8-letter words containing l, p, t
- splutter — to talk rapidly and somewhat incoherently, as when confused, excited, or embarrassed: When pushed for an explanation, he always spluttered.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- spotless — free from any spot, stain, etc.; immaculately clean: a spotless kitchen.
- sprattle — a struggle; fight.
- st. paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starlisp — *LISP
- steepled — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- stepless — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- steplike — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stippled — A surface that is stippled is covered with tiny spots.
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- stipules — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stolport — short take-off and landing airport: an airport designed for aircraft that can do short take-offs and landings and only require a short runway
- stolypin — Petr Arkadievich. 1863–1911, Russian conservative statesman: prime minister (1906–11). He instituted agrarian reforms but was ruthless in suppressing rebellion: assassinated
- stop log — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- stopless — not having any stops, continuous
- stsc apl — Implementation of APL by Scientific Time-Sharing Corporation
- stumpily — in a stumpy manner
- stupidly — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- sub-plot — minor, secondary storyline
- subplant — 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.
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- sweetlip — any of various Australian fish with large lips
- symplast — the continuous system of protoplasts, linked by plasmodesmata and bounded by the cell wall
- tabletop — a surface forming or suggesting the top of a table.
- taillamp — the rear light of a motor vehicle
- tailpipe — an exhaust pipe located at the rear of a motor vehicle or aircraft powered by an internal-combustion engine.
- tailspin — spin (def 23).
- talapoin — a small, yellowish guenon monkey, Micropithecus (Cercopithecus) talapoin, of western Africa.
- tap bell — a signal bell giving a single ring, as one announcing the approach to a certain floor of an elevator.
- tap bolt — a bolt for driving into a tapped hole in metal and that can be held in place without a nut.
- tapaculo — a small passeriform bird, Pteroptochus albicollis (megapodius), with short wings and cocked tail, native to South America
- tapeable — capable of being taped
- tapeless — without tape
- tarnopol — Ternopol.
- telecopy — a message or document sent by fax
- telepath — a student of or believer in telepathy.
- teleplay — a play written or adapted for broadcast on television.
- teleport — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
- teleshop — to engage in teleshopping.
- teletype — (lowercase) a network of teletypewriters with their connecting lines, switchboards, etc.
- template — a pattern, mold, or the like, usually consisting of a thin plate of wood or metal, serving as a gauge or guide in mechanical work.
- temporal — of, relating to, or situated near the temple or a temporal bone.
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
- ternopol — a city in W Ukraine: formerly in Poland.
- tetrapla — a book containing versions of the same text in four languages