8-letter words starting with l
- le jeune — Claude [klohd] /kloʊd/ (Show IPA), or Claudin, 1530?–1600? Flemish composer.
- le nôtre — André (ɑ̃dre). 1613–1700, French landscape gardener, who created the gardens at Versailles for Louis XIV
- leachate — a solution resulting from leaching, as of soluble constituents from soil, landfill, etc., by downward percolating ground water: Leachates in the town's water supply have been traced to a chemical-waste dump.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- lead off — most important; principal; leading; first: lead editorial; lead elephant; lead designer.
- lead-off — leading off or beginning: the lead-off item on the agenda.
- leadable — Capable of being led.
- leadened — inertly heavy like lead; hard to lift or move: a leaden weight; leaden feet.
- leadenly — In a leaden manner.
- leadfoot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- leadings — Plural form of leading.
- leadless — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
- leadline — A leash or strap for leading an animal.
- leadsman — a sailor who sounds with a lead line.
- leadsmen — Plural form of leadsman.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leaf bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- leaf fat — a layer of fat that surrounds the kidneys, especially of a hog.
- leaf gap — (in the stele of vascular plants) a break in the tissue of a stem around a leaf trace.
- leaf tea — tea sold in the form of leaves, rather than in tea bags
- leafbird — any of several greenish, passerine birds of the genus Chloropsis, of Asia, related to the bulbuls, and often kept as pets.
- leafiest — Superlative form of leafy.
- leafless — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leaflets — Plural form of leaflet.
- leaflike — Having the form or other qualities of a leaf.
- leaflove — An African bulbul that frequents dense thickets, with mainly drab brown plumage and a loud bubbling call.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- leaguers — Plural form of leaguer.
- leakages — Plural form of leakage.
- leakance — the reciprocal of the resistance of insulation.
- leakiest — Superlative form of leaky.
- leakless — Without leaks.
- leanings — Plural form of leaning.
- leanness — (of persons or animals) without much flesh or fat; not plump or fat; thin: lean cattle.
- leap day — February 29: the extra day added to the Gregorian calendar in leap year.
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- learners — Plural form of learner.
- learning — knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
- leasable — a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- leaseman — a person who leases land and obtains the rights to its use, especially oil-drilling rights.
- leasings — Plural form of leasing.
- leastest — (nonstandard) least.
- leathern — made of leather.
- leathers — Plural form of leather.
- leathery — like leather in appearance or texture; tough and flexible.
- leave be — not disturb
- leave go — to stop holding
- leavened — Simple past tense and past participle of leaven.
- leavings — something that is left; residue.