8-letter words containing l, i, h, s, e
- sighless — without uttering a sigh
- sighlike — resembling a sigh
- sinkhole — a hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slithery — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- suchlike — of any such kind; similar.
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- swelchie — the tidal race in the Pentland Firth
- swellish — stylish; resembling a 'swell'
- switchel — a drink of molasses and water, plus ginger or rum; treacle beer
- symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
- the soil — life and work on a farm; land
- thelitis — inflammation of the nipple.
- tilefish — a large, brilliantly colored food fish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, of deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- weichsel — a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1050 km) long.
- welshing — Present participle of welsh.
- wheelies — Plural form of wheelie.
- whipless — without a whip
- whistled — Simple past tense and past participle of whistle.
- whistler — James (Abbott) McNeill [muh k-neel] /məkˈnil/ (Show IPA), 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.
- whistles — Plural form of whistle.
- whittles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whittle.
- wishable — Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.
- wishless — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- yokelish — Like a rustic or bumpkin; simple and ignorant.