5-letter words containing s, l, i
- silko — Leslie Marmon [mahr-muh n] /ˈmɑr mən/ (Show IPA), born 1948, U.S. poet, novelist, and short-story writer.
- silky — of or like silk; smooth, lustrous, soft, or delicate: silky skin.
- sills — Mount, a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 14,153 feet (4314 meters).
- silly — weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
- silty — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- silva — the forest trees of a particular area.
- simla — a city in and the capital of Himachal Pradesh, in N India.
- simpl — Simulation language, descendant of OPS-4, compiled into PL/I on Multics. "The SIMPL Primer", M.W. Jones et al, Oct 1971.
- simul — (in prescriptions) together.
- sinal — of, relating to, or involving a sinus.
- siple — Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, on the E coast of Marie Byrd Land. 15,000 feet (4570 meters).
- sisal — Also called sisal hemp. a fiber yielded by an agave, Agave sisalana, of Yucatán, used for making rope, rugs, etc.
- skail — a scattering or dispersal
- skill — the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well: Carpentry was one of his many skills.
- skirl — to play the bagpipe.
- slain — past participle of slay.
- slice — a thin, flat piece cut from something: a slice of bread.
- slick — smooth and glossy; sleek.
- slide — to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface: to slide down a snow-covered hill.
- slier — a comparative of sly.
- sligo — a county in Connaught province, in the NW Republic of Ireland. 694 sq. mi. (1795 sq. km).
- slily — a variant spelling of slyly
- slime — thin, glutinous mud.
- slimy — of or like slime.
- sling — an iced alcoholic drink, typically containing gin, water, sugar, and lemon or lime juice.
- slink — to move or go in a furtive, abject manner, as from fear, cowardice, or shame.
- slipe — a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- slips — "An Interpreter for SLIPS - An Applicative Language Based on Lambda-Calculus", V. Gehot et al, Comp Langs 11(1):1-14 (1986).
- slipt — simple past tense of slip1 .
- slirp — (networking, tool) A SLIP emulator by Danny Gasparovski, faster than TIA. Version: 0.95H 12 Sep 95.
- slish — a cut, slit or slash
- slive — to cut or slice
- sllic — (language) An intermediate language developed at HP. An infinite-register version of the Precision Architecture instruction set?
- sloid — a system of manual training based on experience gained in woodworking, originally developed in Sweden.
- sluit — (in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.
- smail — snail mail.
- smile — a pleasant or agreeable appearance, look, or aspect.
- snail — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
- soily — relating to or characteristic of soil
- solei — a muscle in the calf of the leg, behind the gastrocnemius muscle, that helps extend the foot forward.
- solid — having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
- solti — Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- spial — an observation
- spiel — a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- spile — a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- spill — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
- spilt — a simple past tense and past participle of spill1 .
- split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- stijl — a school of art that was founded in the Netherlands in 1917, embraced painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and the decorative arts, and was marked especially by the use of black and white with the primary colors, rectangular forms, and asymmetry.