8-letter words containing l, o, a
- apologue — an allegory or moral fable
- apolunes — Plural form of apolune.
- apoplast — the nonprotoplasmic component of a plant, including the cell walls and intercellular material
- apoplexy — Apoplexy is a stroke.
- apostilb — a unit of luminance equal to one ten thousandth of a lambert.
- apostles — Plural form of apostle.
- appellor — the accuser or prosecutor
- appleton — Sir Edward (Victor). 1892–1965, English physicist, noted particularly for his research on the ionosphere: Nobel prize for physics 1947
- approval — If you win someone's approval for something that you ask for or suggest, they agree to it.
- apronful — the quantity that can be held in an apron
- arboreal — Arboreal animals live in trees.
- arcology — a type of architecture concerned with the design of enormous vertical cities that maximize population density and so preserve the surrounding countryside
- areolate — a ring of color, as around the human nipple.
- areology — the study of the planet Mars
- aridisol — a soil type common to the world's deserts, poor in organic matter and rich in salts.
- arillode — a false aril, developing from an opening in the covering of the ovule instead of from its stalk
- arilloid — relating to or resembling an aril
- armholes — Plural form of armhole.
- armlocks — Plural form of armlock.
- armorial — of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms
- arsehole — If one person calls another person an arsehole, they think that person is extremely stupid or has behaved in a stupid way.
- arvicole — a mouse or water vole that belongs to the genus Arvicola
- ash flow — an avalanche of volcanic ash.
- ashkelon — Ashqelon
- ashqelon — city in SW Israel, on the Mediterranean: nearby is the site of an ancient city-state (often sp. Ashkelon) of the Philistines, 12th cent. b.c. (cf. I Sam. 6:17; Jer. 25:20): pop. 57,000
- asphodel — any of various S European liliaceous plants of the genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, having clusters of white or yellow flowers
- assholes — Plural form of asshole.
- assoiled — Simple past tense and past participle of assoil.
- assoluta — absolute; supreme: a prima ballerina assoluta.
- asystole — the absence of heartbeat; cardiac arrest
- atenolol — a type of beta-blocker that is taken by mouth and is used to treat angina and high blood pressure
- atheldom — (rare) The state or condition of being athel or noble; nobility.
- atmology — the study of or the scientific discipline of aqueous vapour
- atmolyse — to separate gases, which have differing degrees of diffusibility, by filtering
- atomical — of, pertaining to, resulting from, or using atoms, atomic energy, or atomic bombs: an atomic explosion.
- atonable — Capable of being atoned for.
- atonally — In an atonal manner; without tone.
- aureolae — Plural form of aureola.
- aureoles — Plural form of aureole.
- aureolin — a pigment used in painting, consisting of potassium cobaltinitrite and characterized by its brilliant yellow hue, transparency, and permanence.
- autodial — a telephone device that makes possible a service feature (au·to-dial) whereby a call is automatically made in response to a brief input signal from the user, as the pressing of a button.
- autofill — (computing) Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.
- autoflow — (transitive, computing) To flow (text) automatically.
- autolisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used by the Autocad CAD package from Autodesk.
- autoload — to load automatically
- autology — the study of oneself
- autoloom — (India) A type of power loom.
- autolyse — to undergo or cause to undergo autolysis
- autolyze — to affect with or undergo autolysis
- auxology — (biology) The study of growth.