8-letter words containing r, o, l, e, t
- 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
- petronel — a firearm of large calibre used in the 16th and early 17th centuries, esp by cavalry soldiers
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- plectron — plectrum.
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- polestar — Polaris.
- pollster — a person whose occupation is the taking of public-opinion polls.
- polluter — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- popstrel — a young, attractive female pop star
- portable — portability
- porterly — pertaining to or characteristic of a porter
- porthole — a round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light. Compare port4 (def 1).
- portless — a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- potholer — an explorer of caves; spelunker.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- prostyle — (of a classical temple) having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.
- rat-hole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.
- realtone — a ringtone for a mobile phone that uses an original sound recording rather than an electronic tone
- rebottle — to bottle (a liquid or substance) again
- reclothe — to clothe (someone or something) again or provide new clothing for (someone)
- recollet — member of a particular Franciscan order
- rectoral — of or relating to God's rule
- redolent — having a pleasant odor; fragrant.
- reel out — to unwind from a reel
- regolith — mantle rock.
- relation — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- relocate — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- remotely — far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
- resolute — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
- restoral — restoration.
- retailor — to make (clothing) suitable for a new person or purpose by changing the details
- revolted — to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.
- revolute — rolled backward or downward; rolled backward at the tip or margin, as a leaf.
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- rolamite — (sometimes initial capital letter) an almost frictionless mechanical device consisting of a flexible metal band formed in an S-shaped loop around moving rollers.
- role set — the set of roles associated with a single social stratum.
- rondelet — a short poem of fixed form, consisting of five lines on two rhymes, and having the opening words or word used after the second and fifth lines as an unrhymed refrain.
- rootedly — in a rooted manner
- rootless — having no roots.
- rootlike — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- rosulate — forming a rosette or rosettes.
- roulette — a game of chance played at a table marked off with numbers from 1 to 36, one or two zeros, and several other sections affording the players a variety of betting opportunities, and having in the center a revolving, dishlike device (roulette wheel) into which a small ball is spun to come to rest finally in one of the 37 or 38 compartments, indicating the winning number and its characteristics, as odd or even, red or black, and between 1 and 18 or 19 and 36.
- roundlet — a small circle or circular object.
- rule out — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- sectoral — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- selector — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.