8-letter words containing sl
- slopping — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slopshop — a store at which cheap, ready-made clothing may be purchased.
- slopwork — the manufacture of cheap clothing.
- sloshing — to splash or move through water, mud, or slush.
- slot car — a miniature, electrically-operated toy racing car that runs on a slotted track and is controlled by an operator with a handheld rheostat.
- slot man — copyeditor (def 3).
- slotback — an offensive back who lines up about one yard behind the gap in the line between a tackle and an end stationed a distance outside of the tackle.
- slothful — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- slotting — a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- slouched — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- sloucher — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- sloughed — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- slovakia — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- sloven's — a person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness in dress, appearance, etc.
- slovenia — a republic in SE Europe: formerly part of Yugoslavia. 7819 sq. mi. (20,250 sq. km). Capital: Ljubljana.
- slovenly — untidy or unclean in appearance or habits.
- slovenry — slovenliness
- slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
- slowdown — a slowing down or delay in progress, action, etc.
- slowness — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- slowpoke — a person who makes slow progress.
- slowworm — blindworm (def 2).
- sludging — intravascular slowing or clumping of red blood cells.
- sluffing — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- slugfest — a baseball game in which both teams make many runs and extra-base hits.
- sluggard — a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.
- slugging — a hard blow or hit, especially with a fist or baseball bat.
- sluggish — indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
- sluicing — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- slumbery — slumberous.
- slumlord — a landlord who owns slum buildings, especially one who fails to maintain or improve the buildings and charges tenants exorbitant rents.
- slumming — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slummock — to move heavily and awkwardly
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- slurried — a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.
- slurring — to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
- slushily — in a slushy manner
- sluttery — the state of being a slut
- sluttier — of, resembling, or characteristic of a slut: slutty behavior.
- sluttish — of, resembling, or characteristic of a slut: slutty behavior.
- sly grog — bootleg liquor.
- sly-grog — bootleg liquor.
- slyboots — an engagingly sly or mischievous person.
- snowslip — a body of snow that slips down a mountain; an avalanche
- sudsless — without suds, not producing suds
- tussling — to struggle or fight roughly or vigorously; wrestle; scuffle.
- unslaked — to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
- unsliced — not sliced
- unsluice — to provide an opening for (something)