8-letter words containing lat
- omoplate — the shoulder blade
- onolatry — Worship of the ass or donkey.
- oppilate — to stop up; fill with obstructing matter; obstruct.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- overlate — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- 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.
- peculate — to appropriate or embezzle (public money)
- pixelate — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixilate — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- platanna — an aquatic South African frog
- platband — a flat structural member, as a lintel or flat arch.
- plate up — to put food on a plate, ready for serving
- plateasm — the practice of talking with the mouth open too wide
- plateaux — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- plateful — the amount that a plate will hold.
- platelet — a small platelike body, especially a blood platelet.
- plateman — a person who makes and sells plate armour
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- platinic — of or containing platinum, especially in the tetravalent state.
- platino- — of, relating to, containing, or resembling platinum
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- platypod — Also, platypodous [pluh-tip-uh-duh s] /pləˈtɪp ə dəs/ (Show IPA). having a broad foot, as certain gastropod mollusks.
- platypus — a small, aquatic, egg-laying monotreme, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, of Australia and Tasmania, having webbed feet, a tail like that of a beaver, a sensitive bill resembling that of a duck, and, in adult males, venom-injecting spurs on the ankles of the hind limbs, used primarily for fighting with other males during the breeding season.
- platysma — a broad, thin muscle on each side of the neck, extending from the upper part of the shoulder to the corner of the mouth, the action of which wrinkles the skin of the neck and depresses the corner of the mouth.
- populate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
- regelate — to freeze by regelation.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- relation — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- relative — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- rosulate — forming a rosette or rosettes.
- run-flat — (of an automobile tire) constructed so as not to deflate completely after a puncture so that a motorist can still drive the vehicle for some distance.
- sibilate — to hiss.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- slathers — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slattern — a slovenly, untidy woman or girl.
- slattery — slovenly
- slatting — a slap; a sharp blow.
- solation — to change from a gel to a sol.
- solatium — something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
- splatter — an act or instance of splattering.
- stellate — like the form of a conventionalized figure of a star; star-shaped.
- subulate — slender, somewhat cylindrical, and tapering to a point; awl-shaped.
- sufflate — to inflate.
- tabulate — to put or arrange in a tabular, systematic, or condensed form; formulate tabularly.