8-letter words containing a, b, t, e, r
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- rustable — liable to rust
- sabatier — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1854–1941, French chemist: Nobel prize 1912.
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- sortable — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- storable — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- suberate — a salt of suberic acid
- sybarite — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- tabarded — wearing a tabard
- taberdar — a holder of a scholarship at Queen's College, Oxford
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- taborite — (in the 15th century) a member of the militant body of Hussites maintaining a strict literal interpretation of the Scriptures.
- tabouret — a low seat without back or arms, for one person; stool.
- tayberry — a hybrid shrub produced by crossing a blackberry, raspberry, and loganberry
- teaberry — the spicy red fruit of the American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
- teaboard — a tea tray
- teabread — a loaf-shaped cake that contains dried fruit which has been steeped in cold tea before baking: served sliced and buttered
- tearable — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- tenebrae — the office of matins and lauds for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week, sung respectively on the afternoon of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of that week, at which the Crucifixion is commemorated by the gradual extinguishment of candles.
- terabyte — 2 40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes; 1024 gigabytes.
- thalberg — Irving (Grant) 1899–1936, U.S. motion-picture producer.
- the bard — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- the bear — the constellation Ursa Major or Ursa Minor
- the crab — the constellation Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac
- tiberian — of or relating to the emperor Tiberius.
- tiberias — Lake. Galilee, Sea of.
- trabeate — constructed with a beam or on the principle of a beam, as an entablature or flat ceiling.
- trackbed — the foundation on which railway tracks are laid
- tradable — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- traybake — a flat, usually chewy cake which is baked in a tray, cut into small squares, and served as a biscuit
- turbaned — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- turnable — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- umbrated — drawn in a faint or shaded manner
- urbanite — a resident of a city or urban community.
- vartabed — (in the Armenian church) a doctor, master, or teacher
- verbatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- vertebra — any of the bones or segments composing the spinal column, consisting typically of a cylindrical body and an arch with various processes, and forming a foramen, or opening, through which the spinal cord passes.
- waterbed — a bed having a liquid-filled rubber or plastic mattress in a rigid, often heated, waterproof frame, and providing a surface that conforms to the sleeper's body in any position.
- waterboy — Alternative spelling of water boy.
- waterbus — Alternative spelling of water bus.
- writable — capable of being written or set down in writing.
- ytterbia — a colorless compound, Yb 2 O 3 , used in certain alloys and ceramics.