8-letter words containing l, a, s
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- occlusal — the act or state of occluding or the state of being occluded.
- oddballs — Plural form of oddball.
- offloads — Plural form of offload.
- oil sand — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- oilsands — Plural form of oilsand.
- old days — a past era
- old stoa — the earliest phase of Stoicism, lasting from the latter part of the 4th century to the early part of the 3rd century b.c.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- oleaster — an ornamental shrub or small tree, Elaeagnus angustifolia, of Eurasia, having fragrant yellow flowers and an olivelike fruit.
- olivares — Conde-Ducque de, title of Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental. 1587–1645, Spanish statesman: court favourite and prime minister (1621–43) of Philip IV. His attempts to establish Hapsburg domination of Europe ended in failure
- omphalos — the navel; umbilicus.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- oral sex — sexual contact between the mouth and the genitals or anus; fellatio, cunnilingus, or anilingus.
- orbitals — Plural form of orbital.
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- orinasal — pronounced with the voice issuing through the mouth and the nose simultaneously, as in the nasalized vowels of French.
- orlistat — A drug designed to treat obesity.
- oronasal — of or relating to the mouth and the nose.
- ortolans — Plural form of ortolan.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- ossicula — Plural form of ossiculum.
- outcalls — Plural form of outcall.
- outclass — to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by a wide margin; be superior: He far outclasses the other runners in the race.
- outfalls — Plural form of outfall.
- outflash — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- outhauls — Plural form of outhaul.
- outlands — Exurbia: the country beyond the city.
- outlasts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outlast.
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- ovalness — The quality of being oval.
- overalls — overalls, (used with a plural verb) loose, sturdy trousers, usually with a bib or biblike piece to which shoulder straps are attached, originally worn over other trousers to protect them, as by factory workers or farmers. long waterproof leggings.
- oversail — a projection
- oversale — the selling of more than is available
- oversalt — to put too much salt in
- oxysalts — any salt of an oxyacid.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- palazzos — women's pants with wide legs that flare broadly at the ankle
- paleosol — a fossil soil preserved within a sequence of geological deposits, indicative of past conditions.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- palstave — a bronze celt fitted into a split wooden handle.
- paludism — malaria.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- paneless — (of a building or window) without panes of glass