8-letter words containing w, e, l, a
- flaxweed — Toadflax.
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- flowable — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flowrate — The flowrate is the speed at which fluid in a pipe moves, or the speed at which it moves from a reservoir into a wellbore.
- forewall — The foremost outer wall of a fortification.
- game law — a law enacted for the preservation of game, as by restricting the number and kinds of game that may be taken and by designating periods of the year when specified game may be taken.
- gamefowl — A gamebird.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- gas well — a well from which natural gas is obtained.
- gnawable — Capable of being gnawed.
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- gunwales — Plural form of gunwale.
- gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
- hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
- hawkbell — a small bell fitted to a hawk's leg
- hawklike — any of numerous birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, having a short, hooked beak, broad wings, and curved talons, often seen circling or swooping at low altitudes.
- headwall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
- hellward — towards hell
- hole saw — crown saw.
- jawlines — Plural form of jawline.
- kalewife — a female vegetable or cabbage seller
- knowable — capable of being known.
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lakewood — a city in central Colorado, near Denver.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- lane-way — a lane
- laneways — Plural form of laneway.
- latewood — Wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season.
- law term — an expression or word used in law
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- lawmaker — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- lawndale — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- lawnlike — Resembling or characteristic of a lawn.
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- lawyered — Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.
- lawyerly — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- lee wave — the wavelike effect, characterized by severe updrafts and downdrafts, that occurs when rapidly flowing air encounters the steep front of a mountain range.
- leewards — towards the lee side
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lewisham — a borough of Greater London, England.
- limewash — A mixture of slaked lime in water.
- liveware — /li:v'weir/ 1. A less common synonym for wetware 2. (Cambridge) Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad."
- longwave — (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of greater than 1000 meters.
- low beam — an automobile headlight beam providing short-range illumination of a road and intended chiefly for use in driving on the streets of cities, towns, etc.