8-letter words containing s, t, i, l, n
- settling — the act of a person or thing that settles.
- sibilant — hissing.
- silently — making no sound; quiet; still: a silent motor.
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- slant-in — slant (def 13b).
- slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slatting — a slap; a sharp blow.
- sleeting — precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- slipknot — a knot that slips easily along the cord or line around which it is made.
- slotting — a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- snootily — snobbish.
- snottily — Vulgar. of or relating to snot.
- softling — a weakling or something which has a soft nature
- solation — to change from a gel to a sol.
- solution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- stalinsk — former name of Novokuznetsk.
- stalking — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- stallion — an uncastrated adult male horse, especially one used for breeding.
- staminal — of or relating to stamina or endurance.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steeling — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- stellion — an olive-green Mediterranean lizard with black star-shaped spots, belonging to the family Stellionidae
- sterling — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- stifling — suffocating; oppressively close: the stifling atmosphere of the cavern.
- stilbene — a colorless to slightly yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 4 H 1 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes (stilbene dyes)
- stilling — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- stillion — a stand for holding casks in a brewery or for drying pottery
- stillman — a man who is employed to operate a still
- stilting — one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- stingily — reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser.
- stirling — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
- stolypin — Petr Arkadievich. 1863–1911, Russian conservative statesman: prime minister (1906–11). He instituted agrarian reforms but was ruthless in suppressing rebellion: assassinated
- stooling — a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- stowlins — stealthily
- stunsail — studdingsail.
- subtilin — an antibiotic peptide drug derived from Bacillus subtilis, predominantly used to combat various pathogenic fungi as well as Gram-positive bacteria
- sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- sunlight — the light of the sun; sunshine.
- tailings — the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
- tailspin — spin (def 23).
- taliesin — flourished a.d. c550, Welsh bard.
- talisman — a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet or charm.
- tendrils — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tensible — capable of being stretched; tensile.