8-letter words containing a, g, t, e, l
- litharge — a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
- litigate — to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
- litreage — a capacity measured in litres
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- megalith — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megavolt — a unit of electromotive force, equal to one million volts. Abbreviation: MV.
- meltages — (very, rare) Plural form of meltage.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- metaling — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- multiage — Concerning more than one age.
- obligate — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- octangle — octangular.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- pant leg — a leg of a pair of pants.
- pilotage — the process of directing the movement of a ship or aircraft by visual or electronic observations of recognizable landmarks.
- plangent — resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.
- plantage — plants
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plottage — the area within or comprising a plot of land.
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- regelate — to freeze by regelation.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- relegate — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
- spanglet — a little spangle
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- stallage — the right to set up a stall in a fair or market.
- stealage — the act of stealing.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- stillage — a low platform on which goods are stored in a warehouse or factory to keep them off the floor, to aid in handling, etc. Compare skid (def 3).
- straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- tag line — the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point.
- tag sale — garage sale.
- tailgate — a style of playing the trombone, especially in Dixieland jazz, distinguished especially by the use of melodic counterpoint and long glissandi.
- taleggio — a square Italian soft cheese with a salt-covered rind
- taligent — A company founded jointly by Apple and IBM in March 1992. HP announced in January, 1994 that it would buy a 15% stake in Taligent. They are working on an "object-oriented operating system", due to be finished sometime in 1995. However, various independent pieces of Taligent will likely appear to be used with other operating systems, e.g. IBM's WorkplaceOS. Pink is an older name for Taligent, dating back to work that Apple did before the formation of Taligent.
- tangible — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- tealight — small candle floated in water
- teiglach — a confection consisting of small balls of dough boiled in a syrup of honey, sugar, and spices.
- telegram — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
- teraglin — an edible marine fish, Zeluco atelodus, of Australia which has fine scales and is blue in colour
- thalberg — Irving (Grant) 1899–1936, U.S. motion-picture producer.
- the flag — (in Victoria, Australia) the Australian Rules premiership
- thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
- time lag — A time lag is a fairly long interval of time between one event and another related event that happens after it.
- time-lag — the period of time between two closely related events, phenomena, etc., as between stimulus and response or between cause and effect: a time-lag between the declaration of war and full war production.