8-letter words containing l, i, a, t
- plaudits — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- playlist — a list of the recordings to be played on the radio during a particular program or time period, often including their sequence, duration, etc.
- playsuit — a sports costume for women and children, usually consisting of shorts and a shirt, worn as beachwear, for tennis, etc.
- playtime — time for play or recreation.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- poetical — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- politian — (Angelo Poliziano) 1454–94, Italian classical scholar, teacher, and poet.
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- postical — (of the position of plant parts) behind another part; posterior
- pretrial — a proceeding held by a judge, arbitrator, etc., before a trial to simplify the issues of law and fact and stipulate certain matters between the parties, in order to expedite justice and curtail costs at the trial.
- primatal — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- psalmist — an author of psalms.
- ptyalism — excessive secretion of saliva.
- ptyalize — to induce the flow of saliva
- pulpital — relating to the pulpit
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- 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.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- rallyist — a person who participates in automobile rallies.
- rat tail — a hair style characterized by a long thin tail of hair growing at the back of the head
- rat-tail — grenadier (def 4).
- rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- rattling — that rattles: a rattling door.
- 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.
- ringtail — any phalanger of the genus Pseudocheirus, having the prehensile tail curled into a ring.
- ritually — an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- rivality — rivalry
- 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.
- royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
- ruralist — one who leads or advocates a rural life
- ruralite — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- rurality — rural character.
- rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- rutilant — glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
- sagittal — Anatomy. of or relating to the suture between the parietal bones at the roof of the skull or to a venous canal within the skull and parallel to this suture. (in direction or location) from front to back in the median plane or in a plane parallel to the median.
- sailboat — a boat having sails as its principal means of propulsion.