8-letter words containing s, o, l
- oilstone — a block of fine-grained stone, usually oiled, for putting the final edge on certain cutting tools by abrasion.
- old days — a past era
- old rose — rose color with a purplish or grayish cast.
- old shoe — a person or thing that is comfortably familiar and unpretentious: Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.
- old stoa — the earliest phase of Stoicism, lasting from the latter part of the 4th century to the early part of the 3rd century b.c.
- old west — the western region of the U.S., especially in the frontier period of the 19th century.
- old-shoe — a person or thing that is comfortably familiar and unpretentious: Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.
- oldskool — Adhering to an original field of practice.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- oldsters — Plural form of oldster.
- oleaster — an ornamental shrub or small tree, Elaeagnus angustifolia, of Eurasia, having fragrant yellow flowers and an olivelike fruit.
- olivares — Conde-Ducque de, title of Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental. 1587–1645, Spanish statesman: court favourite and prime minister (1621–43) of Philip IV. His attempts to establish Hapsburg domination of Europe ended in failure
- olykoeks — doughnut.
- olynthus — an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.
- omphalos — the navel; umbilicus.
- on-shelf — On-shelf goods are available now and displayed for sale.
- onliners — Plural form of onliner.
- onliness — (obsolete) The state of being alone.
- oologist — A person who studies or specializes in oology.
- 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.
- oral sex — sexual contact between the mouth and the genitals or anus; fellatio, cunnilingus, or anilingus.
- orbitals — Plural form of orbital.
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- orgulous — Archaic. haughty; proud.
- orinasal — pronounced with the voice issuing through the mouth and the nose simultaneously, as in the nasalized vowels of French.
- orlistat — A drug designed to treat obesity.
- oronasal — of or relating to the mouth and the nose.
- orseille — orchil.
- ortolans — Plural form of ortolan.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- ossicles — Plural form of ossicle.
- ossicula — Plural form of ossiculum.
- ostioles — Plural form of ostiole.
- otiosely — In an otiose manner.
- otoliths — Plural form of otolith.
- outbless — to exceed in blessing
- outblush — to blush more than or to exceed in rosy colour
- outcalls — Plural form of outcall.
- outclass — to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by a wide margin; be superior: He far outclasses the other runners in the race.
- outfalls — Plural form of outfall.
- outflash — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- outflies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outfly.
- outflows — Plural form of outflow.
- outflush — a burst of emotion
- outhauls — Plural form of outhaul.