8-letter words containing l, y, e
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- soldiery — soldiers collectively.
- solemnly — grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood: solemn remarks.
- solvency — solvent condition; ability to pay all just debts.
- somberly — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- sottedly — in the manner of a sot
- souterly — relating to a souter
- sowbelly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- speedily — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- spyplane — a military aeroplane used to spy on an enemy
- squarely — in a square shape, form, or manner.
- squirely — belonging or relating to, or appropriate to, a squire or squires
- statedly — fixed or settled: a stated price.
- stayless — not able to be stopped or stayed; constantly moving
- steadily — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- stealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- steevely — in a firm or unyielding manner
- stellify — to change or be changed into a star
- stickley — Gustav [guhs-tahv,, goo s-tahf] /ˈgʌs tɑv,, ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1858–1942, U.S. furniture designer, architect, and leader of the Arts and Craft Movement in America.
- stievely — in a firm way
- stonefly — any of numerous dull-colored primitive aquatic insects of the order Plecoptera, having a distinctive flattened body shape: a major food source for game fish, especially bass and trout, which makes them popular as models for fishing flies.
- stylised — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- stylized — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- substyle — a straight line on a dial on which the style (the object that creates the shadow, on, for example, a sundial) is erected
- subtlety — the state or quality of being subtle.
- suddenly — happening, coming, made, or done quickly, without warning, or unexpectedly: a sudden attack.
- sullenly — showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
- summerly — summerlike; summery.
- superbly — admirably fine or excellent; extremely good: a superb performance.
- supinely — lying on the back, face or front upward.
- supplely — supply2 .
- surveyal — the action of surveying
- sveltely — in a svelte manner
- swayable — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
- syllable — an uninterrupted segment of speech consisting of a vowel sound, a diphthong, or a syllabic consonant, with or without preceding or following consonant sounds: “Eye,” “sty,” “act,” and “should” are English words of one syllable. “Eyelet,” “stifle,” “enact,” and “shouldn't” are two-syllable words.
- sylvaner — a white grape grown in the Alsace region of France and in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
- sylviine — (of a bird) belonging to the subfamily Sylviinae
- 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
- symploce — the simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe.
- syncline — a synclinal fold.
- synfuels — synthetic fuel.
- tax levy — the amount of money charged as taxation on particular assets or goods
- tea lady — a woman employed in a factory, office, etc to make tea during a tea break
- telecopy — a message or document sent by fax
- telegony — a former belief that a sire can influence the characteristics of the progeny of the female parent and subsequent mates.
- teleplay — a play written or adapted for broadcast on television.
- teletype — (lowercase) a network of teletypewriters with their connecting lines, switchboards, etc.