8-letter words containing s, l, a, u
- equalism — Any of several forms of egalitarianism (advocacy of equality) concerned with establishing sexual, racial, class or other equality.
- escurial — Escorial
- espousal — An act of adopting or supporting a cause, belief, or way of life.
- euglenas — Plural form of euglena.
- eusocial — (biology) Of or pertaining to certain social animals' societies (such as those of ants) in which sterile individuals work for reproductive individuals.
- fabulism — (literature) A form of magic realism in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting.
- fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
- fabulous — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- faesulae — a town in central Italy, in Tuscany near Florence: Etruscan and Roman remains. Pop: 14 085 (2001)
- failures — Plural form of failure.
- fallouts — Plural form of fallout.
- famously — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- faunlets — Plural form of faunlet.
- faveolus — a small pit or cavity resembling a cell of a honeycomb; alveola.
- feastful — festive, occupied with feasting
- feluccas — Plural form of felucca.
- fissural — Pertaining to a fissure or fissures.
- fistulae — Pathology. a narrow passage or duct formed by disease or injury, as one leading from an abscess to a free surface, or from one cavity to another.
- fistulas — Plural form of fistula.
- flaneurs — Plural form of flaneur.
- flareups — Plural form of flareup.
- flashgun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flatuous — flatulent
- flautist — flutist.
- flavours — Plural form of flavour.
- flue gas — the smoke in the uptake of a boiler fire: it consists mainly of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen
- formulas — (informal) Plural form of formula.
- foulards — Plural form of foulard.
- funerals — Plural form of funeral.
- fur seal — any of several eared seals, as Callorhinus alascanus, having a plush underfur used in making coats, trimmings, etc.
- fusarole — a type of architectural moulding often found below the echinus or quarter round of a column
- fuselage — the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.
- fusional — the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- galbulus — A fleshy seed-producing cone of junipers and cypresses.
- galerius — full name Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus. ?250–311 ad, Eastern Roman Emperor (305–311): noted for his persecution of Christians
- gallnuts — Plural form of gallnut.
- gallused — held up by galluses; having galluses
- galluses — a pair of suspenders for trousers.
- galumphs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of galumph.
- gastfull — dismal; dreary
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.
- gaullism — a political movement in France led by Charles de Gaulle.
- gaullist — a supporter of the political principles of Charles Charles de Gaulle.
- gaumless — gormless.
- gealousy — Obsolete form of jealousy.
- gelasius — (Giovanni de Gaeta) died 1119, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1118–19.
- gestural — a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture.
- gesualdo — Don Carlo [dawn kahr-law] /dɔn ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), Prince of Venosa [ve-naw-zah] /vɛˈnɔ zɑ/ (Show IPA), c1560–1613, Italian composer.
- ghastful — frightful.
- glabrous — having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence.