6-letter words containing s, e, l
- steels — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- steely — consisting or made of steel.
- stelae — stele (defs 1–3).
- stelai — an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- stelar — an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- sterol — any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- stifle — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
- stipel — a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- stoled — having or clothed in a stole
- stolen — past participle of steal.
- stoles — an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below. Compare tippet (def 2).
- streel — a slovenly woman
- styler — a person or thing that styles.
- stylet — a stiletto or dagger.
- stylie — fashion-conscious
- suable — liable to be sued; capable of being sued.
- sublet — to sublease.
- subtle — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- suckle — to nurse at the breast or udder.
- sulked — to remain silent or hold oneself aloof in a sullen, ill-humored, or offended mood: Promise me that you won't sulk if I want to leave the party early.
- sulker — to remain silent or hold oneself aloof in a sullen, ill-humored, or offended mood: Promise me that you won't sulk if I want to leave the party early.
- sullen — showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
- superl — superlative
- suplex — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler grasps his opponent round the waist from behind and carries him backwards
- supple — bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible: a supple bough.
- surely — firmly; unerringly; without missing, slipping, etc.
- sutile — made by stitching
- sutlej — a river in S Asia, flowing W and SW from SW Tibet through NW India into the Indus River in Pakistan. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- sutler — (formerly) a person who followed an army or maintained a store on an army post to sell provisions to the soldiers.
- suttle — a frequent misspelling of subtle.
- svelte — slender, especially gracefully slender in figure; lithe.
- swiler — (in Newfoundland) a seal hunter
- swiple — the part of a flail that strikes the grain in threshing
- swivel — a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, especially to turn in a full circle.
- tassel — a pendent ornament consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc.
- teasel — any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads. Compare teasel family.
- tehsil — an administrative region of India
- telesm — a talisman
- tells' — an artificial mound consisting of the accumulated remains of one or more ancient settlements (often used in Egypt and the Middle East as part of a place name).
- tellus — an ancient Roman goddess of the earth, marriage, and fertility, identified with the Greek goddess Gaea.
- telsim — Busch, ca 1966. Digital simulation.
- telson — the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- thales — c640–546? b.c, Greek philosopher, born in Miletus.
- tinsel — a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.
- titles — subtitles
- tolsel — a tolbooth
- torsel — a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- tousle — to disorder or dishevel: The wind tousled our hair.
- tulles — a city in and the capital of Corrèze, in S central France.