8-letter words containing s, t, a, l
- lamppost — a post, usually of metal, supporting a lamp that lights a street, park, etc.
- landfast — attached to or grounded on shore or land: landfast ice.
- landshut — a city in SE Germany, in Bavaria: Trausnitz castle (13th century); manufacturing centre for machinery and chemicals. Pop: 60 282 (2003 est)
- langosta — spiny lobster.
- langston — John Mercer, 1829–97, U.S. public official, diplomat, and educator.
- lanosity — lanate.
- lantanas — Plural form of lantana.
- lanterns — Plural form of lantern.
- lantsang — Chinese name of Mekong.
- lapidist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
- 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.
- lastness — The quality of being or coming last; finality.
- lateness — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- laterals — Plural form of lateral.
- lathyrus — a genus of leguminous climbing plants that includes the sweet pea
- latinism — a mode of expression derived from or imitative of Latin.
- latinist — a specialist in Latin.
- latrines — Plural form of latrine.
- lattices — Plural form of lattice.
- lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.
- layettes — Plural form of layette.
- layshaft — an auxiliary shaft in a gearbox, running parallel to the main shaft, to and from which drive is transferred to enable varying ratios to be obtained
- laystall — a place where waste and dung is deposited
- lazarist — Vincentian (def 1).
- leafiest — Superlative form of leafy.
- leaflets — Plural form of leaflet.
- leakiest — Superlative form of leaky.
- leastest — (nonstandard) least.
- leathers — Plural form of leather.
- legalist — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- legatees — Plural form of legatee.
- leotards — A close-fitting one-piece garment, made of a stretchy fabric, which covers a person's body from the shoulders to the top of the thighs and typically the arms, worn by dancers or people exercising indoors.
- levators — Plural form of levator.
- libertas — the ancient Roman personification of liberty.
- lifecast — a live video of one's daily activities, broadcast over the Internet: A lot of people are obsessed with following her daily lifecast.
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- lisptalk — "Concurrent Programming Language Lisptalk", C. Li, SIGPLAN Notices 23(4):71-80 (Apr 1988).
- listable — That can be listed.
- listeria — any of several rod-shaped, aerobic, parasitic bacteria of the genus Listeria, pathogenic for humans and animals.
- litanies — Plural form of litany.
- literals — Plural form of literal.
- loadstar — a star that shows the way.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- localist — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- locators — Plural form of locator.
- lockfast — (Scottish) Fastened or secured with a lock.
- locustal — of or relating to locusts
- lodestar — a star that shows the way.