8-letter words containing a, l, e, s, n
- leanings — Plural form of leaning.
- leanness — (of persons or animals) without much flesh or fat; not plump or fat; thin: lean cattle.
- learners — Plural form of learner.
- leaseman — a person who leases land and obtains the rights to its use, especially oil-drilling rights.
- leasings — Plural form of leasing.
- leavings — something that is left; residue.
- lebanese — of or relating to Lebanon or its natives or inhabitants.
- lens cap — a small lid or cover for a camera lens which protects it when the camera is not in use
- leonidas — died 480 b.c, Greek hero: king of Sparta 489?–480.
- lesbians — Plural form of lesbian.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lineages — Plural form of lineage.
- linesman — Sports. an official, as in tennis and soccer, who assists the referee. Football. an official who marks the distances gained and lost in the progress of play and otherwise assists the referee and field judge. Ice Hockey. either of two officials who assist the referee by watching for icing, offside, and substitution violations and fouls and by conducting face-offs.
- linkages — Plural form of linkage.
- linnaeus — Carolus [kar-uh-luh s] /ˈkær ə ləs/ (Show IPA), (Carl von Linné) 1707–78, Swedish botanist.
- litanies — Plural form of litany.
- lodesman — a person who steers a ship
- longcase — A longcase clock.
- lorestan — Luristan.
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- lysander — died 395 b.c, Spartan naval commander and statesman.
- maleness — a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.
- mamelons — Plural form of mamelon.
- manacles — Plural form of manacle.
- mandrels — Plural form of mandrel.
- maneless — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- manholes — Plural form of manhole.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- manliest — having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength or bravery.
- marlines — Plural form of marline.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- melanise — Alt form melanize.
- melanism — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesnalty — the estate of a mesne lord.
- milanese — a native or inhabitant of Milan, Italy.
- milesian — a native of Miletus.
- minerals — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- mislearn — To learn wrongly.
- nacelles — Plural form of nacelle.
- nail set — a short rod of steel used to drive a nail below or flush with a surface.
- nainsell — own self
- nameless — having no name.