8-letter words containing u, l, a, t
- gunmetal — any of various alloys or metallic substances with a dark gray or blackish color or finish, used for chains, belt buckles, etc.
- gustable — Having a taste; capable of being tasted.
- gutteral — Misspelling of guttural.
- guttural — of or relating to the throat.
- habitual — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
- half cut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- half-cut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- halibuts — Plural form of halibut.
- halitous — relating to a mist or emission
- halutzim — a person who immigrates to Israel to establish or join a settlement for accomplishing tasks, as clearing the land or planting trees, that are necessary to future development of the country.
- hamulate — Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.
- hasteful — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hatefull — Obsolete form of hateful.
- hazelnut — the nut of the hazel; filbert.
- hazlenut — Misspelling of hazelnut.
- heartful — An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- ich-laut — the voiceless palatal fricative sound that is written as ch in German ich, often allophonic with the ach-laut
- inartful — Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; impolitic; ill-phrased; inexpedient; clumsy.
- inflatus — A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration.
- insulant — an insulating material, as used in building trades.
- insulate — to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound: to insulate an electric wire with a rubber sheath; to insulate a coat with down.
- istanbul — a port in NW Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus: built by Constantine I on the site of ancient Byzantium; capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and of the Ottoman Empire; capital removed to Ankara 1923.
- jaculate — to throw or hurl (a dart, javelin, etc.).
- jauntily — easy and sprightly in manner or bearing: to walk with a jaunty step.
- jubilant — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilate — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- jugulate — to check or suppress (disease) by extreme measures.
- kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
- kola nut — a brownish seed, about the size of a chestnut, produced by a tropical tree belonging to the genus Cola, containing both caffeine and theobromine: its extract is used in soft drinks.
- kwakiutl — a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
- la tuque — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- la-chute — French La Chute. a novel (1957) by Albert Camus.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- laghouat — a city in N Algeria.
- laid out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- landshut — a city in SE Germany, in Bavaria: Trausnitz castle (13th century); manufacturing centre for machinery and chemicals. Pop: 60 282 (2003 est)
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- lash out — the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- last out — to go on or continue in time: The festival lasted three weeks.
- lathyrus — a genus of leguminous climbing plants that includes the sweet pea
- latitude — Geography. the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point. a place or region as marked by this distance.
- laudator — One who lauds.
- laugh at — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- laugheth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'laugh'.
- laughter — the action or sound of laughing.
- laughton — Charles, 1899–1962, U.S. actor, born in England.
- laureate — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.