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8-letter words containing a, r, t, e, n

  • tone arm — the free-swinging bracket of a phonograph containing the pickup.
  • torrance — a city in SW California, SW of Los Angeles.
  • touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
  • towerman — Railroads. a person who works in a switch tower and, by means of a signal box, directs the movement of trains.
  • townwear — tailored, usually conservative clothing appropriate for business or other activities in a town or city.
  • trade in — 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 on — 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-in — goods given in whole or, usually, part payment of a purchase: We used our old car as a trade-in for the new one.
  • traherne — Thomas, 1637?–74, English writer.
  • trainers — shoes that people wear, especially for running and other sports
  • tramline — a streetcar system.
  • tranched — Finance. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
  • tranchet — a stone implement with a horizontal, chisellike cutting edge, found at Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in macrolithic form, used as an adz, and in microlithic form, often mounted as the cutting head of an arrow.
  • transect — to cut across; dissect transversely.
  • transept — any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
  • transfer — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • transire — a document allowing goods to pass through customs
  • transkei — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa on the Indian Ocean: granted independence in 1976 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,910 sq. mi. (43,798 sq. km). Capital: Umtata.
  • transnet — the official rail and transport service in South Africa
  • transude — to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
  • transume — to make an official transcription of
  • 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
  • treelawn — a narrow band of grass between a road and a pavement, usually planted with trees
  • treenail — a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
  • treetran — A Fortran IV subroutine package for tree manipulation.
  • trewsman — a Highlander
  • triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
  • triazine — any of a group of three compounds containing three nitrogen and three carbon atoms arranged in a six-membered ring and having the formula C 3 H 3 N 3 .
  • triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
  • triptane — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 17 , having high antiknock properties as a fuel: used chiefly as an admixture to airplane gasolines.
  • truename — (operating system)   An undocumented DOS command to find the UNC name of a file or directory on a network drive.
  • truncate — to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.
  • tsarevna — a daughter of a czar.
  • 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.
  • twangler — a person who twangles
  • 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).
  • tyrolean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tyrol or its inhabitants.
  • tzarevna — a daughter of a czar.
  • ultranet — a net in a topological space that is residually in every set or its complement in the space.
  • uncreate — to dismantle or unmake
  • underact — to play (a role) without adequate emphasis
  • underate — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
  • undereat — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
  • undertax — to tax at an insufficient level
  • unlearnt — to forget or lose knowledge of.
  • unmature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
  • unornate — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
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