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8-letter words containing a, n, t, i, l, e

  • melanist — a melanistic person
  • melanite — a deep black variety of andradite garnet.
  • mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
  • 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.
  • nail set — a short rod of steel used to drive a nail below or flush with a surface.
  • nathalie — a female given name.
  • natively — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
  • naxalite — a member of an extreme Maoist group in India that originated in 1967 in West Bengal and which employs tactics of agrarian terrorism and direct action
  • nephtali — Naphtali.
  • noetical — Alternative form of noetic.
  • olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
  • oriental — (usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Orient, or East; Eastern.
  • palatine — of, near, or in the palate; palatal: the palatine bones.
  • panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
  • pectinal — of or resembling a comb
  • penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
  • petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
  • pieplant — the edible rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum.
  • pintable — a pinball machine
  • planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
  • pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
  • quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
  • relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
  • relation — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
  • retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.
  • smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
  • stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
  • tag line — the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point.
  • tail end — the hinder or rear part of anything.
  • tailbone — the coccyx.
  • taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
  • taliesin — flourished a.d. c550, Welsh bard.
  • 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.
  • tenaille — a low outwork in the main ditch between two bastions
  • tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
  • teraglin — an edible marine fish, Zeluco atelodus, of Australia which has fine scales and is blue in colour
  • terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
  • thalline — a chemical compound used for medicinal purposes
  • tideland — land alternately exposed and covered by the ordinary ebb and flow of the tide.
  • tirolean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tyrol or its inhabitants.
  • tonalite — an igneous rock found in the Italian Alps
  • tramline — a streetcar system.
  • trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
  • treenail — a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
  • triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
  • triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
  • twinleaf — a North American herb, Jeffersonia diphylla, having a single white blossom and leaves divided in two.
  • untailed — tailless; not having a tail; with the tail removed
  • valentia — a port in E Spain, capital of Valencia province, on the Mediterranean: the third largest city in Spain; capital of the Moorish kingdom of Valencia (1021–1238); university (1501). Pop: 780 653 (2003 est)
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