8-letter words containing a, t, i, l
- antilife — opposed to living in harmony with the natural order
- antilles — main island group of the West Indies, including all but the Bahamas
- antilock — designed to prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- antilogy — a contradiction in terms
- antimale — opposed to men
- antipole — the opposite pole
- antiroll — designed to prevent a vehicle from tilting
- antislip — designed to prevent slipping or to remain stationary
- antliate — having an antlia
- aplastic — relating to or characterized by aplasia
- apostilb — a unit of luminance equal to one ten thousandth of a lambert.
- araldite — a strong epoxy resin best known as a glue
- arbalist — a powerful medieval crossbow with a steel bow, used to shoot stones, metal balls, arrows, etc.
- arbitral — of or relating to arbitration
- arclight — A lamp that produces light by generating an electric arc across an enclosed gas.
- arillate — having an aril.
- armalite — a lightweight high-velocity rifle of various calibres, capable of automatic and semiautomatic operation
- art film — a film characterized primarily by content and technique that reflect an artistic sensibility, by psychological or social realism, etc.
- arterial — Arterial means involving or relating to your arteries and the movement of blood through your body.
- articals — Misspelling of articles Plural form of artical.
- articled — In Britain, someone who is articled to a firm of lawyers or accountants is employed by the firm and is training to become qualified.
- articles — legal training
- astilbes — Plural form of astilbe.
- ateliers — Plural form of atelier.
- athaliah — a daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and usurper of the throne of Judah, reigned 842–837 b.c. II Kings 11:1–3.
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- athletic — Athletic means relating to athletes and athletics.
- atlantic — of or relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean
- atlantis — (in ancient legend) a continent said to have sunk beneath the Atlantic Ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar
- atomical — of, pertaining to, resulting from, or using atoms, atomic energy, or atomic bombs: an atomic explosion.
- attagirl — an expression of approval
- atypical — Someone or something that is atypical is not typical of its kind.
- auntlike — similar to or like an aunt
- aurality — the quality, condition, or degree of being aural
- autodial — a telephone device that makes possible a service feature (au·to-dial) whereby a call is automatically made in response to a brief input signal from the user, as the pressing of a button.
- autofill — (computing) Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.
- autolisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used by the Autocad CAD package from Autodesk.
- availeth — Archaic third-person singular form of avail.
- aventail — the movable front flap on a helmet
- axiality — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or forming an axis: an axial relationship.
- backlift — the backward movement of a cricket bat in preparation for a swing
- backlist — a publisher's previously published books that are still available
- backlite — (in automotive styling) the rear window of a vehicle.
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- bail out — If you bail someone out, you help them out of a difficult situation, often by giving them money.
- bailment — a contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose
- bailouts — Plural form of bailout.
- bakelite — Bakelite is a type of hard plastic that was used in the past for making things such as telephones and radios.
- balletic — If you describe someone's movements as balletic, you mean that they have some of the graceful qualities of ballet.
- ballista — an ancient catapult for hurling stones, etc