5-letter words containing s, i
- distr — distributed
- ditsy — flighty and easily confused; mildly or harmlessly eccentric.
- divas — Plural form of diva.
- dives — an act or instance of diving.
- divis — Plural form of divi.
- djins — jinn.
- doisy — Edward Adelbert [ad-l-bert,, uh-del-] /ˈæd l bərt,, əˈdɛl-/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1943.
- doits — Plural form of doit.
- doris — an ancient region in central Greece: the earliest home of the Dorians.
- dribs — Plural form of drib.
- dries — a plural of dry.
- drips — Plural form of drip.
- easie — Obsolete spelling of easy.
- eblis — the chief evil jinni in Islamic mythology
- edits — Plural form of edit.
- egusi — Melon seeds that are ground to make soup in Africa.
- eidos — The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group.
- eisel — (obsolete) vinegar, verjuice.
- elias — Elijah
- elisa — enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: an immunological technique for accurately measuring the amount of a substance, for example in a blood sample
- elisp — 1. (language) A Lisp variant originally implemented for DEC-20s by Chuck Hedrick of Rutgers. 2. (language) A common abbreviation for Emacs Lisp. Use of this abbreviation is discouraged because "Elisp" is or was a trademark.
- ellis — EuLisp LInda System. An object-oriented Linda system written for EuLisp. "Using Object-Oriented Mechanisms to Describe Linda", P. Broadbery <[email protected]> et al, in Linda-Like Systems and Their Implementation, G. Wilson ed, U Edinburgh TR 91-13, 1991.
- elsie — (language) A distributed version of ELLIS.
- elvis — (tool) A vi lookalike which supports nearly all of the vi/ex commands, in both visual mode and colon mode. Like vi/ex, elvis stores most of the text in a temporary file instead of RAM. This allows it to edit files that are too large to fit in a single process' data space. Elvis runs under BSD UNIX, AT&T SysV UNIX, MINIX, MS-DOS, Atari TOS, Coherent, OS9/68000, VMS, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Elvis is just as awful to use as vi, so someone will like it. Version 1.8pl14 (1995-09-04). E-mail: Steve Kirkendall <[email protected]>.
- emirs — Plural form of emir.
- emits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emit.
- ennis — a town in the W Republic of Ireland, county town of Co Clare. Pop: 22 051 (2002)
- eosin — A red fluorescent dye that is a bromine derivative of fluorescein, or one of its salts or other derivatives.
- epics — Plural form of epic.
- epis. — Epistle
- épris — enamoured
- erisa — law: Employee Retirement Income Security Act
- esile — vinegar
- etuis — Plural form of etui.
- evils — Plural form of evil.
- exies — a fit of shaking, shivering or hysterics; ague
- exist — Have objective reality or being.
- exits — Plural form of exit.
- fails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fail.
- fairs — Plural form of fair.
- farsi — the modern Iranian language of Iran and western Afghanistan, written in the Arabic alphabet; modern Persian.
- fasti — The calendar in Ancient Rome, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
- fdisk — (operating system, tool) (Fixed disk utility) An MS-DOS utility program which prepares a hard disk so that it can be used as a boot disk and file systems can be created on it. OS/2, NT, Windows 95, Linux, and other Unix versions all have this command or something similar.
- feist — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- felis — a genus of mostly small cats, including the domestic cat, margay, puma, and ocelot, sharing with certain cats of related genera an inability to roar due to ossification of the hyoid bone in the larynx.
- fetis — (obsolete) neat; pretty; well made; graceful.
- fiars — (in Scotland) the legally fixed prices for corn
- fiats — Plural form of fiat.
- fices — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- ficus — any of numerous chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, and vines belonging to the genus Ficus, of the mulberry family, having milky sap and large, thick or stiff leaves, including the edible fig, the banyan, and many species grown as ornamentals.