8-letter words containing l, y, e, h
- lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
- litherly — crafty, cunning, or mischievous
- louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- lynchers — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- lysithea — a small moon of the planet Jupiter.
- methoxyl — containing the methoxy group.
- methylal — a colorless, flammable, volatile liquid, C 3 H 8 O 2 , having a chloroformlike odor, used chiefly as a solvent, in perfumery, and in organic synthesis.
- methylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the methyl group.
- motherly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a mother; maternal: motherly solicitude.
- overholy — too holy
- phenylic — relating to, consisting of or originating from phenyl
- phylesis — evolutionary events that modify an organism or group of organisms without leading to the formation of a new species
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- phyllite — a slaty rock, the cleavage planes of which have a luster imparted by minute scales of mica.
- phyllode — an expanded petiole resembling and having the function of a leaf, but without a true blade.
- phyllome — a leaf of a plant.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- rheology — the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- schleppy — slovenly, dowdy, or run-down; frumpy: a schleppy hotel; a schleppy old bathrobe.
- schuyler — Philip John, 1733–1804, American statesman and general in the Revolutionary War.
- sheltery — providing shelter
- shockley — William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
- shrewdly — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- 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.
- stealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- 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
- tetchily — irritable; touchy.
- the holy — a sacred place
- the lyre — the constellation Lyra
- the only — being single or very few in number
- theology — the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
- thessaly — a region in E Greece: a former division of ancient Greece. 5208 sq. mi. (14,490 sq. km).
- triethyl — containing three ethyl groups.
- unhomely — not homely
- wealthys — a variety of red apple, grown in the U.S., ripening in early autumn.
- wheatley — Phillis [fil-is] /ˈfɪl ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1753?–84, American poet, born in Africa; probably Senegal.
- wheezily — In a wheezy manner.
- wheylike — Resembling whey.
- whitefly — any of several plant-sucking, homopterous insects of the family Aleyrodidae, having the body and wings dusted with a white, powdery wax, and being widely distributed chiefly in tropical regions where they are often serious crop pests, as Dialeurodes citri (citrus whitefly) commonly occurring on citrus trees, and Trialeurodes vaporariorum (greenhouse whitefly) inhabiting greenhouses.
- whiteley — Brett. 1939–1992, Australian artist, who travelled widely in Europe and Asia; his works include landscapes, nudes, and portraits
- wilf hey — (person) The person who originally developed Report Program Generator and coined the phrase GIGO (garbage in: garbage out). In 2004, after more than forty years in computing, he was writing for PC Plus magazine in the UK and doing Wilf's programmers workshop amongst other things. He died on 2007-01-01 after a long illness.
- wych elm — an elm, Ulmus glabra, of northern and western Europe, having large, coarse leaves.
- wych-elm — an elm, Ulmus glabra, of northern and western Europe, having large, coarse leaves.
- yieldeth — Archaic third-person singular form of yield.
- yokelish — Like a rustic or bumpkin; simple and ignorant.