8-letter words containing r, i, t, l
- outliner — A computer application that produces a hierarchically arranged outline of the logical structure of a text document.
- outliver — (obsolete) A survivor.
- outrival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- outwhirl — to surpass at whirling
- overtoil — to work too hard
- parietal — Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- petrillo — James Caesar, 1892–1984, U.S. labor leader: president of the American Federation of Musicians 1940–58.
- petrolic — of, relating to, containing, or obtained from petroleum
- philtrum — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- pictural — a picture
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- pillaret — a small pillar.
- pillwort — a small Eurasian water fern, Pilularia globulifera, with globular spore-producing bodies and grasslike leaves
- plaister — plaster.
- plentier — a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time.
- pliotron — any hot-cathode vacuum tube having an anode and one or more grids.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prelimit — to limit within bounds beforehand: The chairman prelimited his speech to 10 minutes.
- presplit — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- pretrial — a proceeding held by a judge, arbitrator, etc., before a trial to simplify the issues of law and fact and stipulate certain matters between the parties, in order to expedite justice and curtail costs at the trial.
- prettily — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- priestly — of or relating to a priest; sacerdotal: priestly vestments.
- primatal — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- pulpiter — a preacher
- pulpitry — the art of delivering sermons
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quilters — Plural form of quilter.
- rallyist — a person who participates in automobile rallies.
- rat tail — a hair style characterized by a long thin tail of hair growing at the back of the head
- rat-tail — grenadier (def 4).
- rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- rattling — that rattles: a rattling door.
- realties — real property or real estate.
- redistil — to distil again, usually to purify further
- redlight — a red lamp, used as a traffic signal to mean “stop.”.
- refilter — to filter again
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- regolith — mantle rock.
- relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- relation — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- relative — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- relisten — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.