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8-letter words containing s, l, o, p

  • lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
  • leopards — Plural form of leopard.
  • lionship — The state of being a lion, or famous person in society.
  • lipgloss — Alternative spelling of lip gloss.
  • lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
  • liposome — Cell Biology. a microscopic artificial sac composed of fatty substances and used in experimental research of the cell.
  • liposuck — to subject to liposuction
  • lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
  • lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
  • listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
  • lobopods — Plural form of lobopod.
  • lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
  • log ship — log chip.
  • longship — a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.
  • longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
  • lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
  • lopsided — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
  • lopstick — a tree trimmed of all but its topmost branches to serve as a landmark or marker.
  • lordship — (often initial capital letter) a term of respect used when speaking of or to certain noblemen (usually preceded by his or your).
  • louse up — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
  • loveship — The act of falling in or making love; courtship.
  • lycopsid — Any primitive plant of the division Lycopodiophyta.
  • maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
  • megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
  • milepost — any of a series of posts set up to mark distance by miles, as along a highway, or an individual post showing the distance to or from a place.
  • milksops — Plural form of milksop.
  • neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
  • neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
  • nol-pros — to end by a nolle prosequi.
  • nslookup — (networking)   A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
  • objvlisp — 1984. An object-oriented extension of Vlisp. Reflective architecture.
  • octuples — Plural form of octuple.
  • oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
  • omphalos — the navel; umbilicus.
  • opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
  • 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.
  • opticals — (India) spectacles.
  • opuscule — a small or minor work.
  • outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
  • outsleep — to sleep through or later than (a specified time).
  • outspell — to surpass at spelling
  • overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
  • overslip — to leave out; miss.
  • pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
  • palazzos — women's pants with wide legs that flare broadly at the ankle
  • paleosol — a fossil soil preserved within a sequence of geological deposits, indicative of past conditions.
  • paludose — growing or living in marshes
  • pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
  • papulose — having papules
  • parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
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