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

  • 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
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