6-letter words containing s, i, l
- calais — a port in N France, on the Strait of Dover: the nearest French port to England; belonged to England 1347–1558. Pop: 75 790 (2006)
- caulis — the main stem of a plant
- cavils — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- cecils — fried meatballs
- chesil — small stones often found on beaches and worn by the action of the sea
- chiels — Plural form of chiel.
- childs — (nonstandard, rare) Plural form of child.
- chiles — Plural form of chile, an alternative form of 'chili'.
- chilis — Plural form of chili.
- chills — Plural form of chill.
- chisel — A chisel is a tool that has a long metal blade with a sharp edge at the end. It is used for cutting and shaping wood and stone.
- cholis — Plural form of choli.
- cisele — noting or pertaining to velvet having a chiseled or embossed pattern produced by contrasting cut and uncut pile.
- civils — (esp in names of companies) civil engineering
- claims — Plural form of claim.
- claris — (company) A subsidiary company of Apple Computer, Inc.. In January 1998, Apple restructured Claris to concentrate on their FileMaker line of database software and changed the company's name to FileMaker, Inc..
- clavis — a key
- clevis — the U-shaped component of a shackle for attaching a drawbar to a plough or similar implement
- clicks — Plural form of click.
- cliffs — Plural form of cliff.
- climbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of climb.
- climes — Plural form of clime.
- clines — Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- clings — Plural form of cling.
- clinks — Plural form of clink.
- clisis — the act or process of becoming a clitic.
- clites — Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- cloris — a male or female given name.
- clovis — of or relating to a Paleo-Indian cultural tradition of North America, especially the American Southwest, dated 10,000–9000 b.c. and characterized by a usually bifacial, fluted stone projectile point (Clovis point) used in big-game hunting.
- clusia — a tropical tree of the genus Clusia
- clysis — the administration of an enema.
- colics — Plural form of colic.
- cosily — In a cosy manner.
- coulis — a thin purée of vegetables, fruit, etc, usually served as a sauce surrounding a dish
- cullis — a gutter in or at the eaves of a roof
- dalasi — the standard monetary unit of The Gambia, divided into 100 bututs
- deasil — in the direction of the apparent course of the sun; clockwise
- delish — delicious
- delist — If a company delists or if its shares are delisted, its shares are removed from the official list of shares that can be traded on the stock market.
- delius — Frederick. 1862–1934, English composer, who drew inspiration from folk tunes and the sounds of nature. His works include the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet (1901), A Mass of Life (1905), and the orchestral variations Brigg Fair (1907)
- desilt — To remove suspended silt from the water.
- devils — Plural form of devil.
- diesel — noting a machine or vehicle powered by a diesel engine: diesel locomotive.
- dildos — An object shaped like an erect penis used for sexual stimulation.
- dillys — Dili.
- discal — relating to or resembling a disc; disclike
- dismal — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
- dispel — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- disple — (obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
- distal — situated away from the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone; terminal. Compare proximal.