8-letter words containing t, o, l
- bootlace — A bootlace is a long thin cord which is used to fasten a boot.
- bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
- bootless — of little or no use; vain; fruitless
- bootlick — to seek favour by servile or ingratiating behaviour towards (someone, esp someone in authority); toady
- bothwell — Earl of, title of James Hepburn. 1535–78, Scottish nobleman; third husband of Mary Queen of Scots. He is generally considered to have instigated the murder of Darnley (1567)
- bottle-o — a dealer in empty bottles
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- bowl out — In a sport such as cricket, if a team is bowled out, each player in that team has had to stop batting and leave the pitch and there is nobody left to bat.
- box bolt — a rod-shaped bolt of rectangular section for fastening a door or the like, attached to the inside of the door at the edge and sliding into a socket on the frame.
- box plot — a graphic representation of a distribution by a rectangle, the ends of which mark the maximum and minimum values, and in which the median and first and third quartiles are marked by lines parallel to the ends.
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- bro talk — Māori English
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brooklet — a small brook
- bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
- bullpout — a type of fish
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- butthole — anus.
- 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.
- cachalot — sperm whale
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- califont — a gas water heater
- call out — If you call someone out, you order or request that they come to help, especially in an emergency.
- call-out — an act or instance of calling out.
- callisto — a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera. Zeus then set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- cameltoe — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
- cantonal — Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.
- capitols — Plural form of capitol.
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carlotta — a feminine name
- cartload — the amount a cart can hold
- castilho — Antonio Feliciano de [ahn-taw-n-yoo fuh-lees-yah-noo] /ɑ̃ˈtɔˈn yu fə lisˈyɑ nu/ (Show IPA), 1800–75, Portuguese poet.
- castillo — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Cánovas del Castillo del Rey) 1908–1984, Spanish fashion designer.
- catalogs — Plural form of catalog.
- catechol — a colourless crystalline phenol found in resins and lignins; 1,2-dihydroxybenzene. It is used as a photographic developer. Formula: C6H4(OH)2
- cathodal — (biochemistry) Attracted towards a cathode.
- catholic — The Catholic Church is the branch of the Christian Church that accepts the Pope as its leader and is based in the Vatican in Rome.
- catolyte — the part of the electrolyte that surrounds the cathode in an electrolytic cell
- cattalos — Plural form of cattalo.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- cetology — the branch of zoology concerned with the study of whales (cetaceans)
- charlton — Bobby, full name Sir Robert Charlton. born 1937, English footballer; played for Manchester United (1956–73) and England (1958–70) for whom he played 106 times, scoring 49 goals
- chelator — an organic chemical that bonds with metal ions and produces a chelate compound
- chillout — (colloquial) A period of quiet, rest and relaxation, especially after a party etc.