8-letter words containing i, n, l, s
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blessing — A blessing is something good that you are grateful for.
- blinders — Blinders are two pieces of leather that are placed at the side of a horse's eyes so that it can only see straight ahead.
- blinkers — If you describe someone as wearing blinkers, you think that they have a narrow point of view and are not taking other people's opinions into account.
- blondish — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blousing — a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- blushing — to redden, as from embarrassment or shame: He blushed when they called him a conquering hero.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- bonspiel — a curling match
- brasilin — brazilin
- brisling — another name for a sprat, esp a Norwegian sprat seasoned, smoked, and canned in oil
- bus line — the route of a bus or buses.
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- cannolis — Plural form of cannoli.
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- carlings — Plural form of carling.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- ceilings — Plural form of ceiling.
- chinless — having a receding chin
- chitlins — chitterlings
- cislunar — of or relating to the space between the earth and the moon
- clannish — If you describe a group of people as clannish, you mean that they often spend time together and may seem unfriendly to other people who are not in the group.
- clanship — an association of families under the leadership of a chieftain
- clarions — Plural form of clarion.
- clashing — to make a loud, harsh noise: The gears of the old car clashed and grated.
- clasping — (of a leaf) partly or wholly surrounding the stem.
- classing — Present participle of class.
- clausing — (shipping) present participle of clause.
- clinches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clinch.
- clinkers — Plural form of clinker.
- clip-ons — sunglasses designed to be clipped on to a person's spectacles
- cloisonn — Alternative spelling of cloisonne.
- close in — If a group of people close in on a person or place, they come nearer and nearer to them and gradually surround them.
- close-in — near, as to a common center; adjacent, especially to a city: The city is enveloping its close-in suburbs.
- closings — Plural form of closing.
- clownish — If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- codlings — Plural form of codling.
- colistin — a polymyxin antibiotic
- colonias — (in the southwestern U.S.) a city neighborhood or a rural settlement inhabited predominantly by Mexicans or Mexican Americans.
- colonics — of or relating to the colon.
- colonies — the subject territories formerly in the British Empire
- colonise — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.