8-letter words containing t, o, l, p
- pull out — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pulmotor — an apparatus for pumping oxygen into the lungs during artificial respiration
- pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- roll top — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
- roll-top — made with a flexible top of parallel slats that slides back
- sculptor — artist who sculpts
- shoplift — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- shoptalk — the specialized vocabulary having to do with work or a field of work: I don't understand electronics shoptalk.
- 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.
- sleepout — a place, such as an outbuilding or porch, used for sleeping away from the main building
- slip out — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- slip top — the end of a slip stem on a spoon.
- slipknot — a knot that slips easily along the cord or line around which it is made.
- slop out — (of prisoners) to empty chamber pots and collect water for washing
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- spotless — free from any spot, stain, etc.; immaculately clean: a spotless kitchen.
- stolport — short take-off and landing airport: an airport designed for aircraft that can do short take-offs and landings and only require a short runway
- stolypin — Petr Arkadievich. 1863–1911, Russian conservative statesman: prime minister (1906–11). He instituted agrarian reforms but was ruthless in suppressing rebellion: assassinated
- stop log — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- stopless — not having any stops, continuous
- sub-plot — minor, secondary storyline
- tabletop — a surface forming or suggesting the top of a table.
- talapoin — a small, yellowish guenon monkey, Micropithecus (Cercopithecus) talapoin, of western Africa.
- 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
- tarnopol — Ternopol.
- telecopy — a message or document sent by fax
- teleport — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
- teleshop — to engage in teleshopping.
- 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
- ternopol — a city in W Ukraine: formerly in Poland.
- the flop — the first three community cards dealt face-up in a round of any of several varieties of poker, including Texas hold 'em
- the loop — the main business and shopping district in downtown Chicago
- the plow — the constellation Ursa Major
- thiophil — having an attraction to sulphur
- tholepin — thole1
- thropple — the windpipe or throat
- tilt-top — designating a table, stand, etc. designed so that the top, hinged to a pedestal, can be tipped to a vertical position
- tiraspol — a city in E Moldavia (Moldova), NW of Odessa.
- toe clip — a device attached to a bicycle pedal that grips the front part of the rider's shoe to keep the foot from slipping off the pedal.
- toeplate — a metal reinforcement of the part of the sole of a shoe or boot underneath the toes
- top kill — a technique in which a heavy fluid, usually drilling mud, is pumped into a leaking oil well to stop the flow of oil: The top kill is underway, but success remains uncertain as engineers desperately pump mud into the damaged blowout preventer.
- top plug — A top plug is a rubber seal in the casing string, which stops the fluid used in drilling from contaminating cement slurry.
- top-hole — first-rate.
- topalgia — pain restricted to a particular spot: a neurotic or hysterical symptom
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.