7-letter words containing s, l, a, i
- savvily — in a savvy manner
- sawbill — any of various hummingbirds of the genus Ramphodon
- sawmill — a place or building in which timber is sawed into planks, boards, etc., by machinery.
- scaglia — a type of reddish limestone found in Italy
- scaling — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scarily — in a scary or frightening manner
- scribal — a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
- seal in — If something seals in a smell or liquid, it prevents it from getting out of a food.
- sealift — a system for transporting persons or cargo by ship, especially in an emergency.
- sealine — a company running regular sailings
- sealing — a substance that seals; sealant
- sedalia — a city in central Missouri.
- sedilia — one of the seats (usually three) on the south side of the chancel, often recessed, for the use of the officiating clergy.
- seminal — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
- serkali — (in Africa) the government
- shadily — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
- shakily — tending to shake or tremble.
- shawlie — a working-class woman, esp one who wears a shawl
- shiplap — an overlapping joint, as a rabbet, between two boards joined edge to edge.
- shrinal — relating to a shrine
- sialkot — a city in NE Pakistan: military station.
- sialoid — resembling saliva
- sibylla — an Asian maiden who gained from her lover Apollo the gift of prophecy and long life.
- sicilia — Italian name of Sicily.
- sideral — attributed to the influence of the stars
- silesia — a region in central Europe along both banks of the upper Oder River, mainly in SW Poland and the N Czech Republic: formerly divided between Germany (which had the largest portion), Poland, and Czechoslovakia; by provision of the Potsdam agreement 1945, the greater part of German Silesia came under Polish administration; rich deposits of coal, iron, and other minerals.
- siliqua — a silver coin of the later Roman Empire, the 24th part of a solidus, first issued by Constantine.
- silvana — a female given name, form of Silvia or Sylvia.
- similar — having a likeness or resemblance, especially in a general way: two similar houses.
- simular — a person or thing that simulates; pretender.
- sinaloa — a state in W Mexico, bordering on the Gulf of California. 22,582 sq. mi. (58,485 sq. km). Capital: Culiacán.
- sinhala — Sinhalese adjective
- sinical — relating to a sine
- sitella — any of various small generally black-and-white birds of the genus Neositta, having a straight sharp beak and strong claws used to run up trees in search of insects: family Sittidae (nuthatches)
- sizable — of considerable size; fairly large: He inherited a sizable fortune.
- skysail — (in a square-rigged vessel) a light square sail next above the royal.
- slainte — cheers!
- slaking — to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
- slating — a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- slatkin — Leonard. born 1944, US conductor; musical director of the St Louis Symphony Orchestra (1979–96) and of the National Symphony Orchestra (1996–2008)
- slaving — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- slavish — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- slavism — something that is native to, characteristic of, or associated with the Slavs or Slavic.
- slavist — a specialist in the study of Slavic languages, cultures, etc.
- slaying — A slaying is a murder.
- sliotar — the ball used in hurling
- slipway — (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
- slydial — a telephone service that enables the caller to ring a person’s telephone number and leave a voice message on their answering machine but which eliminates the possibility of the caller having to have an unwanted conversation with that person
- soilage — an act or instance of soiling.
- solaris — (operating system) Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s version of the Unix operating system. As well as the core operating system, Solaris inludes networking software, the Java Virtual Machine, the CDE/Desktop that includes an X11-based windowing environment and graphical user interface. Sun claim that Solaris is not just an operating system but an "operating environment". Solaris 1.x was a retroactive (marketing?) name for SunOS 4.1.x (where x>=1). Solaris 2.x (which is the first version most people call "Solaris") includes SunOS5.x, which is an SVR4-derived Unix, OpenWindows 3.x, and tooltalk.