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8-letter words containing l, i, a, t

  • tailored — (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
  • tailpipe — an exhaust pipe located at the rear of a motor vehicle or aircraft powered by an internal-combustion engine.
  • tailrace — the race, flume, or channel leading away from a waterwheel or the like.
  • tailskid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
  • tailspin — spin (def 23).
  • tailwind — a wind coming from directly behind a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to headwind).
  • take ill — to be annoyed or offended at
  • talabani — Jalal. born 1933, Iraqi politician, a Kurd, president of Iraq (2005–2014)
  • talapoin — a small, yellowish guenon monkey, Micropithecus (Cercopithecus) talapoin, of western Africa.
  • talassio — a god invoked at ancient Roman weddings, especially in epithalamions.
  • taleggio — a square Italian soft cheese with a salt-covered rind
  • taliesin — flourished a.d. c550, Welsh bard.
  • taligent — A company founded jointly by Apple and IBM in March 1992. HP announced in January, 1994 that it would buy a 15% stake in Taligent. They are working on an "object-oriented operating system", due to be finished sometime in 1995. However, various independent pieces of Taligent will likely appear to be used with other operating systems, e.g. IBM's WorkplaceOS. Pink is an older name for Taligent, dating back to work that Apple did before the formation of Taligent.
  • talionic — of or relating to the system or legal principle of talion
  • talisman — a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet or charm.
  • 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
  • tall oil — a resinous secondary product resulting from the manufacture of chemical wood pulp: used in the manufacture of soaps, paints, etc.
  • talliate — to levy a tax upon; to tallage
  • tallises — a shawllike garment of wool, silk, or the like, with fringes, or zizith, at the four corners, worn around the shoulders by Orthodox and Conservative (sometimes also Reform) Jews, as during the morning service.
  • tallying — an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
  • talmudic — of or relating to the Talmud.
  • tanaquil — a legendary queen of Rome who prophesied the future greatness of Servius Tullius and helped him to gain the throne after the murder of her husband by a political faction.
  • tangible — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
  • tangibly — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
  • tangling — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
  • tantalic — of or relating to tantalum, especially in the pentavalent state.
  • 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.
  • tax bill — a parliamentary bill relating to taxation
  • tealight — small candle floated in water
  • teiglach — a confection consisting of small balls of dough boiled in a syrup of honey, sugar, and spices.
  • tel aviv — a city in W central Israel: one of the centers of Jewish immigration following World War II.
  • tenaille — a low outwork in the main ditch between two bastions
  • tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
  • teocalli — a ceremonial structure of the Aztecs, consisting of a truncated terraced pyramid supporting a temple.
  • teraglin — an edible marine fish, Zeluco atelodus, of Australia which has fine scales and is blue in colour
  • terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
  • thailand — Formerly Siam. a kingdom in SE Asia: official name of Siam 1939–45 and since 1949. 198,242 sq. mi. (513,445 sq. km). Capital: Bangkok.
  • thalamic — Anatomy. the middle part of the diencephalon through which sensory impulses pass to reach the cerebral cortex.
  • thalline — a chemical compound used for medicinal purposes
  • thallium — a soft, malleable, rare, bluish-white metallic element: used in the manufacture of alloys and, in the form of its salts, in rodenticides. Symbol: Tl; atomic weight: 204.37; atomic number: 81; specific gravity: 11.85 at 20°C.
  • thalloid — resembling or consisting of a thallus.
  • thetical — positive; dogmatic.
  • thiazole — a colorless, slightly water-miscible liquid, C 3 H 3 NS, having a disagreeable odor.
  • thinclad — a runner on a track team
  • thinglab — A simulation system written in Smalltalk-80. It solves constraints using value inference. Version: ThingLab II.
  • thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
  • ticklace — (in Newfoundland) a kittiwake
  • tideland — land alternately exposed and covered by the ordinary ebb and flow of the tide.
  • tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
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