8-letter words containing l, a, s, c
- scotland — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- scrabble — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrabbly — insignificantly small or sparse: scrabbly tufts of grass sprouting from the parched lawn.
- scraggly — irregular; uneven; jagged.
- scramble — to climb or move quickly using one's hands and feet, as down a rough incline.
- scrannel — thin or slight.
- scrapple — cornmeal mush mixed with pork scraps, seasoned with onions, spices, herbs, etc., and shaped into loaves and sliced for frying.
- scrattle — to scratch
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawler — a person who scrawls.
- scrofula — primary tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands, especially those of the neck.
- scybalum — hard faeces in the intestine
- sea calf — harbor seal.
- sea lace — a brown seaweed, Chorda filum, that grows on stones under sandy bottoms and produces chordlike fronds up to 8.5 metres (28 ft) long
- secalose — a sugar which occurs in green rye and oats
- sectoral — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- seleucia — an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- septical — septic
- shackled — a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
- shackles — two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone's wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping
- shauchle — to distort the shape of (something)
- shauchly — (of a person) unsteady or awkward on the feet
- shellack — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shoelace — a string or lace for fastening a shoe.
- sicilian — an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean. 9924 sq. mi. (25,705 sq. km). Capital: Palermo.
- sidalcea — any plant of the mostly perennial N American genus Sidalcea, related to and resembling mallow, esp S. malvaeflora, grown for its spikes of lilac, pink, or red flowers: family Malvaceae
- silastic — a flexible inert silicone rubber, used esp in prosthetic medicine
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- silicula — a short broad siliqua, occurring in such cruciferous plants as honesty and shepherd's-purse
- silvatic — of or relating to the forest; sylvan
- silvical — relating to silvics
- sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- skullcap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- slack up — to go more slowly
- slacking — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slapjack — a simple card game.
- slavonic — Slavonian.
- slipcase — a box for a book or set of books, open on one side so that the spine is visible.
- slot car — a miniature, electrically-operated toy racing car that runs on a slotted track and is controlled by an operator with a handheld rheostat.
- slotback — an offensive back who lines up about one yard behind the gap in the line between a tackle and an end stationed a distance outside of the tackle.
- slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
- sociable — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- sociably — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- socially — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- spacelab — a manned laboratory in space, developed by the European Space Agency, carried aboard an orbiting space shuttle.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula