8-letter words containing i, a, t, r
- trancing — a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- tranquil — free from commotion or tumult; peaceful; quiet; calm: a tranquil country place.
- transfix — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- tranship — transship
- transing — to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
- 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.
- transmit — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- 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.
- trapping — traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage.
- trappist — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a branch of the Cistercian order, observing the austere reformed rule established at La Trappe in 1664.
- trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- travails — painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
- trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
- treatise — a formal and systematic exposition in writing of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay.
- treenail — a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
- trematic — (of fish) relating to gill slits
- tri-band — of or relating to mobile telephones that can operate on three GSM frequency bands
- triadist — someone who composes triads
- trialism — the belief that man consists of body, soul, and spirit
- triality — the state of being threefold
- triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
- triapsal — (of a church) having three apses
- triarchy — government by three persons.
- triassic — noting or pertaining to a period of the Mesozoic Era, occurring from 230 to 190 million years ago and characterized by the advent of dinosaurs and coniferous forests.
- triaxial — having three axes.
- 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 .
- triazoic — hydrazoic.
- triazole — any of a group of four compounds containing three nitrogen and two carbon atoms arranged in a five-membered ring and having the formula C 2 H 3 N 3 .
- tribadic — lesbian (def 5).
- tribasic — (of an acid) having three atoms of hydrogen replaceable by basic atoms or groups.
- tribrach — Prosody. a foot of three short syllables.
- tribunal — a court of justice.
- trichina — a nematode, Trichinella spiralis, the adults of which live in the intestine and produce larvae that encyst in the muscle tissue, especially in pigs, rats, and humans.
- trictrac — a variety of backgammon.
- tridacna — a genus of giant clams inhabiting reefs in the South Pacific, attaining a diameter of 4 feet (1.2 meters) or more, and weighing over 500 pounds (227 kg).
- trifecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first three finishers in exact order.
- trifocal — Optics. having three foci.
- trigonal — of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle; having three angles; triangular.
- trigraph — a group of three letters representing a single speech sound, as eau in beau.
- trilemma — a situation, analogous to a dilemma, in which there are three almost equally undesirable alternatives: His trilemma consisted in not knowing whether to acknowledge receipt, deny it, or simply leave.
- trim tab — an independently controlled tab set in the trailing edge of a control surface, as an elevator, aileron, or rudder, to hold it in a position suitable for stabilizing the aircraft in a flight attitude.
- trimaran — a vessel similar to a catamaran but having three separate hulls.
- trimodal — (of a distribution) having three modes.
- trinidad — an island in the SE West Indies, off the NE coast of Venezuela: formerly a British colony in the Federation of the West Indies; now part of the republic of Trinidad and Tobago. 1864 sq. mi. (4828 sq. km).
- trinodal — having three nodes or joints.
- tripedal — having three feet.
- triphase — operating in three phases
- triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other