8-letter words containing l, e, k
- unlooked — not examined, investigated, or heeded (usually followed by into, on, or at): a crime that remains unlooked into.
- unmilked — (of animals) not milked
- unslaked — to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
- untackle — to free from tackle or trappings; unfasten
- unwalked — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- valkyrie — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
- vaselike — like or resembling a vase
- velskoen — sturdy shoes of untanned hide, worn in South Africa
- viselike — any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
- waiflike — Resembling a waif; apparently homeless, starving, etc.
- wakeless — (of sleep) sound; deep: He lay in wakeless sleep.
- walkable — capable of being traveled, crossed, or covered by walking: a walkable road; a walkable distance.
- walkless — (baseball) Without a walk.
- walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- walkyrie — Valkyrie.
- wasplike — any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger.
- wavelike — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- weakling — a person who is physically or morally weak.
- wedlocks — Plural form of wedlock.
- weeklies — Plural form of weekly.
- weeklong — Which lasts for a week, or approximately so.
- westlake — a city in N Ohio.
- wet look — a shiny finish given to certain clothing and footwear materials, esp plastic and leather
- wheelock — Eleazar, 1711–79, U.S. clergyman and educator: founded Dartmouth College.
- wheylike — Resembling whey.
- whiplike — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
- wickedly — evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
- wickless — a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.
- wifelike — wifely.
- winglike — resembling a wing.
- wirelike — Resembling wire or a wire.
- wisplike — a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like.
- wolflike — any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
- womblike — Resembling a womb or uterus in shape or function.
- woodlike — Resembling wood, such as in color or texture.
- woollike — Resembling wool or some aspect of it.
- workable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- workless — Having no work: unemployed.
- wormlike — Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
- wreakful — (obsolete) Vengeful; angry, furious.
- wreckful — causing wreckage.
- wrinkled — a small furrow or crease in the skin, especially of the face, as from aging or frowning.
- wrinkler — One who, or that which, wrinkles.
- wrinkles — Plural form of wrinkle.
- x-linked — of or relating to a trait controlled by a gene or genes on the X chromosome.
- yarmelke — Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
- yarmulke — a skullcap worn, especially during prayer and religious study, by Jewish males, especially those adhering to Orthodox or Conservative tradition.
- yesilkoy — a town in Turkey, near Istanbul.
- yokeless — Without a yoke.
- yokelish — Like a rustic or bumpkin; simple and ignorant.