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8-letter words containing t, a, l, p

  • slab top — a top, as to a table, formed from a slab of marble or the like.
  • slapshot — a very powerful, fast-moving shot of the puck on goal made with a full backswing of the stick and an extended follow-through.
  • spaetzle — a dish consisting of lumps or threads made from a batter of flour, milk, eggs, and salt, usually poured through a coarse colander into boiling water, and then either drained and mixed in butter, lightly pan-fried, or added to sauces, stews, etc.
  • spanglet — a little spangle
  • sparklet — a small spark.
  • spatfall — a mass of larvae on the sea bed
  • spätlese — type of German wine, usually white
  • spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
  • spitball — a small ball or lump of chewed paper used as a missile.
  • splatter — an act or instance of splattering.
  • spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
  • sprattle — a struggle; fight.
  • st. paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
  • stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
  • stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
  • starlisp — *LISP
  • stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
  • stsc apl — Implementation of APL by Scientific Time-Sharing Corporation
  • subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
  • supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • symplast — the continuous system of protoplasts, linked by plasmodesmata and bounded by the cell wall
  • tabletop — a surface forming or suggesting the top of a table.
  • taillamp — the rear light of a motor vehicle
  • tailpipe — an exhaust pipe located at the rear of a motor vehicle or aircraft powered by an internal-combustion engine.
  • tailspin — spin (def 23).
  • talapoin — a small, yellowish guenon monkey, Micropithecus (Cercopithecus) talapoin, of western Africa.
  • tap bell — a signal bell giving a single ring, as one announcing the approach to a certain floor of an elevator.
  • tap bolt — a bolt for driving into a tapped hole in metal and that can be held in place without a nut.
  • tapaculo — a small passeriform bird, Pteroptochus albicollis (megapodius), with short wings and cocked tail, native to South America
  • tapeable — capable of being taped
  • tapeless — without tape
  • tarnopol — Ternopol.
  • telepath — a student of or believer in telepathy.
  • teleplay — a play written or adapted for broadcast on television.
  • template — a pattern, mold, or the like, usually consisting of a thin plate of wood or metal, serving as a gauge or guide in mechanical work.
  • temporal — of, relating to, or situated near the temple or a temporal bone.
  • teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
  • tetrapla — a book containing versions of the same text in four languages
  • thrapple — the throat or windpipe
  • tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
  • tiraspol — a city in E Moldavia (Moldova), NW of Odessa.
  • toeplate — a metal reinforcement of the part of the sole of a shoe or boot underneath the toes
  • topalgia — pain restricted to a particular spot: a neurotic or hysterical symptom
  • towplane — an aeroplane that tows gliders
  • trampled — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
  • trapball — an old game in which a ball placed on the hollowed end of a trap is thrown into the air by striking the other end of the trap with a bat and then driven to a distance with the bat.
  • trapfall — a trapdoor that opens under the feet
  • trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
  • triapsal — (of a church) having three apses
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