8-letter words containing a, n, c, o, l
- lactonic — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- lancelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- landlock — (transitive) To enclose or nearly enclose (a harbour, vessel, etc.) with land.
- latch on — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- lecanora — any of various crustaceous lichens of the genus Lecanora, some of which are eaten and some of which are used in dyeing
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- loanback — a facility offered by some life-assurance companies in which an individual can borrow from his pension fund
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- location — memory location
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- logician — a person who is skilled in logic.
- longcase — A longcase clock.
- lonicera — Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
- lycaonia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- man lock — an air lock serving as a decompression chamber for workers.
- mcdonald — David John, 1902–79, U.S. labor leader: president of the United Steelworkers of America 1952–65.
- moluccan — of or relating to a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 2 223 000 (1999 est). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- monachal — of or relating to monks or their life; monastic.
- monclova — a city in NE Mexico.
- montcalm — Louis Joseph [lwee zhaw-zef] /lwi ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1712–59, French general in Canada.
- mooncalf — a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
- neolocal — living or located away from both the husband's and the wife's relatives: a neolocal family.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- noetical — Alternative form of noetic.
- nonblack — (of a person) not black.
- nonclaim — Failure to make a legal claim.
- nonclass — Not a class, or not belonging to a class.
- nonfocal — Not focal.
- nonlocal — pertaining to or characterized by place or position in space; spatial.
- nonvocal — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- normalcy — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- novercal — of, like, or befitting a stepmother.
- octangle — octangular.
- octantal — relating to an octant
- oolachan — eulachon.
- oracling — Present participle of oracle.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- salpicon — a mixture of chopped fish, meat, or vegetables in a sauce, used as fillings for croquettes, pastries, etc
- scaldino — an Italian earthen brazier
- scallion — any onion that does not form a large bulb; green onion.
- scotland — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- slavonic — Slavonian.
- syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- tacloban — a seaport on NE Leyte, in the central Philippines.
- talionic — of or relating to the system or legal principle of talion