8-letter words containing l, o, e, r
- deflator — (economics) A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
- deflower — to despoil of beauty, innocence, etc; mar; violate
- deletory — something that deletes or erases
- delouser — a substance or device which removes lice from something
- delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- deplored — to regret deeply or strongly; lament: to deplore the present state of morality.
- deplorer — One who deplores.
- deplores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deplore.
- deployer — a person or thing that deploys
- disenrol — to remove from a register
- doggerel — comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure. rude; crude; poor.
- dolerite — a coarse-grained variety of basalt.
- dollared — having many dollars; wealthy
- doorbell — a bell chime, or the like, at a door or connected with a door, rung by persons outside wanting someone inside to open the door.
- doorless — a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
- dopplers — Plural form of doppler.
- dotterel — any of several plovers usually inhabiting upland areas, especially Eudromias morinellus, of Europe and Asia.
- doublers — Plural form of doubler.
- doublure — an ornamental lining of a book cover.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- drollery — something whimsically amusing or funny.
- drollest — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- droplets — Plural form of droplet.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- dropsley — a dish of very small dumplings made from a batter of butter, egg, flour, and seasoning dropped in small pieces into broth.
- dry hole — any well drilled for oil or gas that does not yield enough to be commercially profitable.
- ear lobe — the soft, pendulous lower part of the external ear.
- earholes — Plural form of earhole.
- earldoms — Plural form of earldom.
- earlobes — Plural form of earlobe.
- early on — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- eelworms — Plural form of eelworm.
- egg roll — a cylindrical casing of egg dough filled with a minced mixture of meat or shrimp, bamboo shoots, onions, etc., and fried in deep fat.
- el greco — real name Domenikos Theotocopoulos. 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete; noted for his elongated human forms and dramatic use of colour
- electors — Plural form of elector.
- electro- — Electro- is used to form words that refer to electricity or processes involving electricity.
- electron — A stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.
- electros — Plural form of electro.
- elevator — A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels.
- elicitor — A person or thing that elicits.
- elsinore — Helsingør
- elytroid — like an elytron
- embryol. — embryology
- emplored — Simple past tense and past participle of implore.
- emplores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implore.
- employer — A person or organization that employs people.
- emulator — A person or thing that emulates.
- encloser — (now, chiefly, historical) Someone who appropriates common land.