7-letter words containing s, l, a, i
- plasmic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plasmid — a segment of DNA independent of the chromosomes and capable of replication, occurring in bacteria and yeast: used in recombinant DNA procedures to transfer genetic material from one cell to another.
- plasmin — fibrinolysin.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- plastid — a small, double-membraned organelle of plant cells and certain protists, occurring in several varieties, as the chloroplast, and containing ribosomes, prokaryotic DNA, and, often, pigment.
- polaris — a distinctive English argot in use since at least the 18th century among groups of theatrical and circus performers and in certain homosexual communities, derived largely from Italian, directly or through Lingua Franca.
- pulaski — a double-edged hand tool having an ax blade on one side and a pickax or wide chisel on the opposite side, used especially in clearing land and removing tree stumps.
- radials — Plural form of radial.
- railbus — a bus-like vehicle for use on railway lines
- railers — to utter bitter complaint or vehement denunciation (often followed by at or against): to rail at fate.
- rawlins — a town in S Wyoming.
- realise — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- realist — a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- revisal — the act of revising; revision.
- riksmal — Bokmål.
- rosalia — scarlet fever
- rosalie — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning rose festival.
- saclike — a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- sahiwal — a breed of cattle in India
- sail in — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- sailing — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- saintlo — a department in NW France. 2476 sq. mi. (6413 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Lô.
- saintly — pertaining to, like, or befitting a saint: saintly lives.
- saladin — (Salāh-ed-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb) 1137–93, sultan of Egypt and Syria 1175–93: opponent of Crusaders.
- salamis — a kind of sausage, originally Italian, often flavored with garlic.
- salicin — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble glucoside, C 1 3 H 1 8 O 7 , obtained from the bark of the American aspen: used in medicine chiefly as an antipyretic and analgesic.
- salient — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- salieri — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1750–1825, Italian composer and conductor.
- saligot — the water chestnut, Trapa natans
- salinas — a city in central Kansas.
- salique — Salic.
- salival — salivary
- sallied — a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
- salpinx — a trumpet-shaped tube, as a Fallopian or Eustachian tube.
- salsify — a purple-flowered, composite plant, Tragopogon porrifolius, whose root has an oyster-like flavor and is used as a culinary vegetable.
- salt ii — either of two preliminary five-year agreements between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for the control of certain nuclear weapons, the first concluded in 1972 (SALT I) and the second drafted in 1979 (SALT II) but not ratified.
- saltier — tasting of or containing salt; saline.
- saltily — in a salty manner
- saltine — a crisp, salted cracker.
- salting — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- saltire — an ordinary in the form of a cross with arms running diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base and from the sinister chief to the dexter base; St. Andrew's cross.
- saltish — somewhat salty.
- salving — a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
- sanicle — any plant belonging to the genus Sanicula, of the parsley family, as S. marilandica, of America, used in medicine.
- santali — the Munda language spoken by the Santal.
- sapling — a young tree.
- sassily — impertinent; insolent; saucy: a sassy reply; a sassy teen.
- satilla — a river in SE Georgia, flowing E to the Atlantic Ocean. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- saucily — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.