8-letter words containing a, d, l, e, s
- sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- startled — to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
- statedly — fixed or settled: a stated price.
- steadily — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- stendhal — (Marie Henri Beyle) 1783–1842, French novelist and critic.
- straddle — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- swaddler — a blanket in which to swaddle a baby
- tasseled — a pendent ornament consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc.
- teasdale — Sara, 1884–1933, U.S. poet.
- toadless — having no toads
- unhalsed — not hailed or greeted
- unlapsed — no longer committed to or following the tenets of a particular belief, obligation, position, etc.: a lapsed Catholic.
- unleased — (of a shop, office, property, etc) not leased
- unsaddle — to take the saddle from.
- unsailed — not sailed
- unsalted — seasoned, cured, or otherwise treated with salt.
- unscaled — noting armor having imbricated metal plates sewn to a flexible backing.
- unsealed — not sealed; not stamped or marked with a seal: unsealed cargo.
- unslaked — to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
- volstead — Andrew Joseph, 1860–1946, U.S. legislator.
- wallsend — a city in Tyne and Wear, NE England, near the mouth of the Tyne River.
- weaseled — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of weasel.
- westland — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- wetlands — Plural form of wetland An area or region that is characteristically saturated; a marsh.
- wrassled — Simple past tense and past participle of wrassle.