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

  • straiten — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
  • sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
  • suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
  • suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
  • swear in — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
  • tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
  • taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
  • tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
  • taker-in — licker-in.
  • tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
  • tarpeian — designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death
  • tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
  • tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
  • teraglin — an edible marine fish, Zeluco atelodus, of Australia which has fine scales and is blue in colour
  • teresian — a member of the reformed order of barefooted Carmelites, founded in Spain in 1562.
  • teresina — a state in NE Brazil. 96,860 sq. mi. (250,870 sq. km). Capital: Teresina.
  • terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
  • 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.
  • teucrian — of or relating to the ancient Trojans.
  • tiberian — of or relating to the emperor Tiberius.
  • tirolean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tyrol or its inhabitants.
  • touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
  • 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-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.
  • trainers — shoes that people wear, especially for running and other sports
  • tramline — a streetcar system.
  • 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.
  • trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
  • treenail — a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • unarisen — not having risen
  • unfairer — more unfair
  • unhairer — an instrument for removing hair
  • unixware — (operating system)   Novell's implementation of Unix System 5 heavily based on Release 4.2 but with enhancements and new bundled products. In 1993 Novell acquired Unix Systems Laboratories from AT&T along with the Unix trademark. UnixWare was the result of Novell's efforts to make Unix interoperable with Novell NetWare. In 1995 Novell sold UnixWare and the rights to the Unix operating system to SCO at a time when UnixWare was gainnig popularity. It was later the first 64-bit operating system on the Intel platform, and, in 1999, is the world's fastest-growing commercial operating system.
  • unpaired — not matched
  • unpraise — to withhold praise from
  • unraised — fashioned or made as a surface design in relief.
  • unrepaid — not repaid
  • unrepair — lack of repair; disrepair; dilapidation: in a state of unrepair.
  • unvaried — characterized by or exhibiting variety; various; diverse; diversified: varied backgrounds.
  • urbanise — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
  • urbanite — a resident of a city or urban community.
  • urbanize — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
  • vacherin — a soft French or Swiss cheese made from cows' milk
  • valerian — (Publius Licinius Valerianus) died a.d. c260, Roman emperor 253–60.
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