8-letter words that end in at
- cervelat — a smoked sausage made from pork and beef
- chitchat — Chitchat is informal talk about things that are not very important.
- cockboat — any small boat
- compleat — an archaic spelling of complete, used esp in the titles of handbooks, in imitation of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
- coon cat — cacomistle
- crabmeat — Crabmeat is the part of a crab that you eat.
- cryostat — an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature or a vessel in which a substance is stored at a low temperature
- deadbeat — If you refer to someone as a deadbeat, you are criticizing them because you think they are lazy and do not want to be part of ordinary society.
- deep fat — cooking oil or fat that is deep enough in the pan to cover food that is to be deep-fried
- deermeat — Alternative spelling of deer meat.
- democrat — A Democrat is a member or supporter of a particular political party which has the word 'democrat' or 'democratic' in its title, for example the Democratic Party in the United States.
- despotat — the dominion of a despot
- diplomat — a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries.
- downbeat — the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
- drip mat — a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips
- drive at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- dustcoat — a loose lightweight coat worn for early open motor-car riding
- eurocrat — European Union official
- eurostat — an organization within the European Union that collects and collates statistical information relating to member states
- externat — a day school
- faltboat — a small boat having a collapsible wooden frame covered with waterproof cloth or plastic.
- farebeat — to illegally avoid paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- fat meat — fatback (def 1).
- felt hat — a soft hat made of felt
- fire hat — a helmet worn by a firefighter as a defense against falling materials from burning structures.
- fireboat — a powered vessel equipped to fight fires on boats, docks, shores, etc.
- firebrat — a bristletail, Thermobia domestica, that lives in areas around furnaces, boilers, steampipes, etc.
- flatboat — a large, flat-bottomed boat for use in shallow water, especially on rivers.
- fly swat — fly swatter.
- foldboat — faltboat.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- gallivat — (nautical) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.
- gray hat — a hacker who violates the security of a system without true malicious intent but often without the prior knowledge or consent of the owner or developer, and who later reports system vulnerabilities to the authorities, sometimes for personal profit.
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- gyrostat — a modified gyroscope, consisting of a rotating wheel pivoted within a rigid case.
- hard hat — protective helmet
- hard-hat — a protective helmet of metal or plastic, especially as worn by construction or factory workers.
- hellicat — an evil creature
- hemostat — an instrument or agent used to compress or treat bleeding vessels in order to arrest hemorrhage.
- high hat — a snobbish person
- high-hat — to snub or treat condescendingly.
- hood rat — a young promiscuous woman from an impoverished urban area
- hoofbeat — the sound made by an animal's hoof in walking, running, etc.
- hot seat — electric chair.
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- hydrolat — An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract.
- illtreat — Alternative form of ill-treat.
- intelsat — a global communications satellite network under international control.
- intermat — a patch of seabed devoid of vegetation