a place where seals are caught.
- sealift — a system for transporting persons or cargo by ship, especially in an emergency.
- sealine — a company running regular sailings
- sealing — a substance that seals; sealant
- sealwax — a sealing wax made from a preparation of shellac and turpentine that is soft and fluid when heated, but which hardens upon cooling
- seattle — (Seatlh) c1790–1866, Suquamish leader: Seattle, Washington, named after him.
- seawall — groyne: wave barrier
- seconal — secobarbital
- secular — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.