8-letter words containing l, i, t, e, o
- legation — a diplomatic minister and staff in a foreign mission.
- leighton — Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton) 1830–96, English painter and sculptor.
- lenition — Phonetics. a phonological process that weakens consonant articulation at the ends of syllables or between vowels, causing the consonant to become voiced, spirantized, or deleted.
- leontief — Wassily [vah-see-lee] /vɑˈsi li/ (Show IPA), 1906–1999, U.S. economist, born in Russia: Nobel Prize 1973.
- lepidote — covered with scurfy scales or scaly spots.
- leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
- leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
- let into — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- 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.
- levation — The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
- lewiston — a city in SW Maine.
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- libretto — the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
- lifeboat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- limonite — an amorphous hydrated ferric oxide, varying in color from dark brown to yellow, used as an ore of iron.
- line out — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- line-out — a procedure for putting an out-of-bounds ball back in play, whereby a player outside the touchline tosses the ball high and between two lines of opposing forwards lined up perpendicular to the touchline.
- lineouts — Plural form of lineout.
- linotype — to typeset on a Linotype machine.
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- lipocyte — fat cell.
- literose — affectedly literary
- live out — residing away from the place of one's employment: a live-out cook.
- live-out — residing away from the place of one's employment: a live-out cook.
- localite — one who lives in a particular locality.
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- loftiest — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- loftlike — Resembling a loft.
- loitered — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
- loiterer — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
- longtime — existing, occurring, or continuing for a long period of time; longstanding: longtime friends celebrating 50 years of association.
- loricate — covered with a lorica.
- lorikeet — any of various small lories.
- lossiest — Superlative form of lossy.
- lovebite — Alternative spelling of love bite.
- low tide — the tide at the point of maximum ebb.
- lowliest — Superlative form of lowly.
- luteolin — a yellow coloring substance, C 15 H 10 O 6 , obtained from the weed Reseda luteola: used in dyeing silk and, formerly, in medicine.
- megillot — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- melilots — Plural form of melilot.
- melitose — raffinose.
- melodist — a composer or a singer of melodies.
- mesolite — a mineral variety of the zeolite group, intermediate in chemical composition between natrolite and scolecite.
- 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.
- misletoe — Archaic form of mistletoe.
- moatlike — Resembling a moat or some aspect of one.
- modelist — a person who makes models, as of airplanes.
- mollient — Serving to soften or assuage; emollient.
- motelier — a person running or owning a motel or motel chain
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.