9-letter words containing m, a, t, r
- tack room — a room in or near a stable for storing saddles, harnesses, and other tack.
- take arms — go to war
- take form — be shaped
- tamarillo — the edible, plumlike fruit of a tree, Cyphomandra betacea, of the nightshade family, native to the Peruvian Andes.
- tambourer — someone who embroiders on a tambour
- tambourin — a long narrow drum of Provence.
- tamerlane — (Timur Lenk) 1336?–1405, Tartar conqueror in southern and western Asia: ruler of Samarkand 1369–1405.
- tampering — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tank farm — an area or expanse of land used for holding oil-storage tanks.
- tarantism — a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula.
- taraxacum — the dried roots of any of several composite plants of the genus Taraxacum, as the dandelion, T. officinale or T. laevigatum, used in medicine in powdered or fluidextract form chiefly as a tonic and aperient.
- tasimeter — a device for measuring small temperature changes. It depends on the changes of pressure resulting from expanding or contracting solids
- tauriform — shaped like a bull or the head or horns of a bull.
- taxidermy — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
- taximeter — a device fitted to a taxicab or other vehicle, for automatically computing and indicating the fare due.
- taylorism — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- tea maker — a perforated, spoonlike object used as a tea strainer and having a hinged, convex lid.
- tea-maker — a perforated, spoonlike object used as a tea strainer and having a hinged, convex lid.
- tear bomb — a bomb or grenade containing tear gas.
- teledrama — a drama written especially for broadcast on television.
- temperate — moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc.: a temperate response to an insulting challenge.
- temporary — an office worker hired, usually through an agency on a per diem basis, for a short period of time.
- tenderman — any member of the crew of a vessel engaged in conveying fish from a trap or pound to the shore.
- tentmaker — a person who makes tents.
- tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
- termagant — a violent, turbulent, or brawling woman.
- terminate — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- termitary — termitarium.
- terraform — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- terramara — a lake dwelling or settlement of lake dwellings, especially those whose remains survive in mounds in the Po valley of N Italy.
- terrarium — a vivarium for land animals (distinguished from aquarium).
- tetragram — a word of four letters.
- third man — Cricket. the position of a fielder on the off side between slip and point. the fielder occupying this position.
- thirdsman — an intermediary or arbitrator; the third person
- thralldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
- tia maria — a coffee-flavoured liqueur from the Caribbean
- tillerman — a person who steers a boat or has charge of a tiller.
- timberman — a person who prepares, erects, and maintains mine timbers.
- time warp — a hypothetical eccentricity in the progress of time that would allow movement back and forth between eras or that would permit the passage of time to be suspended.
- timeframe — the period of time within which certain events are scheduled to occur
- timesaver — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- timisoara — a city in W Romania.
- timocracy — a form of government in which love of honor is the dominant motive of the rulers.
- timor sea — an arm of the Indian Ocean, between Timor and NW Australia.
- tinkerman — a manager or coach who continually experiments by changing the personnel or formation of a team from game to game
- tirewoman — a lady's maid.
- tommy bar — a short bar used as a lever to provide torque for tightening a box spanner or key
- tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- toolmaker — a machinist skilled in the building and reconditioning of tools, jigs, and related devices used in a machine shop.
- tophamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.