8-letter words containing o, r, t
- attritor — A type of grinder in which particles suspended in water are moved by paddles and are ground as they collide with each other.
- auditors — Plural form of auditor.
- auditory — Auditory means related to hearing.
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- autocarp — any fruit that is produced through self-fertilization
- autocrat — An autocrat is a person in authority who has complete power.
- autofire — (video games) A feature on a joystick that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
- autogiro — a self-propelled aircraft supported in flight mainly by unpowered rotating horizontal blades
- autograf — (tool) A system for describing bar charts.
- autogyro — autogiro
- autoharp — a zither-like musical instrument used in country-and-western music, equipped with button-controlled dampers that can prevent selected strings from sounding, thus allowing chords to be played. It is plucked with the fingers or a plectrum
- autozero — Autozeroing.
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- avigator — aerial navigation.
- azoturia — the condition of having excess nitrogen in the urine
- babracot — a wooden grating used by Indians in South America for roasting and drying food.
- backport — (software) To make a feature from a later version of a piece of software available in an earlier version. Backporting of features enables users of the older version to benefit from a feature without upgrading fully.
- bad trot — a period of ill fortune
- balloter — a person who votes by ballot
- bancroft — George1800-91; U.S. historian & statesman
- bar foot — a foot having the form of a bar connecting the corresponding front and rear legs of a piece.
- bareboat — a boat that can be chartered without crew, provisions, etc
- barefoot — Someone who is barefoot or barefooted is not wearing anything on their feet.
- baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
- barometz — a type of Asian fern, Cibotium barometz, the woolly rhizoma of which is thought to resemble a lamb
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- barostat — a device for maintaining constant pressure, such as one used in an aircraft cabin
- barrator — a person guilty of barratry
- barretor — someone who deals fraudulently
- barstool — a stool or seat, usually high and having a round, cushioned top, of a type often used for seating customers at a bar.
- barytone — having the last syllable unaccented
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bathrobe — A bathrobe is a loose piece of clothing made of the same material as towels. You wear it before or after you have a bath or a swim.
- bathroom — A bathroom is a room in a house that contains a bath or shower, a washbasin, and sometimes a toilet.
- bear out — If someone or something bears a person out or bears out what that person is saying, they support what that person is saying.
- beaufort — Henry. ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- bebother — To bring trouble upon.
- bedworth — a town in central England, in N Warwickshire. Pop: 30 001 (2001)
- beetroot — Beetroot is a dark red root that is eaten as a vegetable. It is often preserved in vinegar.
- bellwort — any plant of the North American liliaceous genus Uvularia, having slender bell-shaped yellow flowers
- bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- bestrode — to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
- betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- beyrouth — Beirut.
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- biometer — a device for measuring the production of carbon dioxide in functioning tissue
- biometry — the analysis of biological data using mathematical and statistical methods
- biotroph — a parasitic organism, esp a fungus