8-letter words containing l, e, s, i
- banalise — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- baseline — The baseline of a tennis, badminton, or basketball court is one of the lines at each end of the court that mark the limits of play.
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- basileus — A title of the Byzantine emperor.
- bassline — (in jazz, rock, and pop music) the part played by the bass guitar
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- bedevils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil.
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- believes — to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
- biasedly — in a biased manner
- bimensal — occurring every two months
- biserial — in two rows
- bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
- bistable — having two stable states
- bleakish — quite pale
- blessing — A blessing is something good that you are grateful for.
- blinders — Blinders are two pieces of leather that are placed at the side of a horse's eyes so that it can only see straight ahead.
- blinkers — If you describe someone as wearing blinkers, you think that they have a narrow point of view and are not taking other people's opinions into account.
- blistery — having blisters, as paint or glass.
- blokeish — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an ordinary man
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- bodiless — having no body or substance; incorporeal or insubstantial
- bonspiel — a curling match
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bus line — the route of a bus or buses.
- bushlike — resembling a bush
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- caliches — Plural form of caliche.
- calicoes — Plural form of calico.
- 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.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- camelish — similar to a camel
- camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
- ceilidhs — Plural form of ceilidh.
- ceilings — Plural form of ceiling.