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HTML

<div id="container">
    <ul class="tile ">
        <li><a class="list-item">Oh lord </a></li>
        <li><a class="list-item">Lordy lordy i am long</a></li>
        <li><a class="list-item">bigmac </a></li>
         <li><a class="list-item">Oh lord </a></li>
        <li><a class="list-item">Lordy lordy i am long</a></li>
        <li><a class="list-item">bigmac </a></li>
        <li><a class="list-item">bigmac </a></li>
        <li><a class="list-item">bigmac </a></li>
        <li><a class="list-item">bigmac </a></li>
    </ul>
<div>

CSS

#container {
    width: 600px;
    height: 600px;
    background-color: red;
}


.tile  {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    text-align: center;
   
}

.tile ul {

    list-style: none;
    text-align:center;
    /*text-overflow: ellipsis;*/
}

.tile li {
    background-color: white;
    display: block;
    float: left;
    margin: 10px;
    overflow: hidden;
}
.tile li a.list-item{
    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: middle;
    height: 75px;
    text-align: center;
    width:75px;

}