8-letter words containing s, i, l
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bullshit — If you say that something is bullshit, you are saying that it is nonsense or completely untrue.
- bullyism — the belief in systematic bullying
- bus line — the route of a bus or buses.
- bushlike — resembling a bush
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- cabalism — a mystical philosophical doctrine based on the doctrines of the cabala
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- caliches — Plural form of caliche.
- calicoes — Plural form of calico.
- calipash — the greenish glutinous edible part of the turtle found next to the upper shell, considered a delicacy
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calisaya — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted
- calixtus — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- callisto — a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera. Zeus then set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- camelish — similar to a camel
- camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- cannolis — Plural form of cannoli.
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- capitals — Plural form of capital.
- capitols — Plural form of capitol.
- capsidal — forming a capsid, or relating to capsids
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carlings — Plural form of carling.
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- castalia — a spring on Mount Parnassus: in ancient Greece sacred to Apollo and the Muses and believed to be a source of inspiration
- castilho — Antonio Feliciano de [ahn-taw-n-yoo fuh-lees-yah-noo] /ɑ̃ˈtɔˈn yu fə lisˈyɑ nu/ (Show IPA), 1800–75, Portuguese poet.
- castilla — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1797–1867, Peruvian general and statesman: president of Peru 1845–51 and 1855–62.
- castillo — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Cánovas del Castillo del Rey) 1908–1984, Spanish fashion designer.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- cattails — Plural form of cattail.
- cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
- ceilidhs — Plural form of ceilidh.
- ceilings — Plural form of ceiling.
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- cellists — Plural form of cellist.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.