9-letter words containing s, e, l, a
- awesomely — causing or inducing awe; inspiring an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear: an awesome sight.
- awfulness — The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
- axolemmas — Plural form of axolemma.
- aylesbury — a town in SE central England, administrative centre of Buckinghamshire. Pop: 69 021 (2001)
- b special — a member of a part-time largely Protestant police force formerly functioning in Northern Ireland
- bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
- backfiles — Plural form of backfile.
- backheels — Plural form of backheel.
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- backsolve — To determine the inputs that would lead to a given output in a mathematical system.
- badgeless — without a badge
- bake sale — a sale of homemade, donated baked goods, as by a church or club to raise money.
- balancers — Plural form of balancer.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- baldheads — Plural form of baldhead.
- baleboste — a capable, efficient housewife, especially a traditional Jewish one, devoted to maintaining a well-run home.
- balikesir — city in NW Asiatic Turkey: pop. 173,000
- balkanise — to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.
- balkiness — The state or quality of being balky.
- balklines — Plural form of balkline.
- ballasted — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballaster — someone who supplies ballast for a ship; someone who ballasts
- ballistae — an ancient military engine for throwing stones or other missiles.
- ballister — (obsolete) A crossbow.
- ballonets — Plural form of ballonet.
- balloters — Plural form of balloter.
- ballsiest — Superlative form of ballsy.
- balminess — mild and refreshing; soft; soothing: balmy weather.
- balusters — Plural form of baluster.
- bandshell — a type of bandstand enclosed at the back
- bannerols — Plural form of bannerol.
- barbastel — a type of insectivorous forest bat, Barbastellus communis, native to Europe and known for its hairy lips
- barbicels — Plural form of barbicel.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barnacles — nose pincers for controlling an unruly horse
- basaltine — a black or brown-green mineral (Ca, Mg, Fe)SiO3
- base line — a line serving as a base
- base load — the more or less constant part of the total load on an electrical power-supply system
- baseballs — Plural form of baseball.
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- baselines — Plural form of baseline.
- baseplate — a flat supporting plate or frame at the base of a column, designed to distribute the column's weight over a greater area and provide increased stability
- basinlike — resembling a basin
- basipetal — (of leaves and flowers) produced in order from the apex downwards so that the youngest are at the base
- basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
- basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- basrelief — Alternative form of bas-relief.
- bass clef — the clef that establishes F a fifth below middle C on the fourth line of the staff
- bastilles — Plural form of bastille.
- battelles — Plural form of battell.