8-letter words containing r, a, t
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- aviarist — a person who keeps an aviary
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- aviatrix — a female aviator
- avigator — aerial navigation.
- aweather — towards the weather
- axletree — a bar fixed across the underpart of a wagon or carriage that has rounded ends on which the wheels revolve
- azoturia — the condition of having excess nitrogen in the urine
- babbitry — the attitude and behavior of a Babbitt.
- babracot — a wooden grating used by Indians in South America for roasting and drying food.
- baccarat — a card game in which two or more punters gamble against the banker
- 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.
- backrest — The backrest of a seat or chair is the part which you rest your back on.
- bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- bactrian — of or relating to Bactria
- bad trip — a mentally or physically horrifying drug-taking experience, as one accompanied by nightmarish hallucinations or by physical pain.
- bad trot — a period of ill fortune
- balestra — a jump toward the opponent followed immediately by a lunge.
- ballarat — a town in SE Australia, in S central Victoria: originally the centre of a gold-mining region. Pop: 72 999 (2001)
- balloter — a person who votes by ballot
- baluster — any of a set of posts supporting a rail or coping
- bancroft — George1800-91; U.S. historian & statesman
- banditry — Banditry is used to refer to acts of robbery and violence in areas where the rule of law has broken down.
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- bankster — a banker or investor whose financial practices have been exposed as illegal
- banneret — a knight who was entitled to command other knights and men-at-arms under his own banner
- bantered — Simple past tense and past participle of banter.
- banterer — One who banters.
- baptizer — someone who baptises
- bar cart — a small table on wheels, outfitted for serving drinks; a portable bar.
- bar foot — a foot having the form of a bar connecting the corresponding front and rear legs of a piece.
- bar-tack — a close series of stitches crossing a piece of cloth, as in an article of clothing, in order to reinforce it at a point of concentrated strain.
- barathea — a fabric made of silk and wool or cotton and rayon, used esp for coats
- barbette — (formerly) an earthen platform inside a parapet, from which heavy guns could fire over the top
- barbital — diethylbarbituric acid, C8H12N2O3, a drug in the form of a white powder, used as a hypnotic and sedative: it is habit-forming and toxic
- 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.
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- baristas — Plural form of barista.
- 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.
- barletta — a port in SE Italy, in Apulia. Pop: 92 094 (2001)
- 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