6-letter words containing s, e, l
- semele — a daughter of Cadmus and mother, by Zeus, of Dionysus.
- semple — simple; straightforward; humble; honest; lowly; common
- sendal — a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
- senile — showing a decline or deterioration of physical strength or mental functioning, especially short-term memory and alertness, as a result of old age or disease.
- 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.
- sequel — a literary work, movie, etc., that is complete in itself but continues the narrative of a preceding work.
- serial — anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- serlio — Sebastiano 1475–1554, Italian architect and painter, best known for his treatise Complete Works on Architecture and Perspective (1537–75), the first to set out the principles of classical architecture and to give rules for their application
- 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.
- seseli — a member of the Seseli genus of umbelliferous garden plants
- settle — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- setula — a short, blunt seta.
- setule — a small bristle or spine on seta
- sewall — Samuel, 1652–1730, American jurist, born in England.
- sewell — Anna, 1820–78, English author.
- sexily — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
- 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.
- she'll — She'll is the usual spoken form of 'she will'.
- sheila — a female given name, form of Celia.
- shekel — Also, sheqel. a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Israel equal to 100 agorot: replaced the pound in 1980.
- shelby — a city in S North Carolina.
- shelfy — full of sandbanks or reefs hidden beneath the water's surface
- shells — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shelly — abounding in shells: a shelly surf.
- shelta — a private language, based in part on Irish, used among Travelers in the British Isles.
- shelty — Shetland pony.
- shelve — to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.
- shelvy — full of sandbanks or reefs hidden beneath the water's surface
- sheqel — shekel (def 1).
- sheryl — a female given name, form of Shirley.
- shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
- shlepp — to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
- sholes — Christopher Latham [ley-thuh m,, -th uh m] /ˈleɪ θəm,, -ðəm/ (Show IPA), 1819–90, U.S. inventor of the typewriter.
- shovel — an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
- shtetl — (formerly) a Jewish village or small-town community in eastern Europe.
- sickle — an implement for cutting grain, grass, etc., consisting of a curved, hooklike blade mounted in a short handle.
- sidled — to move sideways or obliquely.
- sidley — Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, in Marie Byrd Land. 13,717 feet (4181 meters).
- siècle — century, period, or era
- siffle — to whistle
- 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.
- silene — any plant of the large perennial genus Silene, with mostly red or pink flowers; many, esp S. or Agrostemma coeli-rosa, are grown as garden plants: family Carophyllaceae
- sileni — a forest spirit, sometimes referred to as the oldest of the satyrs and the foster father, teacher, and companion of Dionysus: often represented as a bearded old man.
- silent — making no sound; quiet; still: a silent motor.
- silken — made of silk.
- silkie — a mythical creature that looks like a seal in water but assumes human form on land.