8-letter words containing s, l, a, u
- languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- lapillus — a small stony particle ejected from a volcano.
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- larousse — Pierre Athanase [pyer a-ta-nahz] /pyɛr a taˈnɑz/ (Show IPA), 1817–75, French grammarian, lexicographer, and encyclopedist.
- lash out — the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- last out — to go on or continue in time: The festival lasted three weeks.
- lathyrus — a genus of leguminous climbing plants that includes the sweet pea
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- launches — Plural form of launch.
- launders — Plural form of launder.
- laurasia — a hypothetical landmass in the Northern Hemisphere near the end of the Paleozoic Era: split apart to form North America and Eurasia.
- lausanne — a canton in W Switzerland. 1239 sq. mi. (3210 sq. km). Capital: Lausanne.
- lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.
- leaguers — Plural form of leaguer.
- leukomas — Plural form of leukoma.
- linnaeus — Carolus [kar-uh-luh s] /ˈkær ə ləs/ (Show IPA), (Carl von Linné) 1707–78, Swedish botanist.
- locustal — of or relating to locusts
- louganis — Gregory ("Greg") born 1960, U.S. diver.
- luanshya — a town in central Zambia.
- luggages — suitcases, trunks, etc.; baggage.
- lugsails — Plural form of lugsail.
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- lunarist — a person who believes the moon influences weather
- lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
- luristan — a mountainous region in W Iran.
- lusatian — a native or inhabitant of Lusatia.
- lushhead — lush2 (def 1).
- lustrate — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- lutanist — a person who plays the lute.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- macushla — darling.
- mailouts — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- maquilas — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.
- masscult — the forms of culture, as music, drama, and literature, as selected, interpreted, and popularized by the mass media for dissemination to the widest possible audience.
- maudslay — Henry, 1771–1831, English mechanical engineer.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- missoula — a city in W Montana.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- mudflats — Plural form of mudflat.
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- mulattos — Plural form of mulatto.
- muralism — an artistic movement identified chiefly with the Mexican painters José Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Siqueiros and exemplified by their grand-scale, narrative murals on humanitarian, social, and political themes.
- muralist — an artist who paints murals, especially an artist associated with muralism.