8-letter words containing s, i, l, e, a
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pin seal — leather made of the skin of young seals.
- plaister — plaster.
- plausive — applauding.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- queasily — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- rabelais — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.
- realised — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realises — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realisms — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- realties — real property or real estate.
- reassail — to assail (someone or something) again
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
- residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- rivaless — a female rival
- ruisdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- salaried — receiving a salary: a salaried employee.
- salering — an enclosed area for livestock at market
- salesian — a member of the Society of St. Francis de Sales, a congregation founded in Turin in 1845 and engaged chiefly in missionary and educational work.
- salience — the state or condition of being salient.
- saliency — salience.
- salified — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salinger — J(erome) D(avid) 1971–2010, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- salinize — to treat with salt or render saline.
- salivate — to produce saliva.
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- sanglier — a closely woven fabric made of mohair or worsted, constructed in plain weave, and finished to simulate the coat of a boar.
- satiable — capable of being satiated.
- saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
- saxicole — living on or among rocks
- sayville — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- scenical — of or relating to natural scenery.
- sea lift — an operation to move people, troops or goods by sea
- sea lily — a stalked, sessile crinoid.
- sea lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sea mile — nautical mile.
- sea-lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- seablite — any of several halophytic herbs of the genus Suaeda, having fleshy leaves.
- sealskin — the skin of a seal.
- seamlike — like or resembling a seam
- seasnail — any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
- seizable — to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
- selamlik — the portion of a Turkish palace or house reserved for men.
- selenian — of the moon; lunar