8-letter words containing l, p, t
- the flop — the first three community cards dealt face-up in a round of any of several varieties of poker, including Texas hold 'em
- the loop — the main business and shopping district in downtown Chicago
- the lump — self-employed workers in the building trade considered collectively, esp with reference to tax and national insurance evasion
- the pill — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- the plow — the constellation Ursa Major
- thiophil — having an attraction to sulphur
- thlipsis — compression or constriction by an outside cause, esp of the blood vessels or another part of the body
- tholepin — thole1
- thrapple — the throat or windpipe
- thropple — the windpipe or throat
- tie clip — clasp for securing a necktie
- tie plug — a wooden plug driven into the hole left in a tie when a spike has been withdrawn.
- tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
- tilt-top — designating a table, stand, etc. designed so that the top, hinged to a pedestal, can be tipped to a vertical position
- tiraspol — a city in E Moldavia (Moldova), NW of Odessa.
- toe clip — a device attached to a bicycle pedal that grips the front part of the rider's shoe to keep the foot from slipping off the pedal.
- toeplate — a metal reinforcement of the part of the sole of a shoe or boot underneath the toes
- top kill — a technique in which a heavy fluid, usually drilling mud, is pumped into a leaking oil well to stop the flow of oil: The top kill is underway, but success remains uncertain as engineers desperately pump mud into the damaged blowout preventer.
- top plug — A top plug is a rubber seal in the casing string, which stops the fluid used in drilling from contaminating cement slurry.
- top-hole — first-rate.
- topalgia — pain restricted to a particular spot: a neurotic or hysterical symptom
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- topliner — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.
- toplofty — condescending; haughty.
- topolect — the dialects of a specific area collectively, constituting a variety of a language.
- topology — the study of those properties of geometric forms that remain invariant under certain transformations, as bending or stretching.
- topolski — Feliks (fiːlɪks). 1907–89, British painter, born in Poland; best known for his sketches and murals, esp for Memoir of the Century (1975–89) painted on viaduct arches on London's South Bank
- topsmelt — a silversides, Atherinops affinis, of waters along the Pacific coast of North America: valued as a food fish.
- torpidly — inactive or sluggish.
- towplane — an aeroplane that tows gliders
- trampled — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- trapball — an old game in which a ball placed on the hollowed end of a trap is thrown into the air by striking the other end of the trap with a bat and then driven to a distance with the bat.
- trapfall — a trapdoor that opens under the feet
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- triapsal — (of a church) having three apses
- triglyph — a structural member of a Doric frieze, separating two consecutive metopes, and consisting typically of a rectangular block with two vertical grooves or glyphs, and two chamfers or half grooves at the sides, together counting as a third glyph, and leaving three flat vertical bands on the face of the block.
- tripedal — having three feet.
- triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
- triple a — anti-aircraft artillery
- triplets — three children born at the same time to the same mother
- tripling — threefold; consisting of three parts: a triple knot.
- triplite — a dark-brown, massive mineral, fluorophosphate of iron and manganese.
- triploid — having a chromosome number that is three times the basic or haploid number.
- tripodal — pertaining to or having the form of a tripod.
- trippler — a horse that moves at a tripple
- trollope — Anthony, 1815–82, English novelist.
- tropical — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- troupial — any of several American birds of the family Icteridae, especially one with brilliantly colored plumage, as Icterus icterus, of South America.
- tulipant — a turban
- tumpline — a strap or sling passed around the chest or forehead to help support a pack carried on a person's back.