8-letter words containing s, i, l, e, n
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lighten.
- ligneous — of the nature of or resembling wood; woody.
- lignites — Plural form of lignite.
- likeness — a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
- limpness — lacking stiffness or firmness, as of substance, fiber, structure, or bodily frame: a limp body.
- lineages — Plural form of lineage.
- lineless — Free of lines.
- lineouts — Plural form of lineout.
- lineside — Alongside a railway line.
- linesman — Sports. an official, as in tennis and soccer, who assists the referee. Football. an official who marks the distances gained and lost in the progress of play and otherwise assists the referee and field judge. Ice Hockey. either of two officials who assist the referee by watching for icing, offside, and substitution violations and fouls and by conducting face-offs.
- linesmen — Plural form of linesman.
- lingster — an interpreter
- linisher — a machine that polishes and makes the surface of a material smooth using a moving belt coated in an abrasive material
- linkages — Plural form of linkage.
- linnaeus — Carolus [kar-uh-luh s] /ˈkær ə ləs/ (Show IPA), (Carl von Linné) 1707–78, Swedish botanist.
- lintless — That does not contain, or does not shed lint.
- lintseed — Archaic form of linseed.
- lionised — Simple past tense and past participle of lionise.
- listened — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- listener — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- litanies — Plural form of litany.
- liteness — the quality of being 'lite', normally related to low-calorie and low-fat food
- liveness — being alive; living; alive: live animals.
- lobefins — Plural form of lobefin.
- longwise — lengthwise
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- lutenist — a person who plays the lute.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- manliest — having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength or bravery.
- marlines — Plural form of marline.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- melanise — Alt form melanize.
- melanism — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- midlines — Plural form of midline.
- milanese — a native or inhabitant of Milan, Italy.
- mildness — amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
- milesian — a native of Miletus.
- milstein — Cesar, 1927–2002, Argentinian immunologist: Nobel prize 1984.
- mindless — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- minerals — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
- misenrol — to enrol inaccurately or wrongly
- mislearn — To learn wrongly.
- moleskin — the soft, deep-gray, fragile fur of the mole.
- moliones — Cteatus and Eurytus, the twin sons of Molione, sometimes said to have been joined at the waist. They were fathered by Poseidon and reared by Actor.