8-letter words containing l, a, y, e, r
- lawyerly — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- lay bare — to reveal or explain
- lay over — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- layerage — layering
- layering — a thickness of some material laid on or spread over a surface: a layer of soot on the window sill; two layers of paint.
- layovers — Plural form of layover.
- leathery — like leather in appearance or texture; tough and flexible.
- legatary — a legatee
- lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
- linearly — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
- literary — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
- lysander — died 395 b.c, Spartan naval commander and statesman.
- malarkey — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
- mannerly — having or showing good manners; courteous; polite.
- markedly — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
- masterly — like or befitting a master, as in skill or art; worthy of a master; very skillful: a masterly presentation of the budget.
- maturely — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- mersalyl — a salt of sodium, C13H16HgNNaO6, which was formerly used as a diuretic
- neurally — of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
- ornately — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- pale dry — light in color and not sweet
- pale-dry — light-colored and medium-sweet: pale-dry ginger ale.
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
- parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- pearleye — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Scopelarchidae, having large, hooked teeth on the tongue, telescopic eyes, and an iridescent patch on each eye tube.
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- playwear — playclothes.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- preapply — to apply beforehand
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- pterylae — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- pyrazole — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and two double bonds in the ring.
- quakerly — like a Quaker.
- raggedly — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- raillery — good-humored ridicule; banter.
- rateably — capable of being rated or appraised.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- re-apply — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- readably — easy or interesting to read.
- readerly — pertaining to or suitable for a reader
- rectally — of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- red clay — a brown to red, widely distributed deep-sea deposit consisting chiefly of microscopic particles and tinted red by iron oxides and manganese.
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- relaying — re-lay.