8-letter words containing l, e, k
- lathlike — Resembling a lath or some aspect of one.
- lavalike — Resembling lava in one or more characteristics, such as heat or viscosity.
- laverock — a lark, especially a skylark.
- lawmaker — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- lawnlike — Resembling or characteristic of a lawn.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leaflike — Having the form or other qualities of a leaf.
- leakages — Plural form of leakage.
- leakance — the reciprocal of the resistance of insulation.
- leakiest — Superlative form of leaky.
- leakless — Without leaks.
- leg work — work or research involving extensive walking or traveling about, usually away from one's office, as in gathering data for a book, a legal action, etc.
- leg-work — work or research involving extensive walking or traveling about, usually away from one's office, as in gathering data for a book, a legal action, etc.
- lekgotla — a meeting place for village assemblies, court cases, and meetings of village leaders
- lekythos — an oil jar having an ellipsoidal body, narrow neck, flanged mouth, curved handle extending from below the lip to the shoulder, and a narrow base terminating in a foot: used chiefly for ointments.
- lekythus — lekythos.
- lentisks — Plural form of lentisk.
- leukemia — any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.
- leukemic — any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.
- leukemid — any cutaneous lesion that occurs in leukemia.
- leukomas — Plural form of leukoma.
- leukosis — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- leukotic — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- lie back — sb: recline
- lifehack — Informal. a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing a day-to-day task or activity; a hack: a lifehack for overcoming social anxiety; a computer programmer's best lifehacks.
- lifelike — resembling or simulating real life: a lifelike portrait.
- lifework — the complete or principal work, labor, or task of a lifetime.
- like fun — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
- like mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- likeable — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
- likeably — In a likeable way.
- likehood — (obsolete) likelihood.
- likeless — Unlike; dissimilar in form; different.
- likelier — probably or apparently destined (usually followed by an infinitive): something not likely to happen.
- likeness — a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
- likening — to represent as similar or like; compare: to liken someone to a weasel.
- likewise — moreover; in addition; also; too: She is likewise a fine lawyer.
- limekiln — a kiln or furnace for making lime by calcining limestone or shells.
- limerick — a county in N Munster, in the SW Republic of Ireland. 037 sq. mi. (2686 sq. km).
- linelike — Resembling a line or some aspect of one.
- linework — (arts) The technique of drawing lines.
- linkages — Plural form of linkage.
- lionlike — a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- live oak — an evergreen oak, Quercus virginiana, of the southern U.S., having a short, broad trunk and shiny, oblong leaves: the state tree of Georgia.
- livelock — (computing) A condition resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.
- lockable — capable of being locked; fitted with a lock: The car has a lockable glove compartment.
- lockless — without locks
- lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- loftlike — Resembling a loft.
- longneck — a bottle of beer.