8-letter words containing l, i, t, e
- antilife — opposed to living in harmony with the natural order
- antilles — main island group of the West Indies, including all but the Bahamas
- antimale — opposed to men
- antipole — the opposite pole
- antliate — having an antlia
- araldite — a strong epoxy resin best known as a glue
- arillate — having an aril.
- armalite — a lightweight high-velocity rifle of various calibres, capable of automatic and semiautomatic operation
- arterial — Arterial means involving or relating to your arteries and the movement of blood through your body.
- articled — In Britain, someone who is articled to a firm of lawyers or accountants is employed by the firm and is training to become qualified.
- articles — legal training
- astilbes — Plural form of astilbe.
- ateliers — Plural form of atelier.
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- athletic — Athletic means relating to athletes and athletics.
- auntlike — similar to or like an aunt
- availeth — Archaic third-person singular form of avail.
- aventail — the movable front flap on a helmet
- backlite — (in automotive styling) the rear window of a vehicle.
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- bailment — a contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose
- bakelite — Bakelite is a type of hard plastic that was used in the past for making things such as telephones and radios.
- balletic — If you describe someone's movements as balletic, you mean that they have some of the graceful qualities of ballet.
- balmiest — Superlative form of balmy.
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- battaile — (obsolete spelling of, battle).
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- bedlight — a bedlamp.
- bedquilt — a padded bedcover
- beetling — a heavy hammering or ramming instrument, usually of wood, used to drive wedges, force down paving stones, compress loose earth, etc.
- belitong — Billiton.
- belittle — If you belittle someone or something, you say or imply that they are unimportant or not very good.
- belitung — island of Indonesia, in the Java Sea, between Borneo & Sumatra: 1,866 sq mi (4,833 sq km)
- beltline — a line separating a car's windows from the main body
- beltrami — Eugenio [e-oo-je-nyaw] /ˌɛ uˈdʒɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1900, Italian mathematician.
- biacetyl — a liquid with a strong, butter-like odour
- bidental — a sacred place where lightning has struck
- billeted — lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.
- bilobate — divided into or having two lobes
- bistable — having two stable states
- biteable — denoting something which can be bitten
- bitterly — You use bitterly when you are describing an attitude which involves strong, unpleasant emotions such as anger or dislike.
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- blairite — of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bletilla — any of several terrestrial orchids of the genus Bletilla, of eastern Asia, as B. striata, having terminal clusters of showy purple or white flowers.
- bletting — the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained.
- blighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.