8-letter words containing t, a, l, u
- patulent — patulous
- patulous — open; gaping; expanded.
- paulette — a female given name: derived from Paul.
- peculate — to appropriate or embezzle (public money)
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- petalous — having petals.
- petaluma — a city in W California, N of San Francisco.
- petulant — sulky or irritable
- pictural — a picture
- placitum — a plea made in court on behalf of a person or group
- plan out — organize in detail
- plantule — an embryonic plant in the act of germination
- plate up — to put food on a plate, ready for serving
- plateaux — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- plateful — the amount that a plate will hold.
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- platypus — a small, aquatic, egg-laying monotreme, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, of Australia and Tasmania, having webbed feet, a tail like that of a beaver, a sensitive bill resembling that of a duck, and, in adult males, venom-injecting spurs on the ankles of the hind limbs, used primarily for fighting with other males during the breeding season.
- plaudite — a request for applause following a show or production
- plaudits — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- play out — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playsuit — a sports costume for women and children, usually consisting of shorts and a shirt, worn as beachwear, for tennis, etc.
- pluck at — If you pluck at something, you take it between your fingers and pull it sharply but gently.
- plug hat — plug (def 19).
- plumbate — a compound formed from lead oxide
- plutarch — a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
- populate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- pull tab — a metal tab or ring that is pulled to uncover the precut opening in a can or other container.
- pulpital — relating to the pulpit
- pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- punctual — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- pustular — of, relating to, or of the nature of pustules.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- 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.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- quetzals — Plural form of quetzal.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- quotable — able to be quoted or easily quoted, as by reason of effectiveness, succinctness, or the like: the most quotable book of the season.
- quotably — in a quotable manner
- rebuttal — an act of rebutting, as in a debate.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- requital — the act of requiting.
- resalute — to salute or greet again
- retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.