6-letter words containing s, e, l
- sloven — a person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness in dress, appearance, etc.
- sludge — mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
- sluice — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- sluter — Claus (klaʊs). ?1345–1406, Dutch sculptor, working in Burgundy, whose realism influenced many sculptors and painters in 15th-century Europe. He is best known for the portal sculptures and the Well of Moses in the Carthusian monastery at Champnol
- slyest — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- smelly — emitting a strong or unpleasant odor; reeking.
- smiled — to assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth.
- smiles — to assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth.
- smilet — a little smile
- smiley — a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression, as :‐) for a smiling face or ;‐) for a winking face. Compare emoticon.
- snelly — in a sharp or snell manner
- snivel — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- sobole — a creeping underground stem that produces roots and buds; a sucker
- soiled — to feed (confined cattle, horses, etc.) freshly cut green fodder for roughage.
- solace — comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort.
- solate — to change from a gel to a sol.
- solder — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- solely — as the only one or ones: solely responsible.
- solemn — grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood: solemn remarks.
- solent — The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- solera — (especially in Spain) a series of casks, graded according to age, in which sherries and brandies are stored while maturing.
- soleri — Paolo [pou-loh] /ˈpaʊ loʊ/ (Show IPA), 1919–2013, U.S. architect, born in Italy.
- soleus — a muscle in the calf of the leg, behind the gastrocnemius muscle, that helps extend the foot forward.
- solgel — pertaining to alternation between the sol and gel states, as in the pseudopodia of amebas.
- solive — a nonessential joist
- solute — the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- solver — to find the answer or explanation for; clear up; explain: to solve the mystery of the missing books.
- sorely — in a painful manner.
- sorrel — any of various plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, having edible acid leaves used in salads, sauces, etc.
- souled — having a soul
- souple — silk from which only a portion of the sericin has been removed.
- sozzle — a state of disorder
- specol — ["SPECOL - A Computer Enquiry Language for the Non-Programmer", B.T. Smith, Computer J 11:121 (1968)].
- speltz — a wheat variety
- spiles — a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- spinel — any of a group of minerals composed principally of oxides of magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, etc., characterized by their hardness and octahedral crystals.
- splake — the hybrid offspring of a lake trout and a brook trout.
- spleen — a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
- splen- — spleno-
- splice — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- spline — a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- splore — a frolic; revel; carousal.
- squeal — a somewhat prolonged, sharp, shrill cry, as of pain, fear, or surprise.
- ssleay — (networking, security, protocol) A free implementation of Netscape's Secure Socket Layer protocol, coded from scratch, using only the publically available documentation of the various protocols, by Eric Young in Australia. SSLeay supports the DES, RSA, RC4, and IDEA encryption algorithms.
- stable — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- stadle — staddle.
- staled — not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- staple — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- steale — a handle
- steele — Sir Richard, 1672–1729, English essayist, journalist, dramatist, and political leader; born in Ireland.