8-letter words containing s, i, l, e, a
- measlier — Comparative form of measly.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- medalist — a person to whom a medal has been awarded.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- melanise — Alt form melanize.
- melanism — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesially — Toward the central plane of a body with bilateral symmetry.
- metalist — a person who works with metals.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- miladies — Plural form of milady.
- milanese — a native or inhabitant of Milan, Italy.
- mileages — Plural form of mileage.
- milesian — a native of Miletus.
- minerals — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- misalter — to alter wrongly
- mislabel — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- misleads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mislead.
- mislearn — To learn wrongly.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- missable — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- modalise — Alternative spelling of modalize.
- moralise — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- nail set — a short rod of steel used to drive a nail below or flush with a surface.
- nainsell — own self
- nasalise — Alternative spelling of nasalize.
- nasalize — to pronounce as a nasal sound.
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- olivares — Conde-Ducque de, title of Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental. 1587–1645, Spanish statesman: court favourite and prime minister (1621–43) of Philip IV. His attempts to establish Hapsburg domination of Europe ended in failure
- oversail — a projection
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- pessimal — /pes'im-l/ (Latin-based antonym for "optimal") Maximally bad. "This is a pessimal situation." Also "pessimise" To make as bad as possible. These words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for "optimal" and "optimise", but for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although "pessimise" is listed in the OED.