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9-letter words containing el

  • scaleless — (of a fish or reptile) lacking scales
  • scalelike — Zoology. one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins. one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
  • scapeless — lacking a scape
  • scelerate — a villain, or extremely wicked person; a criminal
  • scheelite — calcium tungstate, CaWO 4 , usually occurring in tetragonal crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
  • schelling — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von [free-drikh vil-helm yoh-zef fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈyoʊ zɛf fən/ (Show IPA), 1775–1854, German philosopher.
  • schlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
  • schmeling — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1905–2005, German boxer: world heavyweight champion 1930–32.
  • schnitzel — a cutlet, especially of veal.
  • schnorkel — (formerly) snorkel (def 1).
  • schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
  • scopeloid — a member of a family of deep-sea fish with luminous spots
  • scoreless — the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
  • scoreline — sports: intermediate or final score
  • scoundrel — an unprincipled, dishonorable person; villain.
  • scutellum — Botany. the shieldlike cotyledon of certain monocots.
  • sea level — the horizontal plane or level corresponding to the surface of the sea at mean level between high and low tide.
  • seat belt — a belt or strap in an automobile, airplane, etc., fastened around or sometimes diagonally across the midsection to keep the person safely secured, as during a sudden stop.
  • sedgeland — land covered with sedge
  • selachian — belonging to the Selachii, a group of fishes comprising the sharks, skates, and rays.
  • seldshown — seldom shown
  • selecting — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
  • selective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
  • selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
  • selenious — containing tetravalent or bivalent selenium.
  • selenitic — of or relating to selenite
  • selenosis — a poisoned condition caused by selenium, occurring esp in livestock as a result of the natural presence of selenium in plants and soil
  • self-bias — voltage developed on an electrode in a vacuum tube circuit as a result of current flowing through a resistor in a lead to the cathode or to a grid.
  • self-care — care of the self without medical or other professional consultation.
  • self-feed — to provide a supply of food to (animals) so as to allow them to eat as much and as often as they want. Compare hand-feed (def 1).
  • self-harm — injury inflicted deliberately on yourself
  • self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
  • self-help — the act of providing for or helping or the ability to provide for or help oneself without assistance from others.
  • self-love — the instinct by which one's actions are directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for one's own advantage.
  • self-made — having succeeded in life unaided: He is a self-made man.
  • self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
  • self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
  • self-pity — pity for oneself, especially a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties, hardships, etc.: We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can.
  • self-rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
  • self-same — You use self-same when you want to emphasize that the person or thing mentioned is exactly the same as the one mentioned previously.
  • self-sown — sown by itself, or without human or animal agency, as of a plant grown from seeds dropped from another plant.
  • self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
  • self-test — a test that can be administered to oneself.
  • self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • self-will — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
  • selfishly — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
  • selfridge — Harry Gordon, 1857?–1947, British retail merchant, born in the U.S.
  • selfwards — in the direction of oneself
  • sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
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