5-letter words containing s, t, l
- spilt — a simple past tense and past participle of spill1 .
- splat — a sound made by splattering or slapping.
- split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- stael — Madame de (Baronne de Staël-Holstein) 1766–1817, French novelist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
- stahl — Georg Ernst [gey-ork ernst] /geɪˈɒrk ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1660–1734, German chemist and physician.
- stale — not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- stalk — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
- steal — to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
- steel — 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.
- stela — stele (defs 1–3).
- stele — an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- stell — a shelter for cattle or sheep built on moorland or hillsides
- 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.
- stilb — a unit of luminance, equal to one candle per square centimeter.
- stile — any of various upright members framing panels or the like, as in a system of paneling, a paneled door, window sash, or chest of drawers. Compare rail1 (def 8).
- still — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- stilt — 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.
- stola — a long, loose tunic or robe, with or without sleeves, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- stole — simple past tense of steal.
- stool — a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- stull — a timber prop.
- stulm — a shaft for draining a mine
- style — a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
- styli — a plural of stylus.
- swelt — to perish
- tails — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- tales — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
- talks — a conference, discussion, or negotiation
- talos — a man of brass made by Hephaestus for Minos as a guardian of Crete.
- talus — the uppermost bone of the proximal row of bones of the tarsus; anklebone.
- talys — Thomas, c1505–85, English organist and composer, especially of church music.
- teels — til.
- telos — the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
- tesol — teaching English to speakers of other languages. Compare ESOL.
- toles — enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- tools — Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
- tsl-1 — Task Sequencing Language. Language for specifying sequences of tasking events in Ada programs.
- tules — either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- tulsa — a city in NE Oklahoma: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- welts — a ridge or wale on the surface of the body, as from a blow of a stick or whip.
- wilts — to become limp and drooping, as a fading flower; wither.