8-letter words starting with l
- lamented — mourned for, as a person who is dead: Our late lamented friend.
- lamenter — One who laments.
- lamentin — Alternative form of lamantin.
- laminate — to separate or split into thin layers.
- laminose — laminate; laminar.
- laminous — laminate; laminose.
- lamister — lamster.
- lamp oil — kerosene.
- lampions — Plural form of lampion.
- lampless — Without a lamp or lamps; unlit.
- lampoons — Plural form of lampoon.
- lamppost — a post, usually of metal, supporting a lamp that lights a street, park, etc.
- lampreys — Plural form of lamprey.
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- lampyrid — any of several beetles of the family Lampyridae, comprising the fireflies.
- lancegay — a lance used in medieval times
- lancelet — any of several small, lancet-shaped burrowing marine animals of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a notochord and bearing structural similarities to both vertebrates and invertebrates.
- lancelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- lanceted — having lancet-headed openings.
- lanciers — Plural form of lancier.
- lancings — Plural form of lancing.
- land art — earth art.
- land tax — law: includes all land sb owns
- landable — Capable of being landed.
- landbank — An area of land held in reserve by a house-building firm.
- landfall — an approach to or sighting of land: The ship will make its landfall at noon tomorrow.
- landfast — attached to or grounded on shore or land: landfast ice.
- landfill — a low area of land that is built up from deposits of solid refuse in layers covered by soil.
- landform — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- landgrab — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- landings — Plural form of landing.
- landlady — a woman who owns and leases an apartment, house, land, etc., to others.
- landless — without landed property; not owning land: a landless noble.
- landline — a circuit of wire or cable connecting two ground locations.
- landlock — (transitive) To enclose or nearly enclose (a harbour, vessel, etc.) with land.
- landlord — a person or organization that owns and leases apartments to others.
- landmark — a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location: The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
- landmass — a part of the continental crust above sea level having a distinct identity, as a continent or large island.
- landmine — an explosive charge concealed just under the surface of the ground or of a roadway, designed to be detonated by pressure, proximity of a vehicle or person, etc.
- landrace — one of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of northern European origin.
- landrail — The corncrake, Crex crex.
- landseer — Sir Edwin Henry, 1802–73, English painter, especially of animals.
- landshut — a city in SE Germany, in Bavaria: Trausnitz castle (13th century); manufacturing centre for machinery and chemicals. Pop: 60 282 (2003 est)
- landside — the part of a plow consisting of a sidepiece opposite the moldboard, for guiding the plow and resisting the side pressure caused by the turning of the furrow.
- landskip — landscape.
- landslip — the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope.
- landsmal — Nynorsk.
- landsman — Also, landman. a person who lives or works on land.
- landward — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.