6-letter words containing s, i, l
- insula — a group of convolutions situated at the base of the lateral fissure of the brain.
- insull — Samuel, 1859–1938, U.S. public utilities magnate, born in England.
- insult — to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
- isabel — a female given name.
- iseult — Also, Yseult. German Isolde. Arthurian Romance. the daughter of a king of Ireland who became the wife of King Mark of Cornwall: she was the beloved of Tristram. daughter of the king of Brittany, and wife of Tristram.
- island — a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
- islets — Plural form of islet.
- isling — a small island.
- islisp — International Standard Lisp. An object-oriented Lisp intended as an international replacement for Common Lisp, EuLisp, Le-Lisp and Scheme. The standard's goals are object orientation, extensibility, efficiency, and suitability for non-academic use. The standard is defined in ISO WG 16, draft Dec 1992.
- ismael — Ishmael (def 1).
- isohel — a line on a weather map connecting points that receive equal amounts of sunshine.
- isolda — a female given name, form of Iseult.
- isolde — German name of Iseult.
- isolex — an isogloss marking off the area in which a particular item of vocabulary is found
- isolog — one of two or more isologous compounds.
- israel — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- itself — Used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a thing or animal previously mentioned as the subject of the clause.
- jpldis — Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display Information System. Query system for UNIVAC 1108 [or PDP's?] written in Fortran, based on Tymshare's "Retrieve". Indirectly led to Vulcan which led to dBASE II. Jack Hatfield, George Masters, W. Van Snyder, Jeb Long et al, JPL.
- julies — a female given name, form of Julia.
- julius — (Giammaria Ciocchi del Monte; Giovanni Maria del Monte) 1487–1555, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1550–55.
- kailas — a mountain in SW Tibet: highest peak of the Kailas Range in the Himalaya Mountains: sacred to Hindus and Buddhists. 22,028 feet (6714 meters).
- kalais — the winged son of Boreas the north wind. As Argonauts he and his brother Zetes chased away the Harpies.
- kalifs — Plural form of kalif.
- kalisz — a city in central Poland.
- kallis — Jacques (Henry), born 1975, South African cricketer; an all-rounder, in 166 tests (1995–2013) he scored 13,289 runs and took 292 wickets
- kalpis — a form of the hydria.
- kilims — Plural form of kilim.
- killas — Cornish clay slate
- kislev — the third month of the Jewish calendar.
- kissel — A dessert made from fruit juice or purée, boiled with sugar and water and thickened with potato or cornstarch.
- kleist — (Bernd) Heinrich (Wilhelm) von [bernt hahyn-rikh vil-helm fuh n] /bɛrnt ˈhaɪn rɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1777–1811, German poet, dramatist, and story writer.
- kulfis — Plural form of kulfi.
- kylies — Plural form of kylie.
- l sill — a sill for a building frame composed of a plate resting on the basement wall and a header or joist at the outer edge of the plate.
- ladies — a woman who is refined, polite, and well-spoken: She may be poor and have little education, but she's a real lady.
- laipse — to beat soundly
- lairds — Plural form of laird.
- laisse — A section of verse concerning a single theme; tirade.
- lakish — similar to the poetry of the Lake poets
- lamias — Plural form of lamia.
- lamish — Somewhat lame.
- lanais — Plural form of lanai.
- landis — Kenesaw Mountain [ken-uh-saw] /ˈkɛn əˌsɔ/ (Show IPA), 1866–1944, U.S. jurist: first commissioner of baseball 1920–44.
- larisa — a city in E Thessaly, in E Greece.
- lashio — a town in N Burma (Myanmar), NE of Mandalay: the SW terminus of the Burma Road.
- lasing — the generation of coherent light by a laser.
- lassie — a young girl; lass.
- lathis — Plural form of lathi.
- latish — somewhat or rather late.
- lavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.