8-letter words containing l, a, s
- bleakest — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- bleakish — quite pale
- blue gas — water gas.
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
- brasilia — the capital of Brazil (since 1960), on the central plateau: the former capital was Rio de Janeiro. Pop: 3 341 000 (2005 est)
- brasilin — brazilin
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- bullbars — large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- cabalism — a mystical philosophical doctrine based on the doctrines of the cabala
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- cageless — Without a cage.
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- calabash — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- calathus — a vase-shaped basket represented in ancient Greek art, used as a symbol of fruitfulness
- calcspar — calcite
- calculus — Calculus is a branch of advanced mathematics which deals with variable quantities.
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calfless — (of a cow) having no calves
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- caliches — Plural form of caliche.
- calicoes — Plural form of calico.
- calipash — the greenish glutinous edible part of the turtle found next to the upper shell, considered a delicacy
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calisaya — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted
- calixtus — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- callisto — a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera. Zeus then set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major
- callosal — of or relating to the corpus callosum.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calluses — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calmness — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.