8-letter words containing l, a, e, t, i
- 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.
- realties — real property or real estate.
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- relation — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- relative — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- remittal — a remission.
- reptilia — the class comprising the reptiles.
- requital — the act of requiting.
- retailer — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- retailor — to make (clothing) suitable for a new person or purpose by changing the details
- retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.
- rolamite — (sometimes initial capital letter) an almost frictionless mechanical device consisting of a flexible metal band formed in an S-shaped loop around moving rollers.
- ruralite — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- salivate — to produce saliva.
- satiable — capable of being satiated.
- saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
- sea lift — an operation to move people, troops or goods by sea
- seablite — any of several halophytic herbs of the genus Suaeda, having fleshy leaves.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- septical — septic
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- set sail — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- sibilate — to hiss.
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- slaister — a sloppy mess
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- smaltite — a mineral, originally thought to have been a diarsenide of cobalt, CoAs 2 , but which is actually a skutterudite rich in cobalt.
- societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- sodalite — a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate, Na 4 Al 3 Si 3 O 1 2 Cl, occurring massive and in crystals, usually blue in color and found in certain alkali-rich igneous rocks.
- solidate — a parcel of land whose value is equal to a solidus
- soterial — relating to salvation
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- steadily — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- stillage — a low platform on which goods are stored in a warehouse or factory to keep them off the floor, to aid in handling, etc. Compare skid (def 3).
- suitable — such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming.
- tafilelt — an oasis in SE Morocco, about 200 sq. mi. (520 sq. km).
- tag line — the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point.
- tail end — the hinder or rear part of anything.
- tailbone — the coccyx.
- taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
- tailgate — a style of playing the trombone, especially in Dixieland jazz, distinguished especially by the use of melodic counterpoint and long glissandi.
- tailless — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- tailleur — a tailored or tailor-made costume for women.