8-letter words containing a, r, e, p, t
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- splatter — an act or instance of splattering.
- sprattle — a struggle; fight.
- spreathe — to chap
- strapped — needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- strapper — a person or thing that straps.
- stuprate — to ravish or rape
- superate — overcome; surmounted; surpassed
- supertax — Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- tamper's — a person or thing that tamps.
- tapadera — Southwestern U.S. a hoodlike piece of heavy leather around the front of the stirrup of a stock or range saddle to protect the rider's foot.
- tapadero — tapadera.
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tapestry — a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- tarpaper — a heavy, tar-coated paper used as a waterproofing material in building construction.
- tarpeian — designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- taxpayer — a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
- teardrop — a tear or something suggesting a tear: A single teardrop rolled down her face.
- temporal — of, relating to, or situated near the temple or a temporal bone.
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
- teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples
- terrapin — any of several edible North American turtles of the family Emydidae, inhabiting fresh or brackish waters, especially the diamondback terrapin: some are threatened or endangered.
- tetrapla — a book containing versions of the same text in four languages
- tetrapod — any vertebrate having four limbs or, as in the snake and whale, having had four-limbed ancestors.
- the harp — the constellation Lyra
- the park — a soccer pitch
- thrapple — the throat or windpipe
- to spare — more than is required
- top gear — the highest gear in a motor vehicle
- topmaker — a wool dealer who specializes in selling wool tops to spinners
- trade up — 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.
- trade-up — 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.
- trampled — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- transept — any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
- trapezia — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- trapnest — a nesting box that can be entered but not exited by a hen, which is then released once its eggs have been counted
- trappean — of, relating to, or consisting of igneous rock, esp a basalt
- trappose — relating to traprock
- trespass — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
- tripedal — having three feet.
- triphase — operating in three phases
- triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
- triple a — anti-aircraft artillery
- triptane — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 17 , having high antiknock properties as a fuel: used chiefly as an admixture to airplane gasolines.
- tropaeum — a monument erected in ancient Greece or, especially, Rome to commemorate a military or naval victory.
- unparted — not parted, not separated
- upgather — to gather up or together: to upgather information.