8-letter words containing o, r, t, e
- biometer — a device for measuring the production of carbon dioxide in functioning tissue
- biometry — the analysis of biological data using mathematical and statistical methods
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- boertjie — a person, esp a friend, often used as a term of address
- bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- boltrope — a rope sewn to the foot or luff of a sail to strengthen it
- bookrest — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- botchery — an instance of botched workmanship
- bothered — worried or concerned
- botryose — Mineralogy. botryoidal.
- botsares — Markos [Greek mahr-kaws] /Greek ˈmɑr kɔs/ (Show IPA), Bozzaris, Marco.
- bottomer — a person who makes the seat part of a chair
- bourtree — the elder-tree
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- brentano — Clemens (Maria) (ˈkleːmənz). 1778–1842, German romantic poet and compiler of fairy stories and folk songs esp (with Achim von Arnim) the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08)
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- bronxite — a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.
- bronzite — a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
- brookite — a reddish-brown to black mineral consisting of titanium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in silica veins. Formula: TiO2
- brooklet — a small brook
- browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carotene — any of four orange-red isomers of an unsaturated hydrocarbon present in many plants (β-carotene is the orange pigment of carrots) and converted to vitamin A in the liver. Formula: C40H56
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- caveator — a person who enters a caveat
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- centrode — a locus produced by plotting the course of the instantaneous centre of two bodies in relative motion
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cerotype — a process for preparing a printing plate by engraving a wax-coated copper plate and then using this as a mould for an electrotype
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- chelator — an organic chemical that bonds with metal ions and produces a chelate compound
- cheroots — Plural form of cheroot.
- chlorate — any salt of chloric acid, containing the monovalent ion ClO3–
- chlorite — any of a group of green soft secondary minerals consisting of the hydrated silicates of aluminium, iron, and magnesium in monoclinic crystalline form: common in metamorphic rocks
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- chortled — to chuckle gleefully.
- chortler — One who chortles.
- chortles — Plural form of chortle.