5-letter words containing l, a, s
- segal — George, 1924–2000, U.S. sculptor.
- selah — an expression occurring frequently in the Psalms, thought to be a liturgical or musical direction, probably a direction by the leader to raise the voice or perhaps an indication of a pause.
- sella — Zillah.
- selma — a city in central Alabama, on the Alabama River.
- selva — a tropical rain forest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.
- sepal — one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- seral — of or relating to a sere.
- setal — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- shale — a rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay or argillaceous material.
- shall — used to make a suggestion
- shalt — 2nd person singular of shall.
- shaly — of, like, or containing shale
- shaul — a wooden scoop made for winnowing corn
- shawl — a square, triangular, or oblong piece of wool or other material worn, especially by women, about the shoulders, or the head and shoulders, in place of a coat or hat outdoors, and indoors as protection against chill or dampness.
- sheal — a shell or pod
- shoal — any large number of persons or things.
- shola — a high-altitude evergreen forest in southern India
- shula — Donald Francis ("Don") born 1930, U.S. football coach.
- sigla — (robotics) SIGma LAnguage. A language for industrial robots from Olivetti.
- silas — a male given name.
- silva — the forest trees of a particular area.
- simla — a city in and the capital of Himachal Pradesh, in N India.
- sinal — of, relating to, or involving a sinus.
- sisal — Also called sisal hemp. a fiber yielded by an agave, Agave sisalana, of Yucatán, used for making rope, rugs, etc.
- skail — a scattering or dispersal
- skald — one of the ancient Scandinavian poets.
- skoal — a toast.
- slack — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slade — a sledge
- slain — past participle of slay.
- slake — to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
- slane — a spade for cutting turf
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- slank — simple past tense of slink.
- slant — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slapp — Also called SLAPP suit. a civil lawsuit brought as an intimidation measure against an activist.
- slart — to spill (something)
- slash — to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
- slask — Polish name of Silesia.
- slate — a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- slaty — consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to slate.
- slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- sloan — John, 1871–1951, U.S. painter.
- sloka — a couplet or distich of Sanskrit verse, especially one with each line containing 16 syllables.
- smail — snail mail.
- small — of limited size; of comparatively restricted dimensions; not big; little: a small box.
- smalt — a coloring agent made of blue glass produced by fusing silica, potassium carbonate, and cobalt oxide, used in powdered form to add color to vitreous materials.
- snail — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
- snarl — to become tangled; get into a tangle.
- solan — a gannet.