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

  • prorated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
  • prostate — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
  • protease — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
  • protrade — 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.
  • psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
  • pterylae — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
  • pthreads — POSIX Threads
  • pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
  • pyruvate — an ester or salt of pyruvic acid.
  • qadarite — a member of the Qadariyah.
  • quadrate — square or rectangular.
  • quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
  • quartern — a quarter, or a fourth part, especially of certain weights and measures, as of a pound, ounce, peck, or pint.
  • quarters — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
  • quartets — Plural form of quartet.
  • quartier — a city district
  • quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
  • quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
  • quartzes — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
  • quatorze — a set of four cards of the same denomination, aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, scoring 14 points.
  • quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
  • rabatine — a type of collar or cape worn over the shoulders
  • rabbeted — Simple past tense and past participle of rabbet.
  • rabbited — Simple past tense and past participle of rabbit.
  • rabbiter — a person who traps and sells rabbits
  • race-fit — (of a person, animal, etc) fit or suitable for racing
  • racemate — a salt or ester of racemic acid.
  • racketer — a person who makes a racket
  • racketry — noise and commotion
  • raclette — a dish made by heating a piece of cheese, as over a hearth, and scraping off the melted part onto a plate: served with boiled potatoes.
  • racquets — Plural form of racquet.
  • radetzky — Count Joseph [yoh-zef] /ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal.
  • radiated — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
  • radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
  • radicate — to (cause to) take root
  • radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
  • radwaste — radioactive waste.
  • rafferty — confused; disorganized.
  • raft ice — ice in cakes or sheets overlapping or piled on top of one another.
  • ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
  • ragtimer — a person who plays ragtime music
  • raindate — an alternative date proposed in case of rain
  • ramentum — a scraping, shaving, or particle.
  • ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
  • raptness — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
  • raptured — (especially of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.
  • raptures — expressions of ecstatic joy
  • rarities — something rare, unusual, or uncommon: Snowstorms are a rarity in the South.
  • rat belt — A cable tie, especially the sawtoothed, self-locking plastic kind that you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs). Small cable ties are "mouse belts".
  • rat mite — a widespread tropical mite (Ornithonyssus bacoti) of the same order (Parasitiformes) as ticks: it is carried by rats and can cause skin inflammations or transmit typhus to human beings by its bite
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