8-letter words containing a, l, t, o
- flatboat — a large, flat-bottomed boat for use in shallow water, especially on rivers.
- flatfoot — Pathology. a condition in which the arch of the foot is flattened so that the entire sole rests upon the ground. Also, flat foot. a foot with such an arch.
- flatform — A type of shoe with a flat, platform sole.
- flatiron — a nonelectric iron with a flat bottom, heated for use in pressing clothes, cloth, etc.
- flatlong — With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
- flattops — Plural form of flattop.
- flatuous — flatulent
- flatwork — sheets, tablecloths, etc., that are ordinarily ironed mechanically, as on a mangle, rather than by hand.
- flatworm — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having bilateral symmetry and a soft, solid, usually flattened body, including the planarians, tapeworms, and trematodes; platyhelminth.
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- floatage — an act of floating.
- floatant — a substance used in fly-fishing to help dry flies to float
- floaters — a person or thing that floats.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- flokatis — Plural form of flokati.
- flotilla — a group of small naval vessels, especially a naval unit containing two or more squadrons.
- flotsams — Plural form of flotsam.
- flowrate — The flowrate is the speed at which fluid in a pipe moves, or the speed at which it moves from a reservoir into a wellbore.
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- foldboat — faltboat.
- foliated — covered with or having leaves.
- folk art — artistic works, as paintings, sculpture, basketry, and utensils, produced typically in cultural isolation by untrained often anonymous artists or by artisans of varying degrees of skill and marked by such attributes as highly decorative design, bright bold colors, flattened perspective, strong forms in simple arrangements, and immediacy of meaning.
- folktale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
- fontanel — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
- football — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footfall — a footstep.
- footwall — Mining. the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare hanging wall (def 1).
- forestal — a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
- forktail — Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.
- forstall — Obsolete form of forestall.
- foucault — Jean Bernard Léon [zhahn ber-nar ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ bɛrˈnar leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1819–68, French physicist.
- foulmart — the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- foxtails — Plural form of foxtail.
- frontals — Plural form of frontal.
- galacto- — milk or milky
- galliots — Plural form of galliot.
- gallipot — a type of turpentine exuded on the stems of certain species of pine.
- galloots — Plural form of galloot.
- galtonia — any plant of the bulbous genus Galtonia, esp G. candicans, with lanceolate leaves, drooping racemes of waxy white flowers, and a fragrant scent: family Liliaceae
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- gatefold — foldout (def 1).
- gelation — the process of gelling.
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- gigavolt — One thousand million ( 109 ) volts. Symbol: GV.
- glasnost — the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- glottals — Plural form of glottal.
- goalpost — a post supporting a crossbar and, with it, forming the goal on a playing field in certain sports, as football.
- goatlike — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- goatling — a young goat