8-letter words containing t, a, l, i, e
- tailored — (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- tailpipe — an exhaust pipe located at the rear of a motor vehicle or aircraft powered by an internal-combustion engine.
- tailrace — the race, flume, or channel leading away from a waterwheel or the like.
- take ill — to be annoyed or offended at
- taleggio — a square Italian soft cheese with a salt-covered rind
- taliesin — flourished a.d. c550, Welsh bard.
- taligent — A company founded jointly by Apple and IBM in March 1992. HP announced in January, 1994 that it would buy a 15% stake in Taligent. They are working on an "object-oriented operating system", due to be finished sometime in 1995. However, various independent pieces of Taligent will likely appear to be used with other operating systems, e.g. IBM's WorkplaceOS. Pink is an older name for Taligent, dating back to work that Apple did before the formation of Taligent.
- talktime — the amount of time for which a subscriber can use a mobile-phone network
- talliate — to levy a tax upon; to tallage
- tallises — a shawllike garment of wool, silk, or the like, with fringes, or zizith, at the four corners, worn around the shoulders by Orthodox and Conservative (sometimes also Reform) Jews, as during the morning service.
- tangible — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- tealight — small candle floated in water
- teiglach — a confection consisting of small balls of dough boiled in a syrup of honey, sugar, and spices.
- tel aviv — a city in W central Israel: one of the centers of Jewish immigration following World War II.
- tenaille — a low outwork in the main ditch between two bastions
- tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
- teocalli — a ceremonial structure of the Aztecs, consisting of a truncated terraced pyramid supporting a temple.
- teraglin — an edible marine fish, Zeluco atelodus, of Australia which has fine scales and is blue in colour
- terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- thalline — a chemical compound used for medicinal purposes
- thetical — positive; dogmatic.
- thiazole — a colorless, slightly water-miscible liquid, C 3 H 3 NS, having a disagreeable odor.
- thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
- ticklace — (in Newfoundland) a kittiwake
- tideland — land alternately exposed and covered by the ordinary ebb and flow of the tide.
- tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
- tillable — able to be tilled; arable.
- tiltable — to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.
- timbales — a pair of single-headed, cylindrical drums joined by a frame and played with drumsticks, used, esp. originally, in Latin American dance music
- time lag — A time lag is a fairly long interval of time between one event and another related event that happens after it.
- time-lag — the period of time between two closely related events, phenomena, etc., as between stimulus and response or between cause and effect: a time-lag between the declaration of war and full war production.
- tirolean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tyrol or its inhabitants.
- tithable — subject to the payment of tithes.
- tonalite — an igneous rock found in the Italian Alps
- totalize — to make total; combine into a total.
- tractile — capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
- tramline — a streetcar system.
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- 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 .
- 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.
- tripedal — having three feet.
- triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
- triple a — anti-aircraft artillery
- trivalve — having three valves, as a shell.
- twinleaf — a North American herb, Jeffersonia diphylla, having a single white blossom and leaves divided in two.
- ultimate — last; furthest or farthest; ending a process or series: the ultimate point in a journey; the ultimate style in hats.
- untailed — tailless; not having a tail; with the tail removed
- valentia — a port in E Spain, capital of Valencia province, on the Mediterranean: the third largest city in Spain; capital of the Moorish kingdom of Valencia (1021–1238); university (1501). Pop: 780 653 (2003 est)