7-letter words containing s, i, l
- blitzes — Military. an overwhelming all-out attack, especially a swift ground attack using armored units and air support. an intensive aerial bombing.
- blueish — bluish
- bolices — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- bolshie — Bolshevik
- bossily — given to ordering people about; overly authoritative; domineering.
- briskly — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- bristle — Bristles are the short hairs that grow on a man's chin after he has shaved. The hairs on the top of a man's head can also be called bristles when they are cut very short.
- bristly — Bristly hair is thick and rough.
- bristol — seaport in Avon, SW England: county district pop. 376,000
- bulimus — any of a genus of terrestrial molluscs with elongated spiral shells, commonly found in tropical America
- bullish — On the stock market, if there is a bullish mood, prices are expected to rise. Compare bearish.
- busgirl — a waiter's assistant
- butlins — one of the two best-known traditional holiday camps in Britain
- calices — calix
- caliphs — Plural form of caliph.
- callais — a green stone found as beads and ornaments in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age of W Europe
- callins — a program in which listeners or viewers phone in comments or questions to the host or a person being interviewed.
- carlish — churlish or coarse
- carlist — (in Spain) a supporter of Don Carlos or his descendants as the rightful kings of Spain
- castile — a former kingdom comprising most of modern Spain: originally part of León, it became an independent kingdom in the 10th century and united with Aragon (1469), the first step in the formation of the Spanish state
- celiacs — Plural form of celiac.
- cellist — A cellist is someone who plays the cello.
- cellsim — (application) A program for modelling populations of biological cells.
- celosia — any of several species (genus Celosia) of the amaranth family, of annual garden plants with minute, brilliant red or yellow flowers in large clusters; cockscomb
- celsius — Celsius is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
- chablis — a dry white burgundy wine made around Chablis, in central France
- chalcis — a city on the island of Euboea in SE Greece, at the narrowest point of the Euripus strait: important since the 7th century bc, founding many colonies in ancient times. Pop (municipality): 55 264 (2001)
- challis — a lightweight plain-weave fabric of wool, cotton, etc, usually with a printed design
- chilies — Plural form of chili.
- chisels — Plural form of chisel.
- cicalas — Plural form of cicala.
- cicelys — a female given name, form of Cecilia.
- circles — A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
- citoles — Plural form of citole.
- cladism — the cladistic method of classification.
- cladist — a specialist in cladistics
- classic — A classic example of a thing or situation has all the features which you expect such a thing or situation to have.
- classis — a governing body of elders or pastors
- clastic — (of sedimentary rock, etc) composed of fragments of pre-existing rock that have been transported some distance from their points of origin
- clavius — one of the largest of the craters on the moon, about 230 kilometres (145 miles) in diameter, whose walls have peaks up to 5700 metres (19 000 feet) above the floor. It lies in the SE quadrant
- clayish — Resembling clay.
- clerics — Plural form of cleric.
- clerisy — learned or educated people collectively
- cliches — Plural form of cliche.
- clients — a person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.
- clinics — A place or hospital department where outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, esp. of a specialist nature.
- cliques — Plural form of clique.
- clivers — cleavers.
- cloison — a partition
- clonism — a series of clonic spasms