8-letter words containing n, o, r, t
- trade on — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- tragopan — any of several Asian pheasants of the genus Tragopan, having two fleshy, erectile horns on the head and wattles on the throat.
- trapunto — quilting having an embossed design produced by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton.
- trecento — the 14th century, with reference to Italy, and especially to its art or literature.
- 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.
- trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
- 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.
- trouncer — a person who trounces someone or something
- trueborn — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- trunnion — either of the two cylindrical projections on a cannon, one on each side for supporting the cannon on its carriage.
- turbofan — a jet engine having a large impeller that takes in air, part of which is used in combustion of fuel, the remainder being mixed with the products of combustion to form a low-velocity exhaust jet.
- turcoman — Turkoman.
- 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.
- turkoman — a member of a Turkish people consisting of a group of tribes that inhabit the region near the Aral Sea and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.
- turkomen — Turkmenistan.
- turn off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turn out — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turn-off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turncoat — a person who changes to the opposite party or faction, reverses principles, etc.; renegade.
- turncock — (formerly) an official employed to turn on the water for the mains supply
- turndown — that is or may be turned down; folded or doubled down: a turndown collar.
- turnover — an act or result of turning over; upset.
- turnsole — any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.
- tutoring — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- twinborn — born at the same birth.
- tyrolean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tyrol or its inhabitants.
- 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;
- undertow — the seaward, subsurface flow or draft of water from waves breaking on a beach.
- unerotic — arousing or satisfying sexual desire: an erotic dance.
- unornate — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- unprompt — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- unrotted — not rotted
- unrotten — not rotten
- unsorted — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.