8-letter words containing e, s, r, o
- kromesky — a croquette consisting of a piece of bacon wrapped round minced meat or fish
- kurtoses — Plural form of kurtosis.
- laborers — Plural form of laborer.
- lacrosse — a game, originated by Indians of North America, in which two 10-member teams attempt to send a small ball into each other's netted goal, each player being equipped with a crosse or stick at the end of which is a netted pocket for catching, carrying, or throwing the ball.
- ladrones — a group of 15 small islands in the Pacific, E of the Philippines: divided into Guam, a possession of the U.S., and the North Marianas, formally under U.S. trusteeship. 453 sq. mi. (1127 sq. km).
- larksome — mischievous or fond of larking
- larousse — Pierre Athanase [pyer a-ta-nahz] /pyɛr a taˈnɑz/ (Show IPA), 1817–75, French grammarian, lexicographer, and encyclopedist.
- layovers — Plural form of layover.
- leghorns — Plural form of leghorn.
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- leotards — A close-fitting one-piece garment, made of a stretchy fabric, which covers a person's body from the shoulders to the top of the thighs and typically the arms, worn by dancers or people exercising indoors.
- levators — Plural form of levator.
- licensor — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- literose — affectedly literary
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- lobsters — Plural form of lobster.
- lodestar — a star that shows the way.
- loosener — Something that loosens.
- looters' — spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- lordless — having no lord.
- lordoses — Plural form of lordosis.
- lorestan — Luristan.
- lorimers — Plural form of lorimer.
- loungers — Plural form of lounger.
- low-rise — having a comparatively small number of floors, as a motel or townhouse, and usually no elevator.
- maestros — Plural form of maestro.
- marmoset — any of several small, squirrellike, South and Central American monkeys of the genera Callithrix, Leontocebus, etc., having soft fur and a long, nonprehensile tail: some species are endangered.
- masorete — one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- mayoress — a woman who is the chief executive official of a city, village, or town.
- memories — the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
- memorise — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- memorist — a person who has a remarkably retentive memory.
- menorahs — Plural form of menorah.
- mercosur — a trading block composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- merfolks — Plural form of merfolk.
- meronyms — Plural form of meronym.
- meshwork — meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- mesoderm — the middle germ layer of a metazoan embryo.
- mesomere — a blastomere of intermediate size between a micromere and a macromere.
- mesotron — (no longer in technical use) meson.
- messidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the tenth month of the year, extending from June 19 to July 18.
- messroom — a dining room aboard ship or at a naval base.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- misenrol — to enrol inaccurately or wrongly
- misnomer — A wrong or inaccurate name or designation.
- misorder — to put (items, events, etc) into the incorrect order
- misroute — Divert or direct to the wrong place or by the wrong route.
- miswrote — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- mobsters — Plural form of mobster.