8-letter words containing l, p, t
- pyelitis — inflammation of the pelvis or outlet of the kidney.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- rataplan — a sound of or as of the beating of a drum.
- repletes — abundantly supplied or provided; filled (usually followed by with): a speech replete with sentimentality.
- reptiles — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
- reptilia — the class comprising the reptiles.
- resculpt — to sculpt again
- roll top — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
- roll-top — made with a flexible top of parallel slats that slides back
- salt pan — an undrained natural depression, as a crater or tectonic basin, in which the evaporation of water leaves a deposit of salt.
- salt pit — a pit where salt is obtained.
- satrapal — relating to a satrap or satrapy
- sceptral — of, resembling, or relating to a sceptre
- sculpsit — he engraved, carved, or sculptured (it); she engraved, carved, or sculptured (it). Abbreviation: sc.
- sculptor — artist who sculpts
- septical — septic
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- septleva — (in the card game of basset) an amount seven times as high as the player's original stake
- septuple — sevenfold; consisting of seven parts.
- sextuple — consisting of six parts; sexpartite.
- sextuply — to offer a rejoinder
- shoplift — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- shoptalk — the specialized vocabulary having to do with work or a field of work: I don't understand electronics shoptalk.
- simplest — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simplist — a herbalist
- slab top — a top, as to a table, formed from a slab of marble or the like.
- slapshot — a very powerful, fast-moving shot of the puck on goal made with a full backswing of the stick and an extended follow-through.
- sleepout — a place, such as an outbuilding or porch, used for sleeping away from the main building
- slip out — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- slip top — the end of a slip stem on a spoon.
- slipknot — a knot that slips easily along the cord or line around which it is made.
- slop out — (of prisoners) to empty chamber pots and collect water for washing
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spaetzle — a dish consisting of lumps or threads made from a batter of flour, milk, eggs, and salt, usually poured through a coarse colander into boiling water, and then either drained and mixed in butter, lightly pan-fried, or added to sauces, stews, etc.
- spanglet — a little spangle
- sparklet — a small spark.
- spatfall — a mass of larvae on the sea bed
- spätlese — type of German wine, usually white
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- spilitic — relating to spilite
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spitball — a small ball or lump of chewed paper used as a missile.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splatter — an act or instance of splattering.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split up — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- split-up — the act of splitting.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.