8-letter words containing e, i, l, a, n
- planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quinella — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor, in order to win, must select the first- and second-place finishers without specifying their order of finishing.
- quiniela — quinella.
- raveling — a tangle or complication.
- re-align — to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.
- regalian — of or relating to regalia or royalty
- regaling — to entertain lavishly or agreeably; delight.
- reginald — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “counsel and rule.”.
- regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
- relacing — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- relation — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- relaxing — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- relaying — re-lay.
- reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.
- rifleman — a soldier armed with a rifle.
- rijndael — Advanced Encryption Standard
- salering — an enclosed area for livestock at market
- salesian — a member of the Society of St. Francis de Sales, a congregation founded in Turin in 1845 and engaged chiefly in missionary and educational work.
- salience — the state or condition of being salient.
- saliency — salience.
- salinger — J(erome) D(avid) 1971–2010, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- salinize — to treat with salt or render saline.
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- sanglier — a closely woven fabric made of mohair or worsted, constructed in plain weave, and finished to simulate the coat of a boar.
- scenical — of or relating to natural scenery.
- sea lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sea-lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sealskin — the skin of a seal.
- seasnail — any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
- selenian — of the moon; lunar
- semolina — a granular, milled product of durum wheat, consisting almost entirely of endosperm particles, used chiefly in the making of pasta.
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shinleaf — a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
- signable — suitable for signing, as in being satisfactory, appropriate, or complete: a signable legislative bill.
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- silesian — a region in central Europe along both banks of the upper Oder River, mainly in SW Poland and the N Czech Republic: formerly divided between Germany (which had the largest portion), Poland, and Czechoslovakia; by provision of the Potsdam agreement 1945, the greater part of German Silesia came under Polish administration; rich deposits of coal, iron, and other minerals.
- siloxane — any of the class of compounds containing the structural unit R 2 SiO, where R is an organic group or hydrogen.
- singable — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- sinkable — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
- skiplane — an airplane equipped with skis to enable it to land on and take off from snow.
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- slovenia — a republic in SE Europe: formerly part of Yugoslavia. 7819 sq. mi. (20,250 sq. km). Capital: Ljubljana.