8-letter words containing a, n, k, l
- lackland — a person who has no land or territory
- lake van — a salt lake in E Turkey, at an altitude of 1650 m (5400 ft): fed by melting snow and glaciers. Area: 3737 sq km (1433 sq miles)
- lakeland — a city in central Florida.
- lambkins — Plural form of lambkin.
- lambskin — the skin of a lamb, especially when dressed with its wool, and used for clothing.
- landbank — An area of land held in reserve by a house-building firm.
- landlock — (transitive) To enclose or nearly enclose (a harbour, vessel, etc.) with land.
- landmark — a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location: The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
- landskip — landscape.
- laniakea — a huge supercluster of many thousands of galaxies: the Milky Way is included in one of its three component parts.
- lankness — The property of being lank.
- lap link — a chain link for joining two lengths of chain, having a split in one end so that it can be opened to receive other links and then closed again.
- larrikin — a street rowdy; hoodlum.
- lawnlike — Resembling or characteristic of a lawn.
- leakance — the reciprocal of the resistance of insulation.
- linkages — Plural form of linkage.
- linkback — (Internet) Any of various mechanisms for notifying the owner of a webpage when it is linked to from another document.
- linksman — a person who plays golf; golfer.
- linkspan — a hinged bridge on a quay, used to move vehicles on or off a vessel
- loanback — a facility offered by some life-assurance companies in which an individual can borrow from his pension fund
- longkang — (Singapore, Malaysia) drain.
- lubyanka — a prison and secret-police headquarters in central Moscow.
- lunkhead — a dull or stupid person; blockhead.
- malenkov — Georgi Maximilianovich [gyi-awr-gyee muh-ksyi-myi-lyah-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi mə ksyɪ myɪˈlyɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1902–88, Russian political leader: premier of the Soviet Union 1953–55.
- man lock — an air lock serving as a decompression chamber for workers.
- markland — An old Scots unit of measure equal to eight ouncelands.
- milk can — large metal container for milk
- millikan — Robert Andrews, 1868–1953, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1923.
- moonwalk — an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon.
- muckland — fertile farmland characterized by soil (muck soil) that contains a high percentage (between 20 percent and 50 percent) of organic matter.
- nastalik — a Persian cursive script
- necklace — a piece of jewelry consisting of a string of stones, beads, jewels, or the like, or a chain of gold, silver, or other metal, for wearing around the neck.
- new talk — ntalk
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- nonblack — (of a person) not black.
- novalike — Resembling a nova or some aspect of one.
- oak lawn — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- oil tank — any tank for containing or storing oil such as a very large oil storage container at a refinery; a large oil storage area on an oil tanker; or a smaller container for the storage of heating oil at a property
- outflank — to go or extend beyond the flank of (an opposing military unit); turn the flank of.
- parkland — a grassland region with isolated or grouped trees, usually in temperate regions.
- planking — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- plankton — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
- prankful — full of pranks or mischief, tending to play pranks
- rankless — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- rankling — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- rinkhals — ringhals.
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- sakhalin — an island of the Russian Federation in the Sea of Okhotsk, N of Japan: formerly (1905-45) divided between the Soviet Union and Japan. 29,100 sq. mi. (75,369 sq. km).