9-letter words containing s, t, e, l
- servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- set loose — to make free; release
- settle in — make oneself at home
- settle on — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- settle up — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- settlings — the act of a person or thing that settles.
- seventhly — as the seventh point; linking what follows to the previous statements, as in a speech or argument
- severalty — the state of being separate.
- sextantal — pertaining to the weight standard that determined the worth of Roman coins
- sextuplet — a group or combination of six things.
- sextuplex — sixfold; sextuple.
- sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
- sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- shaftless — lacking a shaft
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- sheetless — lacking sheets
- sheetlike — resembling a sheet
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shell out — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- sheltered — protected or shielded from storms, missiles, etc., by a wall, roof, barrier, or the like.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- shirtless — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- shit-hole — a very bad place; a disgusting place
- shootable — suitable for being shot
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- shot hole — a condition in plants in which small, rounded spots drop out of the leaves, appearing as if the leaves were riddled by shot, resulting from infection or injury.
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- sidelight — an item of incidental information.
- sidetable — a small table at the side of a room
- sighthole — a hole, as on a quadrant, through which to see or to sight.
- sightless — unable to see; blind.
- sightline — any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater, stadium, etc.: Some of the sightlines are blocked by columns.
- sigillate — (of a ceramic object) having stamped decorations.
- silicates — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- silk tree — a tree, Albizia julibrissin, of the legume family, native to Asia, having pinnate leaves and plumelike pink flowers and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- siltstone — a very fine-grained sandstone, mainly consolidated silt.
- silvertip — grizzly bear.
- silvester — Sylvester II.
- simmental — one of a large breed of cattle, yellowish-brown to red and white, originally of Switzerland, used for milk and beef and as a draft animal.
- simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
- simpliste — someone who tends to over-simplify
- simulated — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- singleton — a person or thing occurring singly, especially an individual set apart from others.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- skill set — a particular combination of skills that a person has developed, especially ones that can be used in a job: She doesn't have the proper skill set to be an effective manager.
- skirtless — having, or wearing, no skirt