8-letter words containing l, o, a, r
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- lecanora — any of various crustaceous lichens of the genus Lecanora, some of which are eaten and some of which are used in dyeing
- leeboard — either of two broad, flat objects attached to the sides of a sailing ship amidships, the one on the lee side being lowered into the water to prevent the ship from making leeway.
- leopardi — Count Giacomo [jah-kuh-moh;; Italian jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kəˌmoʊ;; Italian ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1798–1837, Italian poet.
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- leotards — A close-fitting one-piece garment, made of a stretchy fabric, which covers a person's body from the shoulders to the top of the thighs and typically the arms, worn by dancers or people exercising indoors.
- levators — Plural form of levator.
- liakoura — modern name of Parnassus (def 1).
- libatory — relating to libation
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- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- littoral — of or relating to the shore of a lake, sea, or ocean.
- loadstar — a star that shows the way.
- loanword — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- locators — Plural form of locator.
- locavore — a person who makes an effort to eat food that is grown, raised, or produced locally, usually within 100 miles of home.
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- lodestar — a star that shows the way.
- logboard — a board used for logging a ship's records
- logogram — a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, as the symbol & for the word and. Also called logograph [law-guh-graf, -grahf, log-uh-] /ˈlɔ gəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈlɒg ə-/ (Show IPA).
- lokacara — an action in accordance with socially accepted rules.
- lombardi — Vince(nt Thomas) 1913–70, U.S. football coach.
- lombardo — Guy (Albert) 1902–77, U.S. bandleader, born in Canada.
- lombardy — a region and former kingdom in N Italy. 9190 sq. mi. (23,800 sq. km).
- londrina — a city in E Brazil.
- long arm — a long pole fitted with any of various devices, as a hook or clamp, for performing tasks otherwise out of reach.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- lonicera — Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- lorestan — Luristan.
- loricate — covered with a lorica.
- lorraine — Also, Lorrain. Claude (Claude Gelée) 1600–82, French painter.
- losartan — An angiotensin receptor antagonist that shows antihypertensive activity.
- lothario — (sometimes lowercase) a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women.
- love rat — Journalists sometimes use love rat to refer to a man who treats his partner in a cruel way, especially by having sexual relationships with other people.
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
- low road — a method, manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous, or otherwise contemptible.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.
- luchador — A person who competes in lucha libre wrestling.
- maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
- mailroom — Also, mail room. a room used for handling incoming and outgoing mail, as in a large organization.
- malaphor — (rare neologism) An idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing a nonsensical result.
- malaprop — Mrs. a character in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), noted for her misapplication of words.
- malaroma — an unpleasant smell