8-letter words containing a, c, e, r, t
- reattach — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- reattack — to attack (a country, person, etc) again
- recanted — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- recaptor — someone who recaptures something that had been taken
- recarpet — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- recreant — cowardly or craven.
- recreate — to create anew.
- rectally — of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- rectoral — of or relating to God's rule
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- redacted — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redactor — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- rejacket — a new covering or jacket, esp for a book
- relocate — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- retackle — to tackle again
- retiracy — retirement
- retracer — someone or something which retraces
- retroact — to act in opposition; react.
- rhematic — pertaining to the formation of words.
- rice rat — any rat of the genus Oryzomys, having an exceptionally long tail, especially O. palustris, inhabiting rice fields and marshes of the southern U.S., Mexico, and Central America.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- sarcenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- scarcest — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scattery — characterized by scattering or dispersion
- sceptral — of, resembling, or relating to a sceptre
- scramjet — a ramjet engine in which the flow through the combustor itself is supersonic.
- scrattle — to scratch
- seacraft — the skills and knowledge of a sailor
- sectator — a member or follower of a sect
- sectoral — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- socrates — 469?–399 b.c, Athenian philosopher.
- sortance — suitableness
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- tailrace — the race, flume, or channel leading away from a waterwheel or the like.
- tea cart — a small table on wheels for holding a tea service, extra dishes at a dinner, etc.; serving cart
- terceira — an island in the Azores, in the N Atlantic. 153 sq. mi. (395 sq. km). Capital: Angra do Heroismo.
- terraced — a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
- terraces — unroofed tiers around a football pitch on which the spectators stand
- tetracid — a base or alcohol containing four hydroxyl groups.
- tetradic — relating to something that has a group of four