8-letter words starting with le
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- 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.
- lepidote — covered with scurfy scales or scaly spots.
- leporide — a Belgian hare formerly believed to be a hybrid of the European rabbit and hare.
- leporine — of, relating to, or resembling a rabbit or hare.
- leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
- leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
- lernaean — relating to Lerna, the swamp or lake near Argos in which dwelt the Hydra which Hercules slew
- lesbians — Plural form of lesbian.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- lesioned — an injury; hurt; wound.
- lessened — to become less.
- lessness — (philosophy) The state or condition of being less.
- lessoned — Simple past tense and past participle of lesson.
- let down — British. a lease.
- let into — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- let slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- letching — a lecherous desire or craving.
- letdowns — Plural form of letdown.
- lethally — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
- letronne — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (100 km) in diameter.
- lettable — able to be let or rented
- lettered — educated or learned.
- letterer — a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
- lettings — Plural form of letting.
- lettuces — Plural form of lettuce.
- leucaena — any of various tropical trees belonging to the genus Leucaena, of the legume family, which includes the lead tree.
- leucemia — leukemia.
- leucemic — leukemic
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- leucosis — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- leukemia — any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.
- leukemic — any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.
- leukemid — any cutaneous lesion that occurs in leukemia.
- leukomas — Plural form of leukoma.
- leukosis — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- leukotic — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- leuricus — Leofric.
- levanted — Simple past tense and past participle of levant.
- levanter — a strong easterly wind in the Mediterranean.
- levation — The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
- levators — Plural form of levator.
- leveeing — Present participle of levee.
- levelers — Plural form of leveler.
- leveling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- levelled — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- leveller — a person or thing that levels.
- leverage — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
- leverets — Plural form of leveret.