8-letter words containing a, r, t, l
- pillaret — a small pillar.
- placater — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- plackart — placate2 .
- plaister — plaster.
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- plastral — of or relating to a plastron.
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- pleather — a synthetic leather
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- plutarch — a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- polestar — Polaris.
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- portaloo — a portable toilet
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- portlast — the gunnel of a ship
- portolan — a book of sailing charts with notations on coasts, harbours, etc
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- postoral — uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- pratfall — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- prattler — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- prealtar — in front of the altar.
- prealter — to alter beforehand
- prenatal — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- preplant — occurring before planting
- pretrial — a proceeding held by a judge, arbitrator, etc., before a trial to simplify the issues of law and fact and stipulate certain matters between the parties, in order to expedite justice and curtail costs at the trial.
- primatal — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- pronotal — relating to an insect's pronotum
- protocal — (spelling) It's spelled "protocol".
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- pterylae — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- pustular — of, relating to, or of the nature of pustules.
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- raclette — a dish made by heating a piece of cheese, as over a hearth, and scraping off the melted part onto a plate: served with boiled potatoes.
- rag bolt — barb bolt.
- rallyist — a person who participates in automobile rallies.
- rat belt — A cable tie, especially the sawtoothed, self-locking plastic kind that you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs). Small cable ties are "mouse belts".
- rat tail — a hair style characterized by a long thin tail of hair growing at the back of the head
- rat-hole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.