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8-letter words containing n, t, e, r

  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
  • tourneur — Cyril, 1575?–1626, English dramatist.
  • 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.
  • townwear — tailored, usually conservative clothing appropriate for business or other activities in a town or city.
  • trade in — 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.
  • 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.
  • trade-in — goods given in whole or, usually, part payment of a purchase: We used our old car as a trade-in for the new one.
  • traherne — Thomas, 1637?–74, English writer.
  • trainers — shoes that people wear, especially for running and other sports
  • tramline — a streetcar system.
  • tranched — Finance. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
  • tranchet — a stone implement with a horizontal, chisellike cutting edge, found at Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in macrolithic form, used as an adz, and in microlithic form, often mounted as the cutting head of an arrow.
  • transect — to cut across; dissect transversely.
  • transept — any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
  • transfer — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • 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.
  • transnet — the official rail and transport service in South Africa
  • transude — to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
  • transume — to make an official transcription of
  • trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
  • trapnest — a nesting box that can be entered but not exited by a hen, which is then released once its eggs have been counted
  • trappean — of, relating to, or consisting of igneous rock, esp a basalt
  • trebling — threefold; triple.
  • trecento — the 14th century, with reference to Italy, and especially to its art or literature.
  • treelawn — a narrow band of grass between a road and a pavement, usually planted with trees
  • treenail — a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
  • treetran — A Fortran IV subroutine package for tree manipulation.
  • trekking — to travel or migrate, especially slowly or with difficulty.
  • trencher — a person or thing that digs trenches.
  • trenches — Fortification. a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
  • trendify — to render fashionable; remodel in line with current trends
  • trending — emerging as a popular trend: trending fashion accessories.
  • trendoid — a follower of trends
  • trephine — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
  • trewsman — a Highlander
  • triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
  • 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 .
  • triolein — olein (def 1).
  • triphone — a group of three phonemes
  • triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
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