8-letter words containing n, i, t, r, o
- thermion — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thrombin — an enzyme of the blood plasma that catalyzes the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, the last step of the blood clotting process.
- throw in — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- throwing — the act of projecting or casting (something) through the air, esp with a rapid motion of the arm and wrist
- thyroxin — Biochemistry. the thyroid gland hormone that regulates the metabolic rate of the body.
- timeworn — worn or impaired by time.
- timoneer — someone who steers a ship
- tin horn — someone, especially a gambler, who pretends to be important but actually has little money, influence, or skill.
- tinworks — an establishment for the mining or processing of tin or for the making of tinware.
- tirolean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tyrol or its inhabitants.
- tiverton — a town in SE Rhode Island.
- tjirebon — a seaport on N Java, in S central Indonesia.
- toilworn — worn by toil: toilworn hands.
- tonsilar — of or relating to the tonsils
- tontiner — a subscriber to a tontine
- topliner — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.
- torching — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
- torminal — of or relating to tormina
- tornadic — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
- tornaria — the ciliated, free-swimming larva of certain hemichordates.
- tornillo — screw bean.
- torquing — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
- touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- tournois — (of coins) minted in Tours, France: livre tournois.
- towering — very high or tall; lofty: a towering oak.
- traction — the adhesive friction of a body on some surface, as a wheel on a rail or a tire on a road.
- trendoid — a follower of trends
- trichion — the point of intersection of the normal hairline and the middle line of the forehead.
- trigonal — of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle; having three angles; triangular.
- trigonic — pertaining to a trigon
- trigonum — trigone.
- trillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 12 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 18 zeros.
- trinodal — having three nodes or joints.
- triolein — olein (def 1).
- triphone — a group of three phonemes
- tritonia — any plant of the perennial cormous S African genus Tritonia, with typically scarlet or orange flowers: family Iridaceae
- tritonis — (in ancient geography) a mythical lake near the Mediterranean coast of Libya.
- trizonal — formed or arranged in three layers or zones
- trolling — to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
- trooping — an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- tropaion — a tropaeum, especially in Greece.
- troponin — a protein within a troponin complex that helps regulate the heartbeat and can be used as an indicator of myocardial infarction.
- trotline — a strong fishing line strung across a stream, or deep into a river, having individual hooks attached by smaller lines at intervals.
- trotting — (of a horse) to go at a gait between a walk and a run, in which the legs move in diagonal pairs, but not quite simultaneously, so that when the movement is slow one foot at least is always on the ground, and when fast all four feet are momentarily off the ground at once.
- trunnion — either of the two cylindrical projections on a cannon, one on each side for supporting the cannon on its carriage.
- turingol — (language) A high-level language for programming Turing Machines by Donald Knuth. It was the subject of the first construction of a nontrivial attribute grammar.
- tutoring — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- twinborn — born at the same birth.
- tyrosine — a crystalline amino acid, HOC 6 H 4 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, abundant in ripe cheese, that acts as a precursor of norepinephrine and dopamine. Symbol: Y. Abbreviation: Tyr;