7-letter words containing s, i, n, e
- sphenic — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spignel — a European umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum, of mountain regions, having white flowers and finely divided aromatic leaves
- spinate — having thorns or a spine
- spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- spinner — a person or thing that spins.
- spinney — a small wood or thicket.
- spinode — cusp (def 3).
- spinose — full of spines; spiniferous; spinous.
- spinule — a small spine.
- splenic — of, pertaining to, connected with, or affecting the spleen: splenic nerves.
- splined — a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- springe — a snare for catching small game.
- spunkie — a will-o'-the-wisp.
- stainer — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- staines — a town in Surrey, SE England, on the Thames River near Heathrow airport.
- staniel — a kestrel
- stanine — a unit on a scale of nine levels used to group the results of aptitude tests, or this method or scale of testing
- starnie — a little star
- stearin — Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 1 8 H 3 5 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- steinem — Gloria, born 1934, U.S. women's-rights activist, journalist, and editor.
- steiner — Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- stencil — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- step in — (of garments, shoes, etc.) put on by being stepped into.
- step-in — (of garments, shoes, etc.) put on by being stepped into.
- stettin — German name of Szczecin.
- stewing — to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
- sthenia — strength; excessive vital force.
- sthenic — sturdy; heavily and strongly built.
- stibine — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous gas, SbH 3 , usually produced by the reaction of dilute hydrochloric acid with an alloy of antimony and either zinc or magnesium.
- stiffen — to make stiff.
- stikine — a river in NW British Columbia, Canada and SE Alaska, flowing W and SW to the Pacific Ocean: important route in 1890s Klondike gold rush. 335 miles (539 km) long.
- stinger — a person or thing that stings.
- stinker — a person or thing that stinks.
- stinnes — Hugo [hoo-gaw;; English hyoo-goh] /ˈhu gɔ;; English ˈhyu goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1924, German industrialist.
- stinted — to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
- stipend — a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
- striven — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- suberin — a waxlike, fatty substance, occurring in cork cell walls and in or between other cells, that on alkaline hydrolysis yields chiefly suberic acid.
- subline — a secondary headline
- sueding — kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
- suevian — a member of an ancient Germanic people of uncertain origin, mentioned in the writings of Caesar and Tacitus.
- sunlike — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- sunnier — abounding in sunshine: a sunny day.
- sunnies — a pair of sunglasses
- sunnite — Sunni (def 1).
- sunrise — a city in SE Florida.
- sunview — A windowing system from Sun Microsystems, superseded by NeWS.
- sunwise — in the direction of the sun's apparent daily motion.
- swidden — a plot of land cleared for farming by burning away vegetation.
- swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.