8-letter words containing l, i, t, a, n
- tag line — the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point.
- taglioni — Marie. 1804–84, Italian ballet dancer, whose romantic style greatly influenced ballet in the 19th century
- tail end — the hinder or rear part of anything.
- tail fan — the fanlike posterior appendage of crayfish and lobsters, consisting of a telson and two uropods, used for rapid backward propulsion.
- tail fin — a membranous, winglike or paddlelike organ attached to any of various parts of the body of fishes and certain other aquatic animals, used for propulsion, steering, or balancing.
- tailband — a band sewn or glued to the tail of a book. Compare headband (def 3).
- tailbone — the coccyx.
- taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
- tailings — the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
- tailspin — spin (def 23).
- tailwind — a wind coming from directly behind a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to headwind).
- 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.
- 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.
- tallying — an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
- 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.
- tenaille — a low outwork in the main ditch between two bastions
- tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
- 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.
- thalline — a chemical compound used for medicinal purposes
- thinclad — a runner on a track team
- thinglab — A simulation system written in Smalltalk-80. It solves constraints using value inference. Version: ThingLab II.
- tideland — land alternately exposed and covered by the ordinary ebb and flow of the tide.
- tirolean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tyrol or its inhabitants.
- tonalist — a person who works with or uses tonality, especially one who uses traditional tonality rather than atonality in composing music.
- tonalite — an igneous rock found in the Italian Alps
- tonality — Music. the sum of relations, melodic and harmonic, existing between the tones of a scale or musical system. a particular scale or system of tones; a key.
- tonsilar — of or relating to the tonsils
- torminal — of or relating to tormina
- totaling — constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
- trailing — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- trailman — trailsman.
- tramline — a streetcar system.
- tranquil — free from commotion or tumult; peaceful; quiet; calm: a tranquil country place.
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
- treenail — a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
- triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
- tribunal — a court of justice.
- trigonal — of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle; having three angles; triangular.
- trinodal — having three nodes or joints.