8-letter words containing l, i, n, t
- flittern — the bark of a young oak tree
- flitting — to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- flouting — Openly disregard (a rule, law or convention).
- flurting — Present participle of flurt.
- flutings — Plural form of fluting.
- fly into — If you fly into a bad temper or a panic, you suddenly become very angry or anxious and show this in your behaviour.
- footling — foolish; silly: ridiculous, footling remarks.
- galactin — prolactin.
- galatian — an ancient country in central Asia Minor: later a Roman province; site of an early Christian community.
- galatine — galantine.
- galenite — a common, heavy mineral, lead sulfide, PbS, occurring in lead-gray crystals, usually cubes, and cleavable masses: the principal ore of lead.
- galivant — Alt form gallivant.
- gallatin — Albert, 1761–1849, U.S. statesman: Secretary of the Treasury 1801–13.
- galtonia — any plant of the bulbous genus Galtonia, esp G. candicans, with lanceolate leaves, drooping racemes of waxy white flowers, and a fragrant scent: family Liliaceae
- gantline — a rope rove through a single block hung from a mast, funnel, etc., as a means of hoisting workers, tools, flags, or the like.
- gelatine — a nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like.
- gelatins — Plural form of gelatin.
- gelation — the process of gelling.
- genitals — Synonym of genitalia.
- gentiles — Plural form of gentile.
- gentilic — Tribal or national.
- gentling — Present participle of gentle.
- gill net — a curtainlike net, suspended vertically in the water, with meshes of such a size as to catch by the gills a fish that has thrust its head through.
- girtline — gantline.
- glinting — a tiny, quick flash of light.
- glistens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glisten.
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- glutelin — any of a group of simple proteins of vegetable origin, especially one from wheat.
- glutenin — a simple protein of cereal grains that imparts adhesive properties to flour.
- glutting — Present participle of glut.
- gnatling — a small gnat
- goatling — a young goat
- greenlit — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
- guilting — the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; culpability: He admitted his guilt.
- gunflint — the flint in a flintlock.
- halation — a blurred effect around the edges of highlight areas in a photographic image caused by reflection and scattering of light through the emulsion from the back surface of the film support or plate.
- hamilton — William Hamilton
- handlist — a list, as of the contents of a collection, containing few details
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- helminth — a worm, especially a parasitic worm.
- holstein — Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- hot line — a direct telecommunications link, as a telephone line or Teletype circuit, enabling immediate communication between heads of state in an international crisis: the hot line between Washington and Moscow.
- hot link — a link between two files, as between a spreadsheet and a document, such that a change in one effects a change in the other.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- hurtling — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- hustling — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- ilkeston — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 37 270 (2001)