8-letter words containing t, a, b, l
- fabulate — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
- faltboat — a small boat having a collapsible wooden frame covered with waterproof cloth or plastic.
- fan belt — (in automotive vehicles) a belt, driven by the crankshaft of an engine, that turns a fan for drawing cooling air through the radiator.
- fastball — a pitch thrown at or near a pitcher's maximum velocity.
- fat lamb — a lamb bred for its tender meat, esp for export trade
- fittable — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- flat bug — any of numerous flattened bugs of the family Aradidae, inhabiting the underside of bark and feeding on fungi.
- flatback — a short name for the flatback turtle, Natator depressa, which is native to Australasia and characterized by the flatness of its back
- flatbeds — Plural form of flatbed.
- flatboat — a large, flat-bottomed boat for use in shallow water, especially on rivers.
- flaubert — Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1821–80, French novelist.
- fleabite — the bite of a flea.
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- foldboat — faltboat.
- football — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- gettable — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- giftable — suitable for a gift.
- glabrate — Zoology. glabrous.
- gustable — Having a taste; capable of being tasted.
- hability — Obsolete form of ability.
- habitual — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- halibuts — Plural form of halibut.
- hateable — meriting hatred or loathing.
- heatable — Capable of being heated.
- hittable — (of a ball or pitch) capable of being hit
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- imitable — capable or worthy of being imitated: She has many good, imitable qualities.
- instable — not stable; unstable.
- istanbul — a port in NW Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus: built by Constantine I on the site of ancient Byzantium; capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and of the Ottoman Empire; capital removed to Ankara 1923.
- jailbait — a girl with whom sexual intercourse is punishable as statutory rape because she is under the legal age of consent.
- jubilant — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilate — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- keelboat — a roughly built, shallow freight boat, having a keel to permit sailing into the wind.
- lab coat — long white garment worn in laboratory
- labiated — having a lip or lips
- labiates — Plural form of labiate.
- lability — apt or likely to change.
- laborist — A physician who aids labor and delivery but does not provide prenatal care.
- laborite — a member of a political party promoting the interests of labor.
- labornet — An IGC network serving groups, unions and labour advocates interested in information sharing and collaboration with the intent of enhancing the human rights and economic justice of workers. Issues covered include workplace and community health and safety issues, trade issues and international union solidarity and collaboration.
- lag bolt — lag screw
- lambaste — to beat or whip severely.
- lambasts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambast.
- lamberts — Plural form of lambert.
- lap belt — (in a motor vehicle) a seat belt secured to the framework of a seat and fastening across the lap of a driver or a passenger.
- layabout — a lazy or idle person; loafer.
- lettable — able to be let or rented