8-letter words containing a, i, s, l, e
- banalise — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- baseline — The baseline of a tennis, badminton, or basketball court is one of the lines at each end of the court that mark the limits of play.
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- basileus — A title of the Byzantine emperor.
- bassline — (in jazz, rock, and pop music) the part played by the bass guitar
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- biasedly — in a biased manner
- bimensal — occurring every two months
- biserial — in two rows
- bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
- bistable — having two stable states
- bleakish — quite pale
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- caliches — Plural form of caliche.
- calicoes — Plural form of calico.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- camelish — similar to a camel
- camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
- chalices — Plural form of chalice.
- charlies — a word used in communications to represent the letter C.
- chasible — Alternative form of chasuble.
- ciliates — Plural form of ciliate.
- cis male — a person who was born male and whose gender identity is male.
- citadels — Plural form of citadel.
- clashier — Comparative form of clashy.
- classier — of high class, rank, or grade; stylish; admirably smart; elegant.
- claviers — Plural form of clavier.
- clematis — A clematis is a type of flowering shrub which can be grown to climb up walls or fences. There are many different varieties of clematis.
- climates — Plural form of climate.
- climaxes — Plural form of climax.
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.