8-letter words containing t, a, i, l, s
- sibilate — to hiss.
- silastic — a flexible inert silicone rubber, used esp in prosthetic medicine
- silicate — 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 hat — a tall, cylindrical, black hat covered with silk plush, worn by men for formal dress. Compare beaver1 (def 4), opera hat, top hat.
- silktail — the waxwing
- silvatic — of or relating to the forest; sylvan
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- slaister — a sloppy mess
- 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.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- smaltite — a mineral, originally thought to have been a diarsenide of cobalt, CoAs 2 , but which is actually a skutterudite rich in cobalt.
- societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- sodalist — a member of a sodality.
- sodalite — a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate, Na 4 Al 3 Si 3 O 1 2 Cl, occurring massive and in crystals, usually blue in color and found in certain alkali-rich igneous rocks.
- sodality — fellowship; comradeship.
- solation — to change from a gel to a sol.
- solatium — something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
- solidate — a parcel of land whose value is equal to a solidus
- solitary — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- soterial — relating to salvation
- spitball — a small ball or lump of chewed paper used as a missile.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- stablish — establish.
- 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.
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starlisp — *LISP
- statical — pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
- staysail — any sail set on a stay, as a triangular sail between two masts.
- steadily — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- stillage — a low platform on which goods are stored in a warehouse or factory to keep them off the floor, to aid in handling, etc. Compare skid (def 3).
- stillman — a man who is employed to operate a still
- stilyaga — (formerly, in the Soviet Union) a person, usually young, who adopted the unconventional manner and dress of some Western youth groups, as rockers or punk-rock fans.
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- straitly — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- strobila — the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region. Compare scolex.
- stunsail — studdingsail.
- subtidal — of or relating to, inhabiting or existing in the region below the level of low tide, that is always underwater
- suitable — such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming.