8-letter words containing p, t, i, l
- flip-out — to toss or put in motion with a sudden impulse, as with a snap of a finger and thumb, especially so as to cause to turn over in the air: to flip a coin.
- flip-top — (of a can) having a top with a tab or ring that when pulled up or off exposes a precut hole or peels off the entire lid.
- flippant — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- flypitch — an area for unlicensed stalls at markets
- foul tip — a pitched ball that glances off the bat into foul territory, usually near the catcher, ruled a strike if the catcher catches it before it hits the ground, otherwise ruled an ordinary foul ball.
- gallipot — a type of turpentine exuded on the stems of certain species of pine.
- glyptics — the act or process of producing glyptic ornaments.
- haptical — of or relating to the sense of touch: the haptic sensation of holding a real book in your hands.
- helicopt — to fly or transport using a helicopter
- heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- helistop — a heliport.
- herptile — A reptile or amphibian.
- hilltops — Plural form of hilltop.
- holoptic — of, relating to, or having eyes that meet at the top of the head
- hoplites — Plural form of hoplite.
- hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
- implants — Plural form of implant.
- implicit — implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.
- impolite — not polite or courteous; discourteous; rude: an impolite reply.
- insculpt — engraved
- interpel — (transitive, obsolete) To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with.
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- isopleth — a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- lapactic — purgative; cathartic.
- lapidate — to pelt with stones.
- lapidist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lepidote — covered with scurfy scales or scaly spots.
- leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
- leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
- let slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- lickspit — a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
- light up — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- lilliput — an imaginary country inhabited by people about 6 inches (15 cm) tall, described in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
- lime pit — (in tanning) a pit containing lime in which hides are placed to remove the hair
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- linotype — to typeset on a Linotype machine.
- liparite — a light-coloured, igneous rock made of quartz
- lipchitz — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1891–1973, U.S. sculptor, born in Lithuania.
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- lipocyte — fat cell.
- lipomata — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lipstick — a crayonlike oil-based cosmetic used in coloring the lips, usually in a tubular container.
- lisptalk — "Concurrent Programming Language Lisptalk", C. Li, SIGPLAN Notices 23(4):71-80 (Apr 1988).
- listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- lopolith — a mass of igneous rock similar to a laccolith but concave downward rather than upward.
- lopstick — a tree trimmed of all but its topmost branches to serve as a landmark or marker.