8-letter words containing a, c, l, s
- descaler — a thing for removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- dialects — Plural form of dialect.
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- disclaim — to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown: disclaiming all participation.
- disclame — (obsolete) To disclaim; to expel.
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- ecclesia — an assembly, especially the popular assembly of ancient Athens.
- elastick — Obsolete form of elastic.
- elastics — Plural form of elastic.
- enclaves — Plural form of enclave.
- escalade — The scaling of fortified walls using ladders, as a form of military attack.
- escalate — Increase rapidly.
- escalier — a staircase
- escallop — A scallop shell as a charge.
- escalope — A thin slice of meat without any bone, typically a special cut of veal from the leg that is coated, fried, and served in a sauce.
- escarole — An endive of a variety with broad undivided leaves and a slightly bitter flavor, used in salads.
- eschalot — Archaic form of shallot.
- eschewal — The act of eschewing.
- escolars — Plural form of escolar.
- escorial — a village in central Spain, northwest of Madrid: site of an architectural complex containing a monastery, palace, and college, built by Philip II between 1563 and 1584
- escurial — Escorial
- especial — Better or greater than usual; special.
- eusocial — (biology) Of or pertaining to certain social animals' societies (such as those of ants) in which sterile individuals work for reproductive individuals.
- exclaims — Plural form of exclaim.
- exclaves — Plural form of exclave.
- faceless — without a face: a faceless apparition.
- faliscan — a member of an ancient people who inhabited southern Etruria.
- fascicle — a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
- fasciola — (anatomy) A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
- fasciole — one of the spine-bearing bands of tubercles found on spatangoid sea-urchins
- feluccas — Plural form of felucca.
- fiscally — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
- flatcars — Plural form of flatcar.
- flexcash — flexdollars.
- fly-cast — Angling. to fish by fly casting.
- foolscap — a type of inexpensive writing paper, especially legal-size, lined, yellow sheets, bound in tablet form.
- forslack — to neglect or be neglectful
- fractals — Plural form of fractal.
- gas coal — a soft coal suitable for the production of gas.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glacious — Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy.“Gla
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- glaucous — light bluish-green or greenish-blue.
- glooscap — (among the Micmac and other Native North American peoples) a traditional trickster hero
- glucosan — any of a number of polysaccharides that yield glucose upon hydrolysis.
- gracilis — a muscle in the inner side of the thigh, the action of which assists in drawing the legs inward and in bending the knee.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- halcyons — Plural form of halcyon.