8-letter words containing l, i, t
- balletic — If you describe someone's movements as balletic, you mean that they have some of the graceful qualities of ballet.
- ballista — an ancient catapult for hurling stones, etc
- balmiest — Superlative form of balmy.
- banality — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
- bantling — a young child; brat
- barbital — diethylbarbituric acid, C8H12N2O3, a drug in the form of a white powder, used as a hypnotic and sedative: it is habit-forming and toxic
- basaltic — the dark, dense igneous rock of a lava flow or minor intrusion, composed essentially of labradorite and pyroxene and often displaying a columnar structure.
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- bat girl — a girl or young woman who takes care of the bats and sometimes other equipment of a team.
- bath oil — scented oil added to bath water
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- battaile — (obsolete spelling of, battle).
- battalia — the arrangement of military troops prepared for battle
- battling — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- bedlight — a bedlamp.
- bedquilt — a padded bedcover
- beetling — a heavy hammering or ramming instrument, usually of wood, used to drive wedges, force down paving stones, compress loose earth, etc.
- belitong — Billiton.
- belittle — If you belittle someone or something, you say or imply that they are unimportant or not very good.
- belitung — island of Indonesia, in the Java Sea, between Borneo & Sumatra: 1,866 sq mi (4,833 sq km)
- beltline — a line separating a car's windows from the main body
- beltrami — Eugenio [e-oo-je-nyaw] /ˌɛ uˈdʒɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1900, Italian mathematician.
- biacetyl — a liquid with a strong, butter-like odour
- biathlon — a contest in which skiers with rifles shoot at four targets along a 20-kilometre (12.5-mile) cross-country course
- bidental — a sacred place where lightning has struck
- big talk — bragging or boasting talk
- billeted — lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.
- billiton — an island of Indonesia, in the Java Sea between Borneo and Sumatra. Chief town: Tanjungpandan. Area: 4833 sq km (1866 sq miles)
- bilobate — divided into or having two lobes
- biolytic — able to destroy life.
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- biotical — pertaining to life.
- bistable — having two stable states
- biteable — denoting something which can be bitten
- bitingly — nipping; smarting; keen: biting cold; a biting sensation on the tongue.
- bitterly — You use bitterly when you are describing an attitude which involves strong, unpleasant emotions such as anger or dislike.
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- blairite — of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- blatting — bleat.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bletilla — any of several terrestrial orchids of the genus Bletilla, of eastern Asia, as B. striata, having terminal clusters of showy purple or white flowers.
- bletting — the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained.
- blighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blighter — You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter.