8-letter words containing t, i, l, e, s
- slithery — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- slitless — without an opening or slit, esp. in spectroscopy, having no slit for admitting light
- slitlike — to cut apart or open along a line; make a long cut, fissure, or opening in.
- sluttier — of, resembling, or characteristic of a slut: slutty behavior.
- 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.
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- 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.
- solidate — a parcel of land whose value is equal to a solidus
- solitude — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- solstice — Astronomy. either of the two times a year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator: about June 21, when the sun reaches its northernmost point on the celestial sphere, or about December 22, when it reaches its southernmost point. Compare summer solstice, winter solstice. either of the two points in the ecliptic farthest from the equator.
- solutive — a solvent or laxative
- soterial — relating to salvation
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- 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.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- steadily — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steelier — consisting or made of steel.
- 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.
- stellify — to change or be changed into a star
- stellion — an olive-green Mediterranean lizard with black star-shaped spots, belonging to the family Stellionidae
- stellite — any of various alloys containing cobalt, chromium, carbon, tungsten, and molybdenum: characteristically very hard and wear-resistant, they are used as castings or hard surface-coatings
- steplike — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterling — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- stibbler — a preacher who is awaiting a permanent ministerial position
- stickler — a person who insists on something unyieldingly (usually followed by for): a stickler for ceremony.
- stickley — Gustav [guhs-tahv,, goo s-tahf] /ˈgʌs tɑv,, ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1858–1942, U.S. furniture designer, architect, and leader of the Arts and Craft Movement in America.
- stievely — in a firm way
- 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)
- stilbite — a white-to-brown or red zeolite mineral, a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum, occurring in sheaflike aggregates of crystals and in radiated masses.
- stiletto — a short dagger with a blade that is thick in proportion to its width.
- 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).
- stilwell — Joseph W ("Vinegar Joe") 1883–1946, U.S. general.
- stippled — A surface that is stippled is covered with tiny spots.
- stipules — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stirless — lacking movement, not stirring
- strelitz — a Russian soldier armed with firearms in the 16th and 17th centuries
- strickle — a straightedge used for sweeping off heaped-up grain to the level of the rim of a measure.
- strobile — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- stylised — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- stylized — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.