8-letter words containing l, e, p, s
- impulses — Plural form of impulse.
- iphicles — a son of Alcmene and Amphitryon, the brother of Hercules.
- isopleth — a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- jalopies — Plural form of jalopy.
- kalispel — a Salishan language used by the Flathead Indians of Montana and by some neighboring tribes in Idaho and the western part of Washington.
- kelpfish — any of several blennies that are common among kelp. Compare kelp greenling.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- keyspell — (text, tool, education) A spell checker and teaching aid from UK company KeySpell Limited for Microsoft Windows. KeySpell offers a selection of phonetically similar words, phrases, confusable terms, and examples in context. Even correctly spelt homophones can be checked. KeySpell can be run with Microsoft Word 97 or stand-alone. It includes 225,000 words and phrases and can use subsets of these.
- l-shaped — having the shape of the letter L
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- lampless — Without a lamp or lamps; unlit.
- lampreys — Plural form of lamprey.
- langspel — a long and narrow old or traditional Scandinavian stringed instrument, played with the fingers and not a bow
- lap-size — of a size to fit the lap: a lap-size chessboard.
- lapsable — liable to lapse.
- lapsible — liable to lapse.
- lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
- lempiras — Plural form of lempira.
- lens cap — a small lid or cover for a camera lens which protects it when the camera is not in use
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- let slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- limpness — lacking stiffness or firmness, as of substance, fiber, structure, or bodily frame: a limp body.
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- liposome — Cell Biology. a microscopic artificial sac composed of fatty substances and used in experimental research of the cell.
- lispview — CLOS based windowing system on OpenWindows.
- 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.
- lopsided — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
- louse up — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- loveship — The act of falling in or making love; courtship.
- lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- milepost — any of a series of posts set up to mark distance by miles, as along a highway, or an individual post showing the distance to or from a place.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- misspell — Spell (a word) incorrectly.
- misspelt — Simple past tense and past participle of misspell.
- mpegplus — (compression, algorithm) A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- nepalese — of or relating to Nepal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- netsplit — netburp
- newsclip — A very high level language designed for writing netnews filters. It translates into C. It includes support for various newsreaders. Version 1.01 includes a translator from NewsClip to C, examples and documentation. NewsClip was written by Looking Glass Software Ltd. and is distributed and used by ClariNet Communications Corporation It is only supported for ClariNet customers. Output of the filters may not be sold and donation for use of this program is hinted at. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- octuples — Plural form of octuple.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.