8-letter words containing a, c, e, r, t
- outraced — Simple past tense and past participle of outrace.
- outrance — the utmost extremity.
- outreach — to reach beyond; exceed: The demand has outreached our supply.
- overacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overact.
- overcast — overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
- overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- pencraft — the art or craft of writing; skill with writing
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- peracute — (of diseases, chiefly in animals) very severe; very acute
- perceant — piercing; penetrating
- perfecta — exacta.
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- petrarch — (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74, Italian poet and scholar.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- picrated — containing picrate
- pie cart — a mobile van selling warmed-up food and drinks
- placater — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- race-fit — (of a person, animal, etc) fit or suitable for racing
- racemate — a salt or ester of racemic acid.
- racketer — a person who makes a racket
- racketry — noise and commotion
- raclette — a dish made by heating a piece of cheese, as over a hearth, and scraping off the melted part onto a plate: served with boiled potatoes.
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- radicate — to (cause to) take root
- raft ice — ice in cakes or sheets overlapping or piled on top of one another.
- rat race — any exhausting, unremitting, and usually competitive activity or routine, especially a pressured urban working life spent trying to get ahead with little time left for leisure, contemplation, etc.
- rat-race — any exhausting, unremitting, and usually competitive activity or routine, especially a pressured urban working life spent trying to get ahead with little time left for leisure, contemplation, etc.
- rate-cap — In Britain, when a local council was rate-capped, the government prevented it from increasing local taxes called rates, in order to force the council to reduce its spending or make it more efficient.
- raticide — a substance or preparation for killing rats.
- re-enact — to make into an act or statute: Congress has enacted a new tax law.
- re-teach — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- re-trace — to trace again, as lines in writing or drawing.
- reaccent — to accent again
- reaccept — to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor: to accept a present; to accept a proposal.
- reactant — a person or thing that reacts.
- reacting — to act or perform again.
- reaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- reactive — tending to react.
- readdict — to cause (a person) to become addicted to something again
- reascent — a further ascent