8-letter words containing r, e, t, i, l
- toiletry — any article or preparation used in cleaning or grooming oneself, as soap or deodorant.
- 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.
- tortelli — pasta that is folded around a filling and boiled
- tractile — capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
- tramline — a streetcar system.
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- trebling — threefold; triple.
- treelike — a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- treenail — a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
- triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
- triazole — any of a group of four compounds containing three nitrogen and two carbon atoms arranged in a five-membered ring and having the formula C 2 H 3 N 3 .
- tribelet — a tribe having few members, especially one that is a component of a larger tribal organization.
- tricklet — a tiny trickle
- tricycle — a vehicle, especially one for children, having one large front wheel and two small rear wheels, propelled by foot pedals.
- triethyl — containing three ethyl groups.
- triflers — an article or thing of very little value.
- trilbies — feet
- 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.
- trilobed — trilobate.
- triolein — olein (def 1).
- 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
- triplite — a dark-brown, massive mineral, fluorophosphate of iron and manganese.
- trippler — a horse that moves at a tripple
- triskele — a symbolic figure consisting of three legs, arms, or branches radiating from a common center, as the device of Sicily and the Isle of Man.
- trivalve — having three valves, as a shell.
- troilite — a mineral, iron sulfide, FeS, occurring in meteorites.
- trollies — trolley car.
- trotline — a strong fishing line strung across a stream, or deep into a river, having individual hooks attached by smaller lines at intervals.
- try line — the line behind which the ball must be placed to score a try in a rugby match
- twiddler — to turn about or play with lightly or idly, especially with the fingers; twirl.
- ulterior — being beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept concealed: ulterior motives.
- underlit — lacking adequate light.
- uplifter — a person or thing that uplifts.
- utilizer — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- varietal — of, pertaining to, designating, or characteristic of a variety.
- verligte — (during apartheid) a person of any of the White political parties who supported liberal trends in government policy
- vertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- verticil — a whorl or circle, as of leaves or hairs, arranged around a point on an axis.
- vertisol — a clay-rich soil in which deep cracks form during the dry season.
- virulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- voltaire — (François Marie Arouet) 1694–1778, French philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist.
- waterily — In a watery manner.
- whistler — James (Abbott) McNeill [muh k-neel] /məkˈnil/ (Show IPA), 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.
- whittler — to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.
- willaert — Adrian [ey-dree-uh n,, ah-dree-ahn] /ˈeɪ dri ən,, ˈɑ driˌɑn/ (Show IPA), c1480–1562, Flemish composer.
- winterly — of, relating to, or occurring in winter; hibernal.
- wristlet — a band worn around the wrist, especially to protect it from cold.