8-letter words containing g, l, a, t
- litigate — to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
- litreage — a capacity measured in litres
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- longboat — (formerly) the largest boat carried by a sailing ship.
- longtail — A common designation for an animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
- luxating — Present participle of luxate.
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- maltings — Plural form of malting.
- mantling — a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
- megalith — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megavolt — a unit of electromotive force, equal to one million volts. Abbreviation: MV.
- meltages — (very, rare) Plural form of meltage.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- 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.
- multiage — Concerning more than one age.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- nostalgy — nostalgia.
- nutgalls — Plural form of nutgall.
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- obligate — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- obligato — Alternative spelling of obbligato.
- 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.
- octangle — octangular.
- old goat — an elderly man who is disliked, especially for being mean to or disapproving of younger people.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- outlaugh — (transitive) To ridicule or laugh someone out of a purpose, principle, etc.; laugh down; discourage or put out of countenance by laughing.
- pant leg — a leg of a pair of pants.
- patagial — of or relating to a patagium
- pilotage — the process of directing the movement of a ship or aircraft by visual or electronic observations of recognizable landmarks.
- plaiting — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plangent — resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.
- plantage — plants
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plottage — the area within or comprising a plot of land.
- plug hat — plug (def 19).
- 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.
- rag bolt — barb bolt.
- rattling — that rattles: a rattling door.
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- regelate — to freeze by regelation.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- relegate — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
- ringtail — any phalanger of the genus Pseudocheirus, having the prehensile tail curled into a ring.