8-letter words containing a, t, r, o
- autofire — (video games) A feature on a joystick that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
- autogiro — a self-propelled aircraft supported in flight mainly by unpowered rotating horizontal blades
- autograf — (tool) A system for describing bar charts.
- autogyro — autogiro
- autoharp — a zither-like musical instrument used in country-and-western music, equipped with button-controlled dampers that can prevent selected strings from sounding, thus allowing chords to be played. It is plucked with the fingers or a plectrum
- autozero — Autozeroing.
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- avigator — aerial navigation.
- azoturia — the condition of having excess nitrogen in the urine
- babracot — a wooden grating used by Indians in South America for roasting and drying food.
- backport — (software) To make a feature from a later version of a piece of software available in an earlier version. Backporting of features enables users of the older version to benefit from a feature without upgrading fully.
- bad trot — a period of ill fortune
- balloter — a person who votes by ballot
- bancroft — George1800-91; U.S. historian & statesman
- bar foot — a foot having the form of a bar connecting the corresponding front and rear legs of a piece.
- bareboat — a boat that can be chartered without crew, provisions, etc
- barefoot — Someone who is barefoot or barefooted is not wearing anything on their feet.
- baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
- barometz — a type of Asian fern, Cibotium barometz, the woolly rhizoma of which is thought to resemble a lamb
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- barostat — a device for maintaining constant pressure, such as one used in an aircraft cabin
- barrator — a person guilty of barratry
- barretor — someone who deals fraudulently
- barstool — a stool or seat, usually high and having a round, cushioned top, of a type often used for seating customers at a bar.
- barytone — having the last syllable unaccented
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bathrobe — A bathrobe is a loose piece of clothing made of the same material as towels. You wear it before or after you have a bath or a swim.
- bathroom — A bathroom is a room in a house that contains a bath or shower, a washbasin, and sometimes a toilet.
- bear out — If someone or something bears a person out or bears out what that person is saying, they support what that person is saying.
- beaufort — Henry. ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- blowkart — a simple wheeled vehicle such as a go-kart which has been fitted with a sail and is powered by the wind
- boatyard — A boatyard is a place where boats are built and repaired or kept.
- body art — physical adornments such as tattoos and piercings
- bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- bot army — a group of computers, infected with malign programs via the internet, that can be controlled remotely to, for example, mount denial-of-service attacks
- botsares — Markos [Greek mahr-kaws] /Greek ˈmɑr kɔs/ (Show IPA), Bozzaris, Marco.
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- brentano — Clemens (Maria) (ˈkleːmənz). 1778–1842, German romantic poet and compiler of fairy stories and folk songs esp (with Achim von Arnim) the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08)
- bro talk — Māori English
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII