8-letter words containing l, a, e
- apparell — Obsolete form of apparel.
- apparels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apparel.
- appealed — Simple past tense and past participle of appeal.
- appealer — an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea.
- appeling — Present participle of appel.
- appellee — a person who is accused or appealed against
- appellor — the accuser or prosecutor
- applause — Applause is the noise made by a group of people clapping their hands to show approval.
- apple ii — (computer) An 8-bit personal computer with a 6502 processor, from Apple Computer. It was invented by Steve Wozniak and was very popular from about 1980 until the first several years of MS-DOS IBM PCs.
- appleton — Sir Edward (Victor). 1892–1965, English physicist, noted particularly for his research on the ionosphere: Nobel prize for physics 1947
- applique — Applique is the craft of sewing fabric shapes onto larger pieces of cloth. You can also use applique to refer to things you make using this craft.
- appulses — Plural form of appulse.
- apuleius — Lucius (ˈluːsɪəs). 2nd century ad, Roman writer, noted for his romance The Golden Ass
- aquileia — a town in NE Italy, at the head of the Adriatic: important Roman centre, founded in 181 bc. Pop: 3329 (2001)
- aquiline — If someone has an aquiline nose or profile, their nose is large, thin, and usually curved.
- arabella — a feminine name: dim. Bella
- aral sea — a lake in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, east of the Caspian Sea, formerly the fourth largest lake in the world: shallow and saline, now badly polluted; use of its source waters for irrigation led to a loss of over 50% of its area between 1967 and 1997, after which the reduction began to be slowed. Area originally (to 1960) about 68 000 sq km (26 400 sq miles); water area reduced by 2004 to about 17 158 sq km (6625 sq miles) and the lake divided into sections
- araldite — a strong epoxy resin best known as a glue
- arbalest — a large medieval crossbow, usually cocked by mechanical means
- arboreal — Arboreal animals live in trees.
- arbuscle — a small tree, or a plant halfway between a shrub and a tree
- archaeal — relating to or involving the order Archaea
- archlute — a long, large bass lute
- ardently — having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love.
- areolate — a ring of color, as around the human nipple.
- areology — the study of the planet Mars
- argental — relating to or containing silver
- arguable — If you say that it is arguable that something is true, you believe that it can be supported by evidence and that many people would agree with it.
- argutely — in an argute manner
- arillate — having an aril.
- arillode — a false aril, developing from an opening in the covering of the ovule instead of from its stalk
- armalite — a lightweight high-velocity rifle of various calibres, capable of automatic and semiautomatic operation
- armholes — Plural form of armhole.
- armidale — a town in Australia, in NE New South Wales: a centre for tourism. Pop: 20 271 (2001)
- arsehole — If one person calls another person an arsehole, they think that person is extremely stupid or has behaved in a stupid way.
- arsenals — Plural form of arsenal.
- arterial — Arterial means involving or relating to your arteries and the movement of blood through your body.
- arteveld — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1290?–1345, Flemish statesman.
- articled — In Britain, someone who is articled to a firm of lawyers or accountants is employed by the firm and is training to become qualified.
- articles — legal training
- arvicole — a mouse or water vole that belongs to the genus Arvicola
- as level — a public examination taken for the General Certificate of Education, with a smaller course content than an A level: since 2000 taken either as the first part of a full A level or as a qualification in its own right
- ashkelon — Ashqelon
- ashqelon — city in SW Israel, on the Mediterranean: nearby is the site of an ancient city-state (often sp. Ashkelon) of the Philistines, 12th cent. b.c. (cf. I Sam. 6:17; Jer. 25:20): pop. 57,000
- asparkle — in a glittering or glinting manner
- asphodel — any of various S European liliaceous plants of the genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, having clusters of white or yellow flowers
- asplenia — Absence of normal spleen function.
- assailed — Simple past tense and past participle of assail.
- assailer — One who assails; an assailant.
- assemble — When people assemble or when someone assembles them, they come together in a group, usually for a particular purpose such as a meeting.