7-letter words containing s, u, l, i
- piously — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes
- publish — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- pulaski — a double-edged hand tool having an ax blade on one side and a pickax or wide chisel on the opposite side, used especially in clearing land and removing tree stumps.
- pulsing — the regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, especially as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
- pulsion — the act of driving forward
- pursily — in a pursy manner
- puslike — a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- quilmes — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- railbus — a bus-like vehicle for use on railway lines
- riskful — risky
- rivulus — any of several killifishes of the genus Rivulus, native to small streams of tropical America, often kept in aquariums.
- salique — Salic.
- saucily — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- scullin — James Henry, 1876–1953, Australian statesman: prime minister 1929–31.
- sculpin — any small, freshwater fish of the genus Cottus, of the family Cottidae, having a large head with one or more spines on each side; bullhead.
- scurril — vulgar or indecent
- shilluk — a member of a Nilotic people of Sudan.
- shipful — the amount a ship can carry or hold
- sighful — mournful; sorrowful: a sighful ballad.
- silenus — a forest spirit, sometimes referred to as the oldest of the satyrs and the foster father, teacher, and companion of Dionysus: often represented as a bearded old man.
- siliqua — a silver coin of the later Roman Empire, the 24th part of a solidus, first issued by Constantine.
- silique — the long two-valved seed vessel or pod of plants belonging to the mustard family.
- silt up — If a river or lake silts up or something silts it up, it becomes blocked with silt.
- silures — a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, living chiefly in SE Wales, who fiercely resisted Roman invaders in the 1st century ad.
- silurid — any of numerous Old World freshwater fishes of the family Siluridae, comprising the catfishes.
- simular — a person or thing that simulates; pretender.
- singult — a sob
- skilful — having or exercising skill: a skillful juggler.
- skinful — the amount that a skin container can hold.
- slip up — an act or instance of slipping.
- slip-up — a mistake, blunder, or oversight: Several slip-ups caused a delay in the delivery of the books.
- slipout — an instance of slipping out
- sloughi — a smooth-haired hound originating in Morocco
- slumism — the prevalence or increase of urban slums and blighted areas.
- soilure — a stain.
- solidum — a part of a pedestal
- solidus — a gold coin of ancient Rome, introduced by Constantine and continued in the Byzantine Empire; bezant.
- souslik — suslik.
- spicula — a spicule.
- spicule — a small or minute, slender, sharp-pointed body or part; a small, needlelike crystal, process, or the like.
- spinule — a small spine.
- spirula — any cephalopod of the genus Spirula, having a flat, spiral shell that is partly inside and partly outside the posterior part of the body.
- spulyie — to plunder
- squalid — foul and repulsive, as from lack of care or cleanliness; neglected and filthy.
- squilla — mantis shrimp.
- stimuli — something that incites to action or exertion or quickens action, feeling, thought, etc.: The approval of others is a potent stimulus.
- stipule — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- subfile — a file within another file
- sublime — elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.