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8-letter words containing t, o, l, n

  • falconet — any of several small Asian falcons, especially of the genus Microhierax.
  • flatiron — a nonelectric iron with a flat bottom, heated for use in pressing clothes, cloth, etc.
  • flatlong — With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
  • flection — the act of bending.
  • flintoff — Andrew. born 1977, English cricketer; an all-rounder, he played 79 test matches for England (1998–2009)
  • floatant — a substance used in fly-fishing to help dry flies to float
  • floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
  • flouting — Openly disregard (a rule, law or convention).
  • flunkout — a person who has flunked out of school or a course.
  • fly into — If you fly into a bad temper or a panic, you suddenly become very angry or anxious and show this in your behaviour.
  • fontanel — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
  • footling — foolish; silly: ridiculous, footling remarks.
  • footlong — approximately one foot in length: Their specialty is footlong hotdogs.
  • fountful — full of springs or founts
  • frontals — Plural form of frontal.
  • frontlet — Also, frontal. a decorative band, ribbon, or the like, worn across the forehead: The princess wore a richly bejeweled frontlet.
  • galtonia — any plant of the bulbous genus Galtonia, esp G. candicans, with lanceolate leaves, drooping racemes of waxy white flowers, and a fragrant scent: family Liliaceae
  • gantlope — gauntlet2 .
  • gelation — the process of gelling.
  • glasnost — the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
  • gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
  • gluttons — Plural form of glutton.
  • gluttony — excessive eating and drinking.
  • goatling — a young goat
  • goldtone — gold-coloured
  • halation — a blurred effect around the edges of highlight areas in a photographic image caused by reflection and scattering of light through the emulsion from the back surface of the film support or plate.
  • halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
  • hamilton — William Hamilton
  • hazleton — a city in E Pennsylvania.
  • holstein — Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
  • honestly — in an honest manner.
  • horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
  • hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
  • hot line — a direct telecommunications link, as a telephone line or Teletype circuit, enabling immediate communication between heads of state in an international crisis: the hot line between Washington and Moscow.
  • hot link — a link between two files, as between a spreadsheet and a document, such that a change in one effects a change in the other.
  • hotelman — hotelkeeper.
  • hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
  • hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
  • ilkeston — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 37 270 (2001)
  • illation — the act of inferring.
  • in total — altogether
  • indolent — having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful: an indolent person.
  • inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
  • ink blot — a stain on paper, made by ink
  • inkblots — Plural form of inkblot.
  • inositol — Biochemistry. a compound, C 6 H 12 O 6 , derivative of cyclohexane, widely distributed in plants and seeds as phytin, and occurring in animal tissue and in urine: an essential growth factor for animal life, present in the vitamin B complex.
  • insolate — to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
  • insolent — boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.
  • intaglio — incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief.
  • interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
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