8-letter words containing l, a, n, d, s
- landfast — attached to or grounded on shore or land: landfast ice.
- landings — Plural form of landing.
- landless — without landed property; not owning land: a landless noble.
- landmass — a part of the continental crust above sea level having a distinct identity, as a continent or large island.
- landseer — Sir Edwin Henry, 1802–73, English painter, especially of animals.
- landshut — a city in SE Germany, in Bavaria: Trausnitz castle (13th century); manufacturing centre for machinery and chemicals. Pop: 60 282 (2003 est)
- landside — the part of a plow consisting of a sidepiece opposite the moldboard, for guiding the plow and resisting the side pressure caused by the turning of the furrow.
- landskip — landscape.
- landslip — the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope.
- landsmal — Nynorsk.
- landsman — Also, landman. a person who lives or works on land.
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- laniards — Plural form of laniard.
- lansdale — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- lanyards — Plural form of lanyard.
- launders — Plural form of launder.
- leadings — Plural form of leading.
- leadsman — a sailor who sounds with a lead line.
- leadsmen — Plural form of leadsman.
- leonidas — died 480 b.c, Greek hero: king of Sparta 489?–480.
- loadings — Plural form of loading.
- lodesman — a person who steers a ship
- lowlands — land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.
- lysander — died 395 b.c, Spartan naval commander and statesman.
- lysandra — a female given name.
- mandalas — Plural form of mandala.
- mandrels — Plural form of mandrel.
- midlands — a city in W Texas.
- mossland — a land covered in peat
- newlands — John Alexander. 1838–98, British chemist: classified the elements in order of their atomic weight, noticing similarities in every eighth and thus discovering his law of octaves
- newslady — A newswoman.
- oil sand — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- oilsands — Plural form of oilsand.
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- outlands — Exurbia: the country beyond the city.
- redlands — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rosalind — a female given name.
- saarland — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- saddling — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
- salading — the ingredients for a salad
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- saltando — (of a performance with a stringed instrument) playing each note staccato by bouncing the bow on the strings.
- sand eel — sand lance.
- sand fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- sand-fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- sand-lot — a vacant lot used by youngsters for games or sports.
- sandable — the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- sandaled — a shoe consisting of a sole of leather or other material fastened to the foot by thongs or straps.
- sandhill — a hill of sand, esp a dune on the seashore
- sandless — having no sand