8-letter words containing i, a, t, r
- bartizan — a small turret projecting from a wall, parapet, or tower
- bat girl — a girl or young woman who takes care of the bats and sometimes other equipment of a team.
- batterie — a movement in ballet involving the legs beating together
- bear pit — a place, such as parliament or the stock market ,where there are a lot of aggressive, argumentative and competitive people
- beatrice — a feminine name: dim. Bea; var. Beatrix
- beltrami — Eugenio [e-oo-je-nyaw] /ˌɛ uˈdʒɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1900, Italian mathematician.
- berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- bi-party — representing two distinct parties: a biparty investigating committee.
- biarritz — a town in SW France, on the Bay of Biscay: famous resort, patronized by Napoleon III and by Queen Victoria and Edward VII of Great Britain and Ireland. Pop: 27 398 (2006)
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- birdbath — a small basin or trough for birds to bathe in, usually in a garden
- birretta — a stiff square cap with three or four upright projecting pieces extending from the center of the top to the edge, worn by ecclesiastics.
- birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
- bit part — A bit part is a small and unimportant role for an actor in a film or play.
- bit rate — the rate of flow of binary digits in a digital data-processing system, usually expressed as the number of bits per second
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).
- blairite — of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- brantail — a redstart
- branting — Karl Hjalmar (jalmar). 1860–1925, Swedish politician; prime minister (1920; 1921–23; 1924–25). He founded Sweden's welfare state and shared the Nobel peace prize 1921
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brattain — Walter Houser. 1902–87, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1956) with W. B. Shockley and John Bardeen for their invention of the transistor
- brattice — a partition of wood or treated cloth used to control ventilation in a mine
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- carditic — relating to carditis
- carditis — inflammation of the heart
- carinate — having a keel or ridge; shaped like a keel
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- carnatic — a region of S India, between the Eastern Ghats and the Coromandel Coast: originally the country of the Kanarese; historically important as a rich and powerful trading centre; now part of Tamil Nadu state
- carnitas — A Mexican dish involving strips of braised or roasted pork.
- carotids — Plural form of carotid.
- carritch — catechism
- caryatid — a column, used to support an entablature, in the form of a draped female figure
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- castrati — a male singer, especially in the 18th century, castrated before puberty to prevent his soprano or contralto voice range from changing.
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.