8-letter words containing c, l, o, t
- locators — Plural form of locator.
- loch tay — a lake in central Scotland, in Stirling council area. Length: 23 km (14 miles)
- lock nut — a nut specially constructed to prevent its coming loose, usually having a means of providing extra friction between itself and the screw.
- lock out — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lockbolt — A fastener in the form of a pin fitted with a collar placed over the locking bolt.
- lockfast — (Scottish) Fastened or secured with a lock.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- locknuts — Plural form of locknut.
- lockouts — Plural form of lockout.
- lockport — a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.
- lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- locomote — to move about, especially under one's own power.
- loculate — having one or more locules.
- locustal — of or relating to locusts
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- locutory — locutorium.
- logicist — (philosophy) An adherent of logicism.
- logistic — of or relating to logistic.
- lopstick — a tree trimmed of all but its topmost branches to serve as a landmark or marker.
- lordotic — Pathology. an abnormal forward curvature of the spine in the lumbar region, resulting in a swaybacked posture. Compare kyphosis, scoliosis.
- loricate — covered with a lorica.
- low tech — low-technology.
- low-cost — able to be purchased or acquired at relatively little cost: low-cost life insurance; low-cost housing.
- low-tech — low-technology.
- lt comdr — Lieutenant Commander
- luck out — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- mesolect — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- miltonic — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- mocktail — a nonalcoholic cocktail.
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- montcalm — Louis Joseph [lwee zhaw-zef] /lwi ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1712–59, French general in Canada.
- nitrolic — of or noting a series of acids of the type RC(=NOH)NO 2 , whose salts form deep-red solutions.
- nocently — in a nocent manner; harmfully
- noctilio — any bat of the S American genus Noctilio
- noctules — Plural form of noctule.
- noetical — Alternative form of noetic.
- nonelect — a person or group of people that is not chosen or elected, esp for salvation
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- occulted — of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
- occulter — Any object, natural or man-made, that blocks the light of an object from an observer, typically used in reference to astronomical events.
- occultly — In an occult manner.
- ocellate — (of a spot or marking) eyelike.
- ocotillo — a spiny, woody shrub, Fouqueria splendens, of arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a tight cluster of red flowers at the tip of each branch.
- octalogy — (rare) # A set of eight works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as eight individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- octaloop — (genetics) An eight-base hairpin loop motif.
- octangle — octangular.
- octantal — relating to an octant
- octofoil — double quatrefoil.
- octopole — (physics) A multipole configuration with eight equal charges arranged in a circular pattern.
- octuples — Plural form of octuple.