8-letter words containing y, t, a, l
- bay salt — salt derived by evaporating seawater in the sun.
- baysmelt — topsmelt.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
- biacetyl — a liquid with a strong, butter-like odour
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
- calidity — warmth
- 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
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- casualty — A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.
- cat yawl — a yawl having the mainmast close to the stem and the after mast on the counter.
- catalyse — If something catalyses a thing or a situation, it makes it active.
- catalyst — You can describe a person or thing that causes a change or event to happen as a catalyst.
- catalyze — If something catalyzes a thing or a situation, it makes it active.
- catchfly — any of several caryophyllaceous plants of the genus Silene that have sticky calyxes and stems on which insects are sometimes trapped
- catolyte — the part of the electrolyte that surrounds the cathode in an electrolytic cell
- cattleya — any tropical American orchid of the genus Cattleya, cultivated for their purplish-pink or white showy flowers
- chastely — refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion; virtuous.
- chattily — In a chatty manner.
- chrystal — Obsolete spelling of crystal.
- clackety — A clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.
- clattery — (informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.
- clay pit — a pit or mine from which clay is extracted
- clypeate — shaped like a round shield
- coitally — in the manner of coitus
- costally — in a costal manner
- craftily — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- crystall — Obsolete form of crystal.
- crystals — Plural form of crystal.
- dactylar — of or pertaining to a dactyl
- dactylic — of, relating to, or having a dactyl
- dactylo- — finger or toe
- dactylus — the tip of a cephalopod's tentacular club
- daintily — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- daylight — Daylight is the natural light that there is during the day, before it gets dark.
- daytaler — a worker who is appointed and paid on a daily basis
- dentally — in relation to the teeth
- detailly — In detail.
- diacetyl — a chemical compound with formula C4H6O2, occurring naturally as a by-product of fermentation, and commonly added to margarine and other foods because of its buttery taste
- dialytic — of or relating to dialysis.
- diastyle — having columns about three diameters apart
- didactyl — (esp of many marsupials) having the hind toes separate
- dielytra — a member of a genus of flowering herbaceous plants including bleeding heart