8-letter words containing l, i, t, a, n
- pintable — a pinball machine
- plainant — a plaintiff
- plaiting — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
- plantain — any plant of the genus Plantago, especially P. major, a weed with large, spreading leaves close to the ground and long, slender spikes of small flowers.
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- platinic — of or containing platinum, especially in the tetravalent state.
- platino- — of, relating to, containing, or resembling platinum
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- 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.
- 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.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- rattling — that rattles: a rattling door.
- 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.
- 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.
- rutilant — glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
- saint-lô — a department in NW France. 2476 sq. mi. (6413 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Lô.
- salinity — of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike: a saline solution.
- santalic — of sandalwood
- santalin — the substance which gives sandalwood its colour
- scantily — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- sibilant — hissing.
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- slant-in — slant (def 13b).
- slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slatting — a slap; a sharp blow.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- solation — to change from a gel to a sol.
- stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- 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.
- stallion — an uncastrated adult male horse, especially one used for breeding.
- staminal — of or relating to stamina or endurance.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- stillman — a man who is employed to operate a still
- stunsail — studdingsail.
- sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- tablinum — (in an ancient Roman house) a large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance.
- tackling — equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.