8-letter words containing e, u, l, o
- hourlies — Plural form of hourly.
- housefly — a medium-sized, gray-striped fly, Musca domestica, common around human habitations in nearly all parts of the world.
- houseful — as many as a house will accommodate: a houseful of weekend guests.
- humicole — any plant that thrives on humus
- involute — intricate; complex.
- isologue — one of two or more isologous compounds.
- jaloused — Simple past tense and past participle of jalouse.
- jalousie — a blind or shutter made with horizontal slats that can be adjusted to admit light and air but exclude rain and the rays of the sun.
- jealouse — to suspect
- jealousy — jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
- jelutong — a tree, Dyera costulata, of the Malay Peninsula, from which a resinous latex is obtained.
- jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
- kabeljou — a large marine sciaenid fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus, that is an important food fish of South African waters
- kuleshov — Lev (Vladimirovich) [lef vlad-uh-meer-uh-vich;; Russian lyef vluh-dyee-myi-ruh-vyich] /lɛf ˌvlæd əˈmɪər ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɛf vlʌˈdyi myɪ rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1970, Soviet film director.
- kullervo — (in the Kalevala) a slave who, after a series of tragic misadventures, commits suicide.
- la hogue — La [la] /la/ (Show IPA), La Hogue.
- laboured — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- labourer — Standard spelling of laborer.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- larouche — Lyndon H., Jr. born 1922, U.S. economist and politician.
- larousse — Pierre Athanase [pyer a-ta-nahz] /pyɛr a taˈnɑz/ (Show IPA), 1817–75, French grammarian, lexicographer, and encyclopedist.
- left out — omitted, forgotten
- lemuroid — lemurlike; of the lemur kind.
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- leucosis — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- leukomas — Plural form of leukoma.
- leukosis — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- leukotic — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- levulose — fructose.
- libelous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
- lifebuoy — A life preserver, especially one in the shape of a ring.
- ligneous — of the nature of or resembling wood; woody.
- line out — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- line-out — a procedure for putting an out-of-bounds ball back in play, whereby a player outside the touchline tosses the ball high and between two lines of opposing forwards lined up perpendicular to the touchline.
- lineouts — Plural form of lineout.
- linoleum — a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.
- liquored — Simple past tense and past participle of liquor.
- live out — residing away from the place of one's employment: a live-out cook.
- live-out — residing away from the place of one's employment: a live-out cook.
- lobulate — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- loculate — having one or more locules.
- lodicule — one of the specialized scales at the base of the ovary of certain grass flowers.
- logjuice — poor quality port wine
- longueur — a long and boring passage in a literary work, drama, musical composition, or the like: The longueurs in this book make it almost unreadable.
- lose out — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
- loudened — Simple past tense and past participle of louden.
- loudness — (of sound) strongly audible; having exceptional volume or intensity: loud talking; loud thunder; loud whispers.