5 letter words starting with sl

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  • SLABS
  • SLACK
  • SLADE
  • SLAES
  • SLAGS
  • SLAID
  • SLAIN
  • SLAKE
  • SLAMS
  • SLANE
  • SLANG
  • SLANK
  • SLANT
  • SLAPS
  • SLART
  • SLASH
  • SLATE
  • SLATS
  • SLATY
  • SLAVE
  • SLAWS
  • SLAYS
  • SLEBS
  • SLEDS
  • SLEEK
  • SLEEP
  • SLEER
  • SLEET
  • SLEPT
  • SLEWS
  • SLEYS
  • SLICE
  • SLICK
  • SLIDE
  • SLIER
  • SLILY
  • SLIME
  • SLIMS
  • SLIMY
  • SLING
  • SLINK
  • SLIPE
  • SLIPS
  • SLIPT
  • SLISH
  • SLITS
  • SLIVE
  • SLOAN
  • SLOBS
  • SLOES
  • SLOGS
  • SLOID
  • SLOJD
  • SLOKA
  • SLOMO
  • SLOOM
  • SLOOP
  • SLOOT
  • SLOPE
  • SLOPS
  • SLOPY
  • SLORM
  • SLOSH
  • SLOTH
  • SLOTS
  • SLOVE
  • SLOWS
  • SLOYD
  • SLUBB
  • SLUBS
  • SLUED
  • SLUES
  • SLUFF
  • SLUGS
  • SLUIT
  • SLUMP
  • SLUMS
  • SLUNG
  • SLUNK
  • SLURB
  • SLURP
  • SLURS
  • SLUSE
  • SLUSH
  • SLUTS
  • SLYER
  • SLYLY
  • SLYPE

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Definition of slats

slats (noun)

  1. A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal.
  2. (aeronautical) A movable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight.
  3. A ski.
  4. A thin piece of stone; a slate.

slats (verb)

  1. To construct or provide with slats.
  2. To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
  3. To split; to crack.
  4. To set on; to incite.

Definition of slice

slice (noun)

  1. That which is thin and broad.
  2. A thin, broad piece cut off.
  3. An amount of anything.
  4. A piece of pizza.
  5. A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
  6. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
  7. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
  8. A salver, platter, or tray.
  9. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
  10. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  11. A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
  12. A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
  13. Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  14. A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
  15. A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
  16. A contiguous portion of an array.

slice (verb)

  1. To cut into slices.
  2. To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
  3. To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
  4. To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
  5. To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
  6. To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
  7. To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
  8. To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

slice (adjective)

  1. Having the properties of a slice knot.

Definition of slugs

slugs (noun)

  1. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
  2. A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
  3. A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
  4. A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
  5. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
  6. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
  7. A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
  8. (rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
  9. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
  10. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
  11. An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors but lacks a prime mover.
  12. (television editing) A black screen.
  13. A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
  14. A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
  15. (District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
  16. The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
  17. A hindrance, an obstruction.
  18. A ship that sails slowly.

slugs (verb)

  1. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
  2. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
  3. (of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
  4. To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
  5. To load with a slug or slugs.
  6. To make sluggish.

slugs (noun)

  1. A hard blow, usually with the fist.

slugs (verb)

  1. To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

Definition of sluit

sluit (noun)

  1. A ditch.
  2. An irrigation channel.