8-letter words containing n, o, r, t
- tevatron — an accelerator in which protons or antiprotons are raised to energies of a few trillion electron-volts.
- the horn — the telephone
- the morn — tomorrow
- thermion — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thornset — set with thorns
- thornton — William, 1759–1828, U.S. architect, born in the British Virgin Islands.
- threnode — threnody.
- threnody — a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.
- thrombin — an enzyme of the blood plasma that catalyzes the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, the last step of the blood clotting process.
- thronner — a person who is good at doing odd jobs
- 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.
- throw on — clothing: put on hastily
- throwing — the act of projecting or casting (something) through the air, esp with a rapid motion of the arm and wrist
- thurmond — (James) Strom [strom] /strɒm/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, U.S. politician.
- thurston — a male given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “Thor's stone.”.
- 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.
- tolerant — inclined or disposed to tolerate; showing tolerance; forbearing: tolerant of errors.
- tone arm — the free-swinging bracket of a phonograph containing the pickup.
- tone row — a series of tones in which no tone is duplicated, and in which the tones generally recur in fixed sequence, with variations in rhythm and pitch, throughout a composition.
- tongster — a tong member (a member of a Chinese secret society)
- 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.
- torrance — a city in SW California, SW of Los Angeles.
- torrence — (Frederic) Ridgely [rij-lee] /ˈrɪdʒ li/ (Show IPA), 1875–1950, U.S. poet, playwright, and editor.
- torshavn — the capital of the Faeroe Islands, on the S tip of Streymoy Island.
- touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- tourneur — Cyril, 1575?–1626, English dramatist.
- tournois — (of coins) minted in Tours, France: livre tournois.
- tournure — an outline or contour
- towering — very high or tall; lofty: a towering oak.
- towerman — Railroads. a person who works in a switch tower and, by means of a signal box, directs the movement of trains.
- town car — an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.
- townwear — tailored, usually conservative clothing appropriate for business or other activities in a town or city.
- traction — the adhesive friction of a body on some surface, as a wheel on a rail or a tire on a road.