8-letter words containing l, a, s
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- dactylus — the tip of a cephalopod's tentacular club
- daedalus — an Athenian architect and inventor who built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee the island
- dalesman — a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
- dalesmen — Plural form of dalesman.
- dalglish — Kenny, born 1951, Scottish footballer: a striker, he played for Celtic (1968–77) and for Liverpool (1977–89): manager of Liverpool (1985–91; 2011–12), of Blackburn Rovers (1991–95), Newcastle United (1997–98), and Celtic (2000): Scotland's most-capped footballer (102 appearances, 1971–86)
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- darlings — Plural form of darling.
- dateless — likely to remain fashionable, relevant, or interesting regardless of age; timeless
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- dayshell — a thistle
- dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- declasse — having lost social standing or status
- defaults — Plural form of default.
- deflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflate.
- delayers — Plural form of delayer.
- delcasse — Théophile [tey-aw-feel] /teɪ ɔˈfil/ (Show IPA), 1852–1923, French statesman.
- delsarte — François [fran-swah;; French frahn-swa] /frænˈswɑ;; French frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1811–71, French musician and teacher.
- demersal — living or occurring on the bottom of a sea or a lake
- deplanes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deplane.
- desalted — Simple past tense and past participle of desalt.
- desalter — an apparatus for desalting
- descaled — Simple past tense and past participle of descale.
- descaler — a thing for removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- desklamp — A lamp used to illuminate a desk.
- desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
- despisal — contempt; the act of despising; scorn
- detassel — to remove the upper, pollen-bearing part (the tassel) of a corn (maize) plant and place it on the ground. This is done to one variety of corn in a plantation containing two varieties, so that all the corn will be pollinated by a single variety, thus producing fertile hybrids
- devalues — Reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of.
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- diabolos — Plural form of diabolo.
- dialects — Plural form of dialect.
- dialysed — to subject to dialysis; separate or procure by dialysis.
- dialyser — a machine that performs dialysis, esp one that removes impurities from the blood of patients with malfunctioning kidneys; kidney machine
- dialyses — Physical Chemistry. the separation of crystalloids from colloids in a solution by diffusion through a membrane.
- dialysis — Dialysis or kidney dialysis is a method of treating kidney failure by using a machine to remove waste material from the kidneys.
- dialyzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dialyze.
- diastole — the dilatation of the chambers of the heart that follows each contraction, during which they refill with blood
- diastyle — having columns about three diameters apart