8-letter words containing t, e, l, n
- atonable — Capable of being atoned for.
- attently — attentive; intent.
- auntlike — similar to or like an aunt
- aurulent — Gold in color.
- aventail — the movable front flap on a helmet
- bailment — a contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose
- balconet — a small ornamental balcony which does not extend far beyond the window, essentially a guardrail
- ballonet — an air or gas compartment in a balloon or nonrigid airship, used to control buoyancy and shape
- bandelet — a small band of any kind, particularly one worn around the head
- beetling — a heavy hammering or ramming instrument, usually of wood, used to drive wedges, force down paving stones, compress loose earth, etc.
- belitong — Billiton.
- belitung — island of Indonesia, in the Java Sea, between Borneo & Sumatra: 1,866 sq mi (4,833 sq km)
- belmonte — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), 1893–1962, Spanish matador.
- belt man — a worker responsible for the inspection, maintenance, and repair of machine belts.
- beltline — a line separating a car's windows from the main body
- benfleet — a town in SE England, in S Essex on an inlet of the Thames estuary. Pop: 48 539 (2001)
- benthoal — relating to deep-sea plants and animals
- betelnut — the seed of the betel palm, chewed with betel leaves and lime by people in S and SE Asia as a digestive stimulant and narcotic
- bidental — a sacred place where lightning has struck
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blanquet — a variety of French pear
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bletting — the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained.
- bloncket — of a blue-grey colour
- blondest — (of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
- blunkett — David, Baron. born 1947, British Labour politician: home secretary (2001–04)
- bulletin — A bulletin is a short news report on the radio or television.
- buntline — one of several lines fastened to the foot of a square sail for hauling it up to the yard when furling
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- calanthe — any of various orchids of the genus Calanthe of the family Orchidaceae, found in tropical areas and having long-lasting yellow, white, or pink flowers
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- canticle — a nonmetrical hymn, derived from the Bible and used in the liturgy of certain Christian churches
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- cat line — A cat line is a thin cable which is used with other equipment to move small parts of a rig or drill string.
- cathleen — a female given name, Irish form of Catherine.
- catiline — Latin name Lucius Sergius Catilina. ?108–62 bc, Roman politician: organized an unsuccessful conspiracy against Cicero (63–62)
- centeral — Misspelling of central.
- centinel — Obsolete spelling of sentinel.
- centrale — (anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
- centuple — a hundred times as much or as many; hundredfold
- chainlet — a small chain of hotels, shops, etc
- chatline — People phone in to chatlines to have conversations with other people who have also phoned in.
- clap-net — a net, used esp by entomologists, that can be closed instantly by pulling a string
- clarinet — A clarinet is a musical instrument of the woodwind family in the shape of a pipe. You play the clarinet by blowing into it and covering and uncovering the holes with your fingers.