9-letter words containing el
- sellotape — clear sticking tape
- semivowel — Phonetics. a speech sound of vowel quality used as a consonant, as (w) in wet or (y) in yet.
- senseless — destitute or deprived of sensation; unconscious.
- sequelize — to make a sequel to: to sequelize a hit movie.
- servilely — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- sex cells — a spermatozoon or an ovum; gamete.
- shadeless — the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
- shalelike — having the properties or appearance of shale
- shameless — lacking any sense of shame: immodest; audacious.
- shapeless — having no definite or regular shape or form: a shapeless mass of clay.
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- sheffield — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- shelburne — William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, William Petty Fizmaurice Lansdowne.
- sheldrake — any of several Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna, certain species of which have highly variegated plumage.
- shelf ice — ice forming part of or broken from an ice shelf.
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shelfroom — the space on a shelf
- shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
- shell out — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shellback — an old sailor.
- shellbark — the shagbark tree.
- shelleyan — Also, Shellian. of, relating to, or characteristic of Percy Bysshe Shelley or his works.
- shellfire — the firing of explosive shells or projectiles.
- shellfish — an aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans.
- shellwork — decorative work composed of seashells: an elaborate picture frame decorated with shellwork.
- sheltered — protected or shielded from storms, missiles, etc., by a wall, roof, barrier, or the like.
- shielding — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
- shineless — lacking shine or brightness
- shlimazel — an inept, bungling person who suffers from unremitting bad luck.
- shoreless — limitless; boundless.
- shoreline — the line where shore and water meet.
- shovelful — the amount held by a shovel.
- shoveling — an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
- sidelight — an item of incidental information.
- sideliner — a person who is on the sidelines and does not participate in an activity or situation.
- sidelines — a line at the side of something.
- sidewheel — either of a pair of paddle wheels on the sides of a vessel.
- sincelejo — a city in Sucre department, NW Colombia.
- sincerely — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- singspiel — a German opera, especially of the 18th century, using spoken dialogue and resembling ballad opera.
- sjaelland — Zealand.
- slakeless — impossible to slake
- slatelike — resembling slate
- slaveling — a person in a condition of servility or slavery.
- sleevelet — a fitted sleeve or cover worn on the forearm for warmth or to protect a shirt sleeve.
- smell out — dog: detect by sniffing
- smellable — to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning.
- smileless — to assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth.
- smokeless — emitting, producing, or having little or no smoke.
- smokelike — resembling smoke