9-letter words containing sal
- postnasal — located or occurring behind the nose or in the nasopharynx, as a flow of mucus; nasopharyngeal: a postnasal infection.
- psalmbook — a book containing psalms for liturgical or devotional use.
- psaltress — a woman who plays the psaltery
- redressal — the act of redressing
- rehearsal — a session of exercise, drill, or practice, usually private, in preparation for a public performance, ceremony, etc.: a play rehearsal; a wedding rehearsal.
- reperusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- resalable — able to be resold; suitable for resale.
- ressaldar — a middle-ranking officer in a cavalry regiment of the Indian army
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- salacious — lustful or lecherous.
- salad bar — an assortment of salad ingredients, condiments, and dressings displayed on a serving table or counter, as at a restaurant, so that one can choose and combine ingredients freely.
- salad oil — an oil used in salad dressing, especially olive oil or a vegetable oil, as from sesame, corn, or safflower.
- salamanca — a city in W Spain: university; Wellington's defeat of the French, 1812.
- salambria — a river in N Greece, in Thessaly, flowing E to the Gulf of Salonika. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- salangane — a bird of the genus Collocalia, which make edible nests
- salaryman — (in Japan) a white-collar businessman.
- salcantay — a mountain in the Andes in S central Peru: highest peak in the Cordillera Vilcabamba. 20,574 feet (6271 meters).
- saleratus — sodium bicarbonate used in cookery; baking soda.
- sales rep — sales representative.
- sales tax — a tax on receipts from sales, usually added to the selling price by the seller.
- salesgirl — a woman who sells goods, especially in a store; saleswoman.
- saleslady — a saleswoman.
- salesroom — a room in which goods are sold or displayed.
- saliaunce — an onslaught
- salic law — a code of laws of the Salian Franks and other Germanic tribes, especially a provision in this code excluding females from the inheritance of land.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- salicylic — of or derived from salicylic acid.
- saliently — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- salinized — to treat with salt or render saline.
- salisbury — Harrison, 1908–93, U.S. journalist and writer.
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- sallyport — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- salmonoid — resembling a salmon.
- salometer — salinometer.
- salpingo- — indicating the Fallopian tubes
- salt away — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- salt bath — a bath of molten salts in which steel can be immersed to soak to a uniform and accurately maintained temperature as part of the process of heat treatment. Different salts are used for different temperatures
- salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt
- salt cake — an impure form of sodium sulfate, especially as obtained by the interaction of sulfuric acid and common salt in the synthesis of hydrochloric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of glass, ceramic glazes, soaps, and sodium salts.
- salt dome — a domelike rock structure that is formed beneath the earth's surface by the upward movement of a mass of salt, may reach thousands of feet in vertical extent, and is more or less circular in plan: often associated with oil and gas pools.
- salt flat — an extensive level tract coated with salt deposits left by evaporation of rising ground water or a temporary body of surface water.
- salt junk — salted beef or pork.
- salt lake — a body of water having no outlet to the sea and containing in solution a high concentration of salts, especially sodium chloride.
- salt lick — a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
- salt mine — a mine from which salt is excavated.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- salt tree — athel tree.
- salt well — a well from which brine is obtained.