8-letter words that end in l
- interpel — (transitive, obsolete) To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with.
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- inthrall — Archaic form of enthrall.
- ipsambul — Abu Simbel.
- irenical — Peaceful, conciliatory; promoting peace, especially over theological or ecclesiastical disputes.
- ironical — pertaining to, of the nature of, exhibiting, or characterized by irony or mockery: an ironical compliment; an ironical smile.
- isanomal — a line on a map or chart connecting points having an equal anomaly of a meteorological quantity.
- iso-reel — the exposed film of one or more isolated cameras that is ready for editing.
- isobutyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent hydrocarbon radical derived from isobutanol.
- isogonal — equiangular; isogonic.
- istanbul — a port in NW Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus: built by Constantine I on the site of ancient Byzantium; capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and of the Ottoman Empire; capital removed to Ankara 1923.
- jackroll — to force (a woman) to submit to sexual intercourse with a number of young men at the same time
- jargonel — a type of pear that ripens early
- jet fuel — fuel to be used in jet aircraft
- journall — Obsolete form of journal.
- judicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- kalispel — a Salishan language used by the Flathead Indians of Montana and by some neighboring tribes in Idaho and the western part of Washington.
- karrusel — a revolving escapement for minimizing positional error.
- keelhaul — Nautical. to haul (an offender) under the bottom of a ship and up on the other side as a punishment.
- keloidal — Of or pertaining to keloids.
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- kickball — a children's game, similar to baseball, in which a large inflated ball, as a soccer ball, is kicked instead of being batted.
- kicktail — The upwards-bent tip of the deck of a skateboard.
- kirkwall — a town on Pomona island, NE of Scotland in the Orkney Islands: administrative center of the Orkney Islands.
- know-all — a know-it-all.
- komsomol — a communist organization in the Soviet Union for youths 16 years of age and older.
- korfball — (uncountable) A non-contact unisex team sport originating from Holland, similar to netball, where players attempt to throw a ball into a basket atop a pole.
- kwakiutl — a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
- lacrimal — lachrymal (defs 1–3).
- lacrymal — Alternative spelling of lachrymal.
- ladleful — the amount that fills a ladle.
- lagoonal — Of or pertaining to a lagoon, especially one behind a coral reef.
- lak cell — lymphokine-activated killer cell: one of a number of white blood cells removed from a patient's whole blood and cultured with interleukin-2: used experimentally for reinfusion into the body to shrink malignant tumors.
- lambkill — sheep laurel.
- lamp oil — kerosene.
- landfall — an approach to or sighting of land: The ship will make its landfall at noon tomorrow.
- landfill — a low area of land that is built up from deposits of solid refuse in layers covered by soil.
- landrail — The corncrake, Crex crex.
- landsmal — Nynorsk.
- langspel — a long and narrow old or traditional Scandinavian stringed instrument, played with the fingers and not a bow
- lard oil — a colorless or yellowish oil expressed from lard, used chiefly as a lubricant for cutting tools.
- laughful — full of laughter
- laystall — a place where waste and dung is deposited
- lazy sml — Lazy Standard ML
- lecithal — having a yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- leg-pull — an amusing hoax, practical joke, or the like: The entire story was a hilarious leg-pull.
- lenticel — a body of cells formed on the periderm of a stem, appearing on the surface of the plant as a lens-shaped spot, and serving as a pore.
- lightful — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- limassol — a seaport in S Cyprus: Phoenician ruins.