8-letter words containing i, r, t, a
- rotating — to cause to turn around an axis or center point; revolve.
- rotation — the act of rotating; a turning around as on an axis.
- rotative — rotating or pertaining to rotation.
- roth ira — A Roth IRA is a kind of retirement account where contributions are made with taxed money, and distributions are tax-free.
- rotifera — the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.
- royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
- rubaiyat — (in Persian poetry) a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas
- 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.
- ruralist — one who leads or advocates a rural life
- ruralite — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- rurality — rural character.
- rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- rutilant — glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
- ryotwari — (in India) a system of land tenure in which land taxes are paid to the state
- sabatier — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1854–1941, French chemist: Nobel prize 1912.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- sacristy — an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.
- safarist — a person on safari
- salariat — the class of workers in an economy who receive salaries.
- 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.
- sarmatia — the ancient name of a region in E Europe, between the Vistula and the Volga.
- sarmatic — of or relating to Sarmatia or its inhabitants
- sarodist — a person who plays the sarod
- sastrugi — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- satirise — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satirist — a writer of satires.
- satirize — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- satyrisk — a small satyr
- scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scimitar — a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- 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.
- septaria — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- seriatim — in a series; one after another in regular order
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- serratia — a genus of rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria that are saprophytic on decaying plant or animal materials.
- siderate — to strike violently
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge
- sitzmark — a sunken area in the snow marking a backward fall of a skier.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar