8-letter words containing l, p, a, t
- claptrap — If you describe something that someone says as claptrap, you mean that it is stupid or foolish although it may sound important.
- claspeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clasp.
- clay pit — a pit or mine from which clay is extracted
- clip art — a large collection of simple drawings stored in a computer from which items can be selected for incorporation into documents
- clodpate — A blockhead; a dolt or fool.
- clypeate — shaped like a round shield
- coal pit — a pit where coal is dug.
- coal pot — a cooking device using charcoal, consisting of a raised iron bowl and a central grid
- coalport — a white translucent bone china having richly coloured moulded patterns, made in the 19th century at Coalport near Shrewsbury
- compital — (of the shrine of a domestic god) located at a crossroads
- compleat — an archaic spelling of complete, used esp in the titles of handbooks, in imitation of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
- conepatl — a hog-nosed skunk
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- datepalm — Alternative spelling of date palm.
- decaplet — One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
- depilate — to remove the hair from
- diplomat — a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- displant — to dislodge.
- dubplate — An acetate recording disk, typically one featuring a dub version of a reggae song that is not yet on general release.
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- endplate — any usually flat platelike structure at the end of something
- enthalpy — A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
- epaulets — Plural form of epaulet.
- epiblast — The outermost layer of an embryo before it differentiates into ectoderm and mesoderm.
- epilator — An electrical device used for hair removal by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out.
- eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
- explants — Plural form of explant.
- flat cap — A flat cap is the same as a cloth cap.
- flat top — an aircraft carrier.
- flat-top — an aircraft carrier.
- flatpack — A package for an integrated circuit consisting of a rectangular sealed unit with a number of horizontal metal pins protruding from its sides.
- flatpick — a plectrum
- flattops — Plural form of flattop.
- fleapits — Plural form of fleapit.
- flippant — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- fly trap — any of various plants that entrap insects, especially Venus's-flytrap.
- fly-past — a ceremonial flight of aircraft over a given area
- flytraps — Plural form of flytrap.
- gallipot — a type of turpentine exuded on the stems of certain species of pine.
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- goalpost — a post supporting a crossbar and, with it, forming the goal on a playing field in certain sports, as football.
- haptical — of or relating to the sense of touch: the haptic sensation of holding a real book in your hands.
- heel-tap — a layer of leather, metal, or the like in a shoe heel; a lift.
- heeltaps — Plural form of heeltap.
- helpmate — a companion and helper.
- hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.