8-letter words starting with l
- lavatory — a room fitted with equipment for washing the hands and face and usually with flush toilet facilities.
- lavement — A washing or bathing.
- lavender — a pale bluish purple.
- laverock — a lark, especially a skylark.
- lavished — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lavishes — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lavishly — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- law term — an expression or word used in law
- law-hand — a style of handwriting used in old legal documents, especially in England.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawfully — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- lawmaker — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- lawndale — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- lawnlike — Resembling or characteristic of a lawn.
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.
- lawyered — Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.
- lawyerly — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- laxation — a loosening or relaxing.
- laxative — a medicine or agent for relieving constipation.
- lay away — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay back — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay bare — to reveal or explain
- lay days — Commerce. one of a certain number of days allowed by a charter party for loading or unloading a vessel without demurrage.
- lay down — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay into — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay open — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay over — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- layabout — a lazy or idle person; loafer.
- laybacks — Plural form of layback.
- layerage — layering
- layering — a thickness of some material laid on or spread over a surface: a layer of soot on the window sill; two layers of paint.
- layettes — Plural form of layette.
- layovers — Plural form of layover.
- layshaft — an auxiliary shaft in a gearbox, running parallel to the main shaft, to and from which drive is transferred to enable varying ratios to be obtained
- laystall — a place where waste and dung is deposited
- laywoman — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- lazarist — Vincentian (def 1).
- laziness — lazy evaluation
- lazuline — having the color of lapis lazuli.
- lazulite — an azure-blue mineral, hydrous magnesium iron aluminum phosphate, (FeMg)Al 2 P 2 O 8 (OH) 2 .
- lazurite — a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate and sulfide, Na 5 Al 3 Si 3 O 12 S 3 , occurring in deep-blue crystals, used for ornamental purposes.
- lazy bed — (in parts of Scotland and Ireland, formerly) a patch in which potatoes were cultivated by laying them on the surface and covering them with kelp and with soil from a trench on either side of the bed
- lazy eye — the deviating eye in strabismus.
- lazy guy — a rope or light tackle for keeping a boom from swinging.
- lazy sml — Lazy Standard ML
- le carre — John (David John Moore Cornwell) born 1931, English author of spy novels.
- le havre — a seaport in N France, at the mouth of the Seine.