8-letter words containing m, l, t
- telefilm — a motion picture intended primarily to be shown on television.
- telegram — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
- telemann — Georg Philipp [gey-awrk fee-lip,, fil-ip] /geɪˌɔrk ˈfi lɪp,, ˈfɪl ɪp/ (Show IPA), 1681–1767, German composer.
- telemark — a turn in which a skier places one ski far forward of the other and gradually angles the tip of the forward ski inward in the direction to be turned.
- teleseme — an old-fashioned electric signalling system
- telomere — the segment of DNA that occurs at the ends of chromosomes.
- 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.
- temulent — inebriated
- terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- termless — not limited; unconditional.
- thalamic — Anatomy. the middle part of the diencephalon through which sensory impulses pass to reach the cerebral cortex.
- thalamus — Anatomy. the middle part of the diencephalon through which sensory impulses pass to reach the cerebral cortex.
- thallium — a soft, malleable, rare, bluish-white metallic element: used in the manufacture of alloys and, in the form of its salts, in rodenticides. Symbol: Tl; atomic weight: 204.37; atomic number: 81; specific gravity: 11.85 at 20°C.
- the lamb — a title given to Christ in the New Testament
- the lump — self-employed workers in the building trade considered collectively, esp with reference to tax and national insurance evasion
- themself — Themself is sometimes used instead of 'themselves' when it clearly refers to a singular subject. Some people consider this use to be incorrect.
- thermals — Also, thermic. of, relating to, or caused by heat or temperature: thermal capacity.
- thraldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
- tidemill — a watermill powered by the force of the tide
- tillicum — (in the Pacific Northwest) a friend
- timbales — a pair of single-headed, cylindrical drums joined by a frame and played with drumsticks, used, esp. originally, in Latin American dance music
- time lag — A time lag is a fairly long interval of time between one event and another related event that happens after it.
- time-lag — the period of time between two closely related events, phenomena, etc., as between stimulus and response or between cause and effect: a time-lag between the declaration of war and full war production.
- timeless — without beginning or end; eternal; everlasting.
- timelier — occurring at a suitable time; seasonable; opportune; well-timed: a timely warning.
- timeline — a linear representation of important events in the order in which they occurred.
- to blame — If someone is to blame for something bad that has happened, they are responsible for causing it.
- toilsome — characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.
- tomalley — the liver of a lobster.
- tombless — without a tomb or tombs
- tomblike — an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
- ton-mile — a unit of freight transportation measurement equivalent to a ton of freight transported one mile.
- toolroom — a room, as in a machine shop, in which tools are stored, repaired, produced, etc.
- topsmelt — a silversides, Atherinops affinis, of waters along the Pacific coast of North America: valued as a food fish.
- torminal — of or relating to tormina
- totalism — totalitarianism.
- trailman — trailsman.
- tramadol — an opioid analgesic, C 16 H 25 NO 2 , used to treat moderate to severe pain.
- tramline — a streetcar system.
- trammels — hindrance to free action or movement
- trampled — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- trembled — to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
- trembler — a person or thing that trembles.
- trembles — to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
- tremblor — a person or thing that trembles.
- trialism — the belief that man consists of body, soul, and spirit
- trilemma — a situation, analogous to a dilemma, in which there are three almost equally undesirable alternatives: His trilemma consisted in not knowing whether to acknowledge receipt, deny it, or simply leave.
- trillium — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trillium, of the lily family, having a whorl of three leaves from the center of which rises a solitary, three-petalled flower.
- trimodal — (of a distribution) having three modes.