8-letter words containing l, p, a, t
- hotplate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- implants — Plural form of implant.
- kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
- kalyptra — a veil worn by women in Greece
- la plata — a seaport in E Argentina.
- la porte — a city in NW Indiana.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- lamppost — a post, usually of metal, supporting a lamp that lights a street, park, etc.
- lap belt — (in a motor vehicle) a seat belt secured to the framework of a seat and fastening across the lap of a driver or a passenger.
- lapactic — purgative; cathartic.
- lapidate — to pelt with stones.
- lapidist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lappeted — Simple past tense and past participle of lappet.
- lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- liparite — a light-coloured, igneous rock made of quartz
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- lipomata — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lisptalk — "Concurrent Programming Language Lisptalk", C. Li, SIGPLAN Notices 23(4):71-80 (Apr 1988).
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- maladapt — To adapt badly; to exhibit maladaptation.
- malapert — unbecomingly bold or saucy.
- milpitas — a town in W California.
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- naphtali — the sixth son of Jacob and Bilhah. Gen. 30:7,8.
- naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
- naphthyl — containing the naphthyl group.
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- net play — play made from a position close to the net
- nit-lamp — jacklight.
- nopalito — an edible branch (or cladode) of various cacti of the genus Opuntia (prickly pear), commonly used as a vegetable
- norplant — a contraceptive implant for women surgically inserted under the skin of the upper arm so as to release progesterone or various other steroid hormones gradually over a period of several years
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- octaloop — (genetics) An eight-base hairpin loop motif.
- oliphant — Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.
- oltipraz — 4-methyl-5-(2-pyrazinyl)-3-dithiolethione, a schistosomicide drug also used in tumour prevention.
- omoplate — the shoulder blade
- oppilant — blocking, hindering, or obstructing
- oppilate — to stop up; fill with obstructing matter; obstruct.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- optional — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- palatial — of, relating to, or resembling a palace: a palatial home.
- palatine — of, near, or in the palate; palatal: the palatine bones.
- palatium — a palace, especially the palace of an ancient Roman emperor.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- palleted — (of the binding of a book) stamped with the name of the binder.