8-letter words containing k, i, l, t
- slitlike — to cut apart or open along a line; make a long cut, fissure, or opening in.
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- stalinsk — former name of Novokuznetsk.
- stalking — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- steplike — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stickful — as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.
- stickily — in a sticky manner
- stickler — a person who insists on something unyieldingly (usually followed by for): a stickler for ceremony.
- stickley — Gustav [guhs-tahv,, goo s-tahf] /ˈgʌs tɑv,, ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1858–1942, U.S. furniture designer, architect, and leader of the Arts and Craft Movement in America.
- strickle — a straightedge used for sweeping off heaped-up grain to the level of the rim of a measure.
- tackling — equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.
- tailback — the offensive back who lines up farthest behind the line of scrimmage, as in a single wingback or double wingback formation.
- tailskid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
- take ill — to be annoyed or offended at
- talk big — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talktime — the amount of time for which a subscriber can use a mobile-phone network
- tashlikh — a Jewish rite, performed on the afternoon usually of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, in which the participants symbolically cast off their sins by gathering along the banks of a river, stream, or the like and reciting prayers of repentance.
- the like — similar things
- ticklace — (in Newfoundland) a kittiwake
- tickling — light touching
- ticklish — sensitive to tickling.
- tilelike — like a tile
- tinkling — to give forth or make a succession of short, light, ringing sounds, as a small bell.
- tomblike — an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
- tool kit — set of equipment for a manual task
- top kill — a technique in which a heavy fluid, usually drilling mud, is pumped into a leaking oil well to stop the flow of oil: The top kill is underway, but success remains uncertain as engineers desperately pump mud into the damaged blowout preventer.
- topolski — Feliks (fiːlɪks). 1907–89, British painter, born in Poland; best known for his sketches and murals, esp for Memoir of the Century (1975–89) painted on viaduct arches on London's South Bank
- treelike — a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- trickily — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
- tricklet — a tiny trickle
- triskele — a symbolic figure consisting of three legs, arms, or branches radiating from a common center, as the device of Sicily and the Isle of Man.