8-letter words containing a, m, t
- tramroad — (in a mine) a small railroad for trams.
- transmit — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- transume — to make an official transcription of
- trashman — a person who collects trash for removal in a truck.
- trematic — (of fish) relating to gill slits
- trewsman — a Highlander
- trialism — the belief that man consists of body, soul, and spirit
- trilemma — a situation, analogous to a dilemma, in which there are three almost equally undesirable alternatives: His trilemma consisted in not knowing whether to acknowledge receipt, deny it, or simply leave.
- trim tab — an independently controlled tab set in the trailing edge of a control surface, as an elevator, aileron, or rudder, to hold it in a position suitable for stabilizing the aircraft in a flight attitude.
- trimaran — a vessel similar to a catamaran but having three separate hulls.
- trimodal — (of a distribution) having three modes.
- tristram — one of the knights of the Round Table, whose love for Iseult, wife of King Mark, is the subject of many romances.
- tropaeum — a monument erected in ancient Greece or, especially, Rome to commemorate a military or naval victory.
- truchman — an interpreter
- truckman — a truckdriver.
- truename — (operating system) An undocumented DOS command to find the UNC name of a file or directory on a network drive.
- tsunamic — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tsushima — two adjacent Japanese islands between Korea and Kyushu: Russian fleet defeated by Japanese fleet 1905. 271 sq. mi. (702 sq. km).
- tupamaro — any of a group of Marxist urban guerrillas in Uruguay
- turcoman — Turkoman.
- turkoman — a member of a Turkish people consisting of a group of tribes that inhabit the region near the Aral Sea and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.
- two-name — (of commercial paper) having more than one obligor, usually a maker and endorser, both of whom are fully liable.
- tympanal — pertaining to the middle ear or tympanic membrane.
- tympanic — pertaining or belonging to a tympanum.
- tympanum — Anatomy, Zoology. middle ear. tympanic membrane.
- tyramine — an amine, C 8 H 11 NO, abundant in ripe cheese as a breakdown product of tyrosine by removal of the carboxyl group (COOH).
- ultimacy — the state or quality of being ultimate.
- ultimata — a final, uncompromising demand or set of terms issued by a party to a dispute, the rejection of which may lead to a severance of relations or to the use of force.
- ultimate — last; furthest or farthest; ending a process or series: the ultimate point in a journey; the ultimate style in hats.
- ultraism — extremism.
- umangite — a copper selenide mineral, Cu3Se2, having a dark blue or red colour and metallic lustre
- umar tal — ?1797–1864, African religious and military leader, who created a Muslim empire in W Africa
- umbonate — having an umbo or projecting boss.
- umbrated — drawn in a faint or shaded manner
- umbratic — of or relating to the shade or shadows
- unmantle — to remove a mantle or similar covering from (someone or something)
- unmatted — (of a framed picture) without a mat
- unmature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- unmutual — having or pertaining to a form of corporate organization in which there are no stockholders, and in which profits, losses, expenses, etc., are shared by members in proportion to the business each transacts with the company: a mutual company. See also mutual insurance.
- upmarket — appealing or catering to high-income consumers; of high quality; not easily affordable or accessible: upmarket fashions.
- upstream — toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.
- urheimat — the primeval habitation of a people, especially the prehistoric homeland of the speakers of a protolanguage.
- vagotomy — the surgical severance of vagus nerve fibers, performed to reduce acid secretion by the stomach.
- vamplate — a metal plate mounted on a lance in front of the grip to protect the hand.
- vasotomy — incision or opening of the vas deferens.
- veratrum — any poisonous herb of N American genus Veratrum
- verbatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- viameter — an early form of odometer designed to measure the distance travelled by a carriage
- viaticum — Ecclesiastical. the Eucharist or Communion as given to a person dying or in danger of death.
- vitalism — the philosophical doctrine that the phenomena of life cannot be explained in purely mechanical terms because there is something immaterial which distinguishes living from inanimate matter