8-letter words containing i, r, t, a, n
- rotation — the act of rotating; a turning around as on an axis.
- ruminant — any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- rutilant — glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
- sanitary — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
- sanscrit — Sanskrit
- sanskrit — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- santeria — (sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.
- santorin — Thera.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- senorita — a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- start in — to undertake (something or doing something); commence or begin
- starving — very hungry
- stearine — Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 1 8 H 3 5 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- stinkard — a despicable person; stinker.
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- strainer — a person or thing that strains.
- straiten — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- strontia — Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- taciturn — inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
- taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
- tainaron — Cape, a cape in the Ionian Sea, S Greece, at the S tip of the Peloponnesus.
- tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
- taker-in — licker-in.
- tamanoir — a large anteater of Central and South America, Myrmecophaga tridactyla
- tamarind — the pod of a large, tropical tree, Tamarindus indica, of the legume family, containing seeds enclosed in a juicy acid pulp that is used in beverages and food.
- tandoori — baked or cooked in a tandoor: tandoori chicken.
- tanistry — the system among various Celtic tribes of choosing a tanist.
- tantrika — Also called Tantrist [tuhn-trist, tan-] /ˈtʌn trɪst, ˈtæn-/ (Show IPA). an adherent of Tantra.
- tantrism — (italics) Hinduism. any of several books of esoteric doctrine regarding rituals, disciplines, meditation, etc., composed in the form of dialogues between Shiva and his Shakti; Agama.
- taormina — a resort commune in Messina, in E Sicily, Italy: Roman remains.
- 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
- tarrying — to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn: He tarried in Baltimore on his way to Washington.
- tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
- tatarian — a member of a modern Turkic people living in the Tatar Autonomous Republic and adjacent regions of eastern European Russia and in widely scattered communities in western Siberia and central Asia.
- 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.