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8-letter words containing p, l, o, t, i

  • slipknot — a knot that slips easily along the cord or line around which it is made.
  • soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
  • spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
  • stolypin — Petr Arkadievich. 1863–1911, Russian conservative statesman: prime minister (1906–11). He instituted agrarian reforms but was ruthless in suppressing rebellion: assassinated
  • talapoin — a small, yellowish guenon monkey, Micropithecus (Cercopithecus) talapoin, of western Africa.
  • thiophil — having an attraction to sulphur
  • tholepin — thole1
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • torpidly — inactive or sluggish.
  • triploid — having a chromosome number that is three times the basic or haploid number.
  • tripodal — pertaining to or having the form of a tripod.
  • 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.
  • unpolite — impolite.
  • unspoilt — a simple past tense and past participle of spoil.
  • zampolit — (historical) A deputy commander for political affairs in the Soviet Union.
  • zopilote — a small American black vulture
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