8-letter words that end in el
- ruisdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- ruysdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- sand eel — sand lance.
- sapropel — mud consisting chiefly of decomposed organic matter formed at the bottom of a stagnant sea or lake.
- schimmel — a roan-coloured horse
- schlegel — August Wilhelm von [ou-goo st vil-helm fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1767–1845, German poet, critic, and translator.
- schnabel — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1882–1951, Austrian pianist.
- scrannel — thin or slight.
- sentinel — a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
- sewellel — mountain beaver.
- shlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- shrapnel — Military. a hollow projectile containing bullets or the like and a bursting charge, designed to explode before reaching the target, and to set free a shower of missiles. such projectiles collectively.
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spandrel — Architecture. an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
- squirrel — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- staumrel — stupid; half-witted.
- streusel — a topping for coffeecake, consisting of crumbs of blended sugar, cinnamon, flour, butter, and chopped nutmeats.
- strummel — straw
- sublevel — a drift, dug through ore, into which overlying material, especially from an upper layer of ore, is caved.
- subpanel — a panel that is part of a larger panel
- switchel — a drink of molasses and water, plus ginger or rum; treacle beer
- taffarel — taffrail.
- tafferel — taffrail.
- tar heel — a native or inhabitant of North Carolina (used as a nickname).
- threshel — a flail or a tool for threshing corn
- unkennel — to drive (a fox or other animal) from a den or lair.
- vorspiel — an introductory movement to a musical work, especially a prelude or overture.
- webwheel — a wheel containing a plate or web instead of spokes
- weichsel — a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1050 km) long.
- whimbrel — a curlew, Numenius phaeopus, of both the New and Old Worlds.
- wolf-eel — a large, eellike fish, Anarrhichthys ocellatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America.