8-letter words containing a, d, l
- lead off — most important; principal; leading; first: lead editorial; lead elephant; lead designer.
- lead-off — leading off or beginning: the lead-off item on the agenda.
- leadable — Capable of being led.
- leadened — inertly heavy like lead; hard to lift or move: a leaden weight; leaden feet.
- leadenly — In a leaden manner.
- leadfoot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- leadings — Plural form of leading.
- leadless — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
- leadline — A leash or strap for leading an animal.
- leadsman — a sailor who sounds with a lead line.
- leadsmen — Plural form of leadsman.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leaf bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- leafbird — any of several greenish, passerine birds of the genus Chloropsis, of Asia, related to the bulbuls, and often kept as pets.
- leap day — February 29: the extra day added to the Gregorian calendar in leap year.
- leavened — Simple past tense and past participle of leaven.
- leeboard — either of two broad, flat objects attached to the sides of a sailing ship amidships, the one on the lee side being lowered into the water to prevent the ship from making leeway.
- leewards — towards the lee side
- lefthand — Alternative form of left-hand.
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lemonade — a beverage consisting of lemon juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- lendable — reserved or at hand for purposes of lending: lendable stock; lendable money.
- lentando — becoming slower.
- leonidas — died 480 b.c, Greek hero: king of Sparta 489?–480.
- leopardi — Count Giacomo [jah-kuh-moh;; Italian jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kəˌmoʊ;; Italian ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1798–1837, Italian poet.
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- leotards — A close-fitting one-piece garment, made of a stretchy fabric, which covers a person's body from the shoulders to the top of the thighs and typically the arms, worn by dancers or people exercising indoors.
- levanted — Simple past tense and past participle of levant.
- levodopa — a synthetic substance, C 9 H 11 NO 4 , that is converted in the brain to dopamine: used chiefly in the treatment of parkinsonism.
- liaodong — a peninsula in NE China, extending S into the Yellow Sea.
- librated — Simple past tense and past participle of librate.
- lie-abed — a person who remains in bed until a relatively late hour; late riser.
- like mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- lily pad — the large, floating leaf of a water lily.
- limavady — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 33 571 (2003 est). Area: 586 sq km (226 sq miles)
- limnaeid — any snail of the family Limnaeidae
- lindwall — Ray(mond Russell). 1921–96, Australian cricketer. A fast bowler, he played for Australia 61 times between 1946 and 1958
- lineated — marked with lines, especially parallel lengthwise lines; striped.
- lionhead — a small breed of rabbit with long fur around the face
- lip-read — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lipoidal — resembling fat; fatty
- liquated — Simple past tense and past participle of liquate.
- llandaff — a town in SE Wales, now a suburb of Cardiff; the oldest bishopric in Wales (6th century)
- loadable — Capable of being loaded.
- loadings — Plural form of loading.
- loadstar — a star that shows the way.
- loanword — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
- lodesman — a person who steers a ship
- lodestar — a star that shows the way.