5 Letter Words That Start With SL

sleep

Verb : (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.

Verb : (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).

Verb : (transitive) To accommodate in beds.

sleek

Adjective : Having an even, smooth surface; smooth

Adjective : Glossy.

Adjective : Not rough or harsh.

slide

Verb : (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.

Verb : (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.

Verb : (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.

slate

Noun : (uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

Noun : (uncountable) The bluish-grey colour of most slate.

Noun : (countable) A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools.

sling

Verb : To throw with a circular or arcing motion.

Verb : To throw with a sling.

Verb : (nautical) To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.

slack

Noun : (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.

Noun : (countable) A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains.

Noun : (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.

sloth

Noun : (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.

Noun : (countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.

Noun : (rare) A collective term for a group of bears.

slang

Noun : Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.

Noun : Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.

Noun : The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to conceal one's meaning from outsiders; cant.

slash

Noun : A slashing action or motion

Noun : A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.

Noun : (cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.

slope

Noun : An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

Noun : The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

Noun : (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.

sleet

Noun : (chiefly US) Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.

Noun : (chiefly UK, Ireland, New England) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

Noun : (rare) A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.

slick

Adjective : Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.

Adjective : Appearing expensive or sophisticated.

Adjective : Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.

slink

Verb : (intransitive) To sneak about furtively.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to an animal prematurely.

Noun : (countable) A furtive sneaking motion.

slump

Verb : (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.

Verb : (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.

Verb : (intransitive) To slouch or droop.

slant

Noun : A slope; an incline, inclination.

Noun : A sloped surface or line.

Noun : (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.

slave

Noun : A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

Noun : (figuratively) A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.

Noun : (figuratively) An abject person.

slice

Noun : That which is thin and broad.

Noun : A thin, broad piece cut off.

Noun : (colloquial) An amount of anything.

slime

Noun : Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

Noun : Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.

Noun : Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”)

slazy

Adjective : (archaic) sleazy; of inferior quality

slush

Noun : Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.

Noun : Liquid mud or mire.

Noun : Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.

slake

Verb : (transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).

Verb : (transitive) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.

Verb : (intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.

sloop

Noun : (nautical) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.

Noun : (military) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.

Noun : (military) A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.

slimy

Adjective : Of or pertaining to slime

Adjective : resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, or abounding in slime

Adjective : (slang, figuratively) Friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; two-faced; sneaky; slick; smarmy.

slurp

Verb : (transitive) To eat or drink noisily.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a loud sucking noise.

Noun : A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.

slain

Noun : (with "the") Those who have been killed.

slosh

Verb : (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

Verb : (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.

slade

Noun : (now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.

Noun : (dialectal) A hillside.

Noun : A spade for digging peat.

sleer

Verb : (obsolete) To mock or jeer.

sloan

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A unisex given name

Noun : A female given name

sloam

Noun : (mining) A layer of earth between coal seams.

slung

Verb : To throw with a circular or arcing motion.

Verb : To throw with a sling.

Verb : (nautical) To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.

sloom

Noun : A gentle sleep; slumber.

Verb : (Scotland) To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.

Verb : To soften or rot with damp. (of plants or soil)

slept

Verb : (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.

Verb : (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).

Verb : (transitive) To accommodate in beds.

slunk

Noun : An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.

sluff

Noun : An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.

Verb : ignore, shrug (off)

Verb : to avoid working

slyly

Verb : In a sly manner, cunningly.

slips

Noun : (cricket) the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively

sligh

Noun : A surname.

Adjective : Obsolete form of sly. [Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.]

slops

Noun : (obsolete) Loose trousers.

Noun : (nautical, historical) Sailors’ breeches ending just below the knees or above the ankles, worn mainly in XVIII century.

Noun : (nautical, dated) Clothing and bedding issued to sailors.

slots

Noun : A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.

Noun : A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.

Noun : (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.

slive

Verb : (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cut; split; separate.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.

Noun : (dialectal) A slice or sliver; slip, chip.

slent

Noun : Obsolete form of slant. [A slope; an incline, inclination.]

Verb : Obsolete form of slant. [(transitive, intransitive) To lean, tilt or incline.]

slipt

slype

Noun : (architecture) A covered passageway, especially one connecting the transept of a cathedral or monastery to the chapter house.

slane

Noun : (Ireland) A one-eared spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft.

Noun : A surname.

slipe

Noun : A sledge runner on which a skip is dragged in a mine.

sligo

Noun : A county of Ireland.

Noun : A town in County Sligo, Ireland.

slaty

Adjective : Resembling the mineral slate.

slugs

Noun : (mining) half-roasted ore

slank

Noun : an Indonesian rock band.

sloat

Noun : A narrow piece of timber that holds together large pieces; a slat.

Noun : A surname.

slats

Noun : A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.

Noun : (aviation) A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.

Noun : (skiing, slang) A ski.

slish

Verb : (dated, Britain) To cut, slit or slash.

slews

Noun : a large number or amoun

slint

Noun : an American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, formed in 1986.

slaie

Noun : A weaver's reed; a sley.

sloyd

Noun : A Scandinavian system of handicraft-based education that emphasizes the importance of practical, hands-on work to develop cognitive and problem-solving skills. In particular, it is often associated with woodworking and carving, but can include other crafts as well.

Noun : A knife for carving.

sludy

slart

slier

Adjective : Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.

Adjective : (having a positive connotation) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice

Adjective : Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle

slone

Noun : A surname.

slurs

Noun : An insult or slight.

Noun : An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).

Noun : A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.

slams

Verb : (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.

Verb : (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.

slums

Noun : (countable, derogatory) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

Noun : (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

Verb : (intransitive) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.

sluss

slued

Adjective : Alternative form of slewed (“drunk, tipsy”) [(informal) Somewhat drunk; tipsy.]

sloke

Noun : (archaic) laver (type of seaweed)

slues

Verb : (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.

Verb : (transitive) To turn something sharply.

Verb : (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.

slich

Noun : Alternative form of schlich [The finer portion of crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.]

slobs

Noun : (informal, derogatory) A lazy and slovenly or obese person.

Verb : To move slowly or cumbersomely.

Verb : To act like a slob, in a lazy or slovenly way.

sloss

slurb

Noun : A homogeneous sprawl of urban and suburban developments.

slowh

slyer

Adjective : Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.

Adjective : (having a positive connotation) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice

Adjective : Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle

slags

Noun : Waste material from a mine.

Noun : Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.

Noun : Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.

slabs

Noun : Initialism of student loan asset-backed securities.

slows

Noun : (medicine, dated) milk sickness

sluit

Noun : (South Africa) Alternative spelling of sloot [(South Africa) A ditch.]

slays

Noun : (with "the") Those who have been killed.

slaps

Noun : A two-player reaction game in which opponents slap each other's hands.

sleds

Noun : A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)

Noun : (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger)

Noun : (slang) A snowmobile.

slily

Verb : Alternative spelling of slyly [In a sly manner, cunningly.]

sleid

Verb : To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.

slava

Noun : (Eastern Orthodoxy) The custom of honoring a family patron saint, celebrated chiefly by the Serbs, but also by some Macedonians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians and Gorani.

sloid

Noun : Alternative form of sloyd [A Scandinavian system of handicraft-based education that emphasizes the importance of practical, hands-on work to develop cognitive and problem-solving skills. In particular, it is often associated with woodworking and carving, but can include other crafts as well.]

slock

Noun : (Scotland, Northern England) A draught; a gulp.

Verb : (Scotland, Northern England) To swallow, gulp.

Verb : (transitive, West Country, slang, obsolete) To poach (a servant) from another household.

slopy

Adjective : Characterised by a slope or slopes; sloping

slogs

Noun : (countable, uncountable, chiefly Britain, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.

Noun : (countable, uncountable, chiefly Britain, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.

Noun : (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.

sloot

Noun : (South Africa) A ditch.

Noun : (South Africa, archaic) An irrigation channel.

slerp

Verb : (mathematics, computing) To interpolate by using SLERP.

Noun : Alternative form of SLERP

Verb : Alternative form of SLERP [(mathematics, computing) To interpolate by using SLERP.]

sloes

Noun : The small, astringent, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).

Noun : The tree Prunus spinosa.

Noun : Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.

slatt

Noun : A stone slab used as a veneer for coarse masonry.

slits

Noun : A narrow cut or opening; a slot.

Noun : (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.

Noun : (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.

slojd

Noun : Alternative spelling of slöjd [A system of handicraft-based education started in Finland in 1865 and later adopted worldwide.]

slims

Adjective : Slender, thin.

Adjective : (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.

Adjective : (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.

slorc

Noun : Initialism of State Law and Order Restoration Council: the junta which overthrew the democratically elected government of Burma (Myanmar) in 1988.

slavs

Noun : the largest European ethnolinguistic group.

Noun : The Slavic ethnonym (and autonym), Slavs, is reconstructed in Proto-Slavic as *Slověninъ, plural Slověně.

slask

Noun : a region of central europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore; annexed by prussia in 1742 but now largely in polan

sleat

Noun : A peninsula in the south of the Isle of Skye, Highland council area, Scotland.

slark

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