8-letter words containing s, h, e, l
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- leghorns — Plural form of leghorn.
- lekythos — an oil jar having an ellipsoidal body, narrow neck, flanged mouth, curved handle extending from below the lip to the shoulder, and a narrow base terminating in a foot: used chiefly for ointments.
- lekythus — lekythos.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- lewisham — a borough of Greater London, England.
- lewisohn — Ludwig [luhd-wig] /ˈlʌd wɪg/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1955, U.S. novelist and critic, born in Germany.
- li hsueh — School of Law.
- lightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lighten.
- lighters — Plural form of lighter.
- lightest — a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- limewash — A mixture of slaked lime in water.
- linisher — a machine that polishes and makes the surface of a material smooth using a moving belt coated in an abrasive material
- liverish — resembling liver, especially in color.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- loveship — The act of falling in or making love; courtship.
- lugholes — Plural form of lughole.
- lurchers — Plural form of lurcher.
- lushhead — lush2 (def 1).
- lushness — (of vegetation, plants, grasses, etc.) luxuriant; succulent; tender and juicy.
- luthiers — Plural form of luthier.
- lynchers — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- lysithea — a small moon of the planet Jupiter.
- macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
- manholes — Plural form of manhole.
- mashable — Of a consistency suitable for mashing.
- melchers — Gari [gair-ee] /ˈgɛər i/ (Show IPA), 1860–1932, U.S. painter.
- milkshed — a region producing milk for a specific community: the St. Louis milkshed.
- mulhouse — a city in E France, near the Rhine.
- nathless — Alternative form of natheless.
- newshole — Alternative form of news hole.
- nosehole — A nostril.
- novelish — (esp of a name or a person) characteristic of a novel; having qualities like those of a character or scene in a novel; fanciful; romantic
- nutshell — the shell of a nut.
- ochlesis — any disease caused by overcrowding.
- old shoe — a person or thing that is comfortably familiar and unpretentious: Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.
- old-shoe — a person or thing that is comfortably familiar and unpretentious: Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.
- on-shelf — On-shelf goods are available now and displayed for sale.
- opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- overlush — excessively lush
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- pesthole — a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- phylesis — evolutionary events that modify an organism or group of organisms without leading to the formation of a new species
- pithless — (of citrus fruit or peel) without any pith
- polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- posthole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- relished — liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again