8-letter words containing l, i, t, e
- blighter — You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter.
- blipvert — a very short television advertisement
- blistery — having blisters, as paint or glass.
- blithely — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
- blue tit — A blue tit is a small European bird with a blue head, wings, and tail, and a yellow front.
- bluetick — a type of coonhound commonly bred in the southern United States
- boatlike — resembling a boat
- bolo tie — a cord, worn as a necktie, with an ornamented fastening for adjusting the neck loop
- boltlike — resembling a bolt
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- bulletin — A bulletin is a short news report on the radio or television.
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- buntline — one of several lines fastened to the foot of a square sail for hauling it up to the yard when furling
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- calamite — any extinct treelike plant of the genus Calamites, of Carboniferous times, related to the horsetails
- calebite — a member of a tribe descended from Caleb.
- califate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- calltime — time available for making calls on a mobile phone
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- canticle — a nonmetrical hymn, derived from the Bible and used in the liturgy of certain Christian churches
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.
- cat line — A cat line is a thin cable which is used with other equipment to move small parts of a rig or drill string.
- catiline — Latin name Lucius Sergius Catilina. ?108–62 bc, Roman politician: organized an unsuccessful conspiracy against Cicero (63–62)
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- cd tilde — /C-D til-d*/ To go home. From the Unix C shell and Korn-shell command "cd ~", which takes one to one's "$HOME" directory. "cd" with no arguments does the same thing.
- celerity — rapidity; swiftness; speed
- celibate — Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
- cellists — Plural form of cellist.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- centinel — Obsolete spelling of sentinel.
- chainlet — a small chain of hotels, shops, etc
- chatline — People phone in to chatlines to have conversations with other people who have also phoned in.
- chestily — in a self-important and arrogant manner
- chicklet — A small or young chick.
- chillest — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- chipotle — a smoked and dried jalapeno chilli pepper that is used in Mexican dishes
- chlorite — any of a group of green soft secondary minerals consisting of the hydrated silicates of aluminium, iron, and magnesium in monoclinic crystalline form: common in metamorphic rocks
- ciliated — possessing or relating to cilia
- ciliates — Plural form of ciliate.
- cimolite — a soft, clayey mineral of white, grey, or reddish coloration
- circlets — Plural form of circlet.
- circulet — Obsolete form of circlet.
- citadels — Plural form of citadel.
- citeable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- clarinet — A clarinet is a musical instrument of the woodwind family in the shape of a pipe. You play the clarinet by blowing into it and covering and uncovering the holes with your fingers.
- clavinet — An electrophonic keyboard instrument, an electronically amplified clavichord with a distinctive bright staccato sound.
- cleating — a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support: He nailed cleats into the sides of the bookcase to keep the supports from slipping.
- clefting — (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.