8-letter words containing l
- ablating — Present participle of ablate.
- ablation — the surgical removal of an organ, structure, or part
- ablative — (in certain inflected languages such as Latin) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument, manner, or place of the action described by the verb
- ablators — Plural form of ablator.
- ablegate — a papal envoy who has important duties abroad such as bringing a cardinal's insignia to him when he has just been appointed, or taking a message to a sovereign
- ableness — (uncountable, now, rare) Ability of body or mind; power; force; vigor. (First attested from around 1350 to 1470.).
- abligate — (obsolete) To tie up so as to hinder from.
- abluting — Present participle of ablute.
- ablution — the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels
- abnormal — Someone or something that is abnormal is unusual, especially in a way that is worrying.
- abomasal — of or relating to the abomasum
- aborally — away from or opposite the mouth
- abristle — Bristling.
- abruptly — sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.
- abseiled — Simple past tense and past participle of abseil.
- abseiler — Someone who abseils.
- absently — in an absent-minded or preoccupied manner; inattentively
- absolute — Absolute means total and complete.
- absolved — Simple past tense and past participle of absolve.
- absolver — to free from guilt or blame or their consequences: The court absolved her of guilt in his death.
- absolves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absolve.
- absurdly — utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.
- abusable — able to be abused
- abuseful — (rare) Full of abuse; abusive.
- abutilon — any shrub or herbaceous plant of the malvaceous genus Abutilon, such as the flowering maple, that have showy white, yellow, or red flowers
- abuttals — the boundaries of a plot of land where it abuts against other property
- acalypha — Any of the genus Acalypha of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae.
- acapella — Alternative spelling of a cappella.
- acapulco — a port and resort in SW Mexico, in Guerrero state. Pop: 761 000 (2005 est)
- acauline — having no stem
- acclaims — Plural form of acclaim.
- accolade — If someone is given an accolade, something is done or said about them which shows how much people admire them.
- accruals — Plural form of accrual.
- aceldama — the place near Jerusalem that was bought with the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas for betraying Jesus (Matthew 27:8; Acts 1:19)
- acervuli — Plural form of acervulus.
- acetoxyl — a medicine used to treat acne, with benzoyl peroxide as it active ingredient
- acetylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the acetyl group.
- ach-laut — the voiceless velar fricative sound that is written as ch in Scottish loch or in German ach, often allophonic with the ich-laut
- achelous — a river god who changed into a snake and a bull while fighting Hercules but was defeated when Hercules broke off one of his horns
- achilary — having no labellum or lip, or one that is undeveloped, as in the flower of certain orchids.
- achillea — any plant of the N temperate genus Achillea, with white, yellow, or purple flowers, some species of which are widely grown as garden plants: family Asteraceae (composites)
- achilles — Greek hero, the son of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis: in the Iliad the foremost of the Greek warriors at the siege of Troy. While he was a baby his mother plunged him into the river Styx making his body invulnerable except for the heel by which she held him. After slaying Hector, he was killed by Paris who wounded him in the heel
- achingly — You can use achingly for emphasis when you are referring to things that create feelings of wanting something very much, but of not being able to have it.
- aciculae — Plural form of acicula.
- acicular — shaped like a needle.
- aciculum — a bristlelike part; seta
- acoelous — not having a true digestive tract
- acolytes — Plural form of acolyte.
- acrolect — the most standard form of language
- acrolein — a colourless or yellowish flammable poisonous pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CH2:CHCHO