8-letter words containing r, a, t
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- drabbest — Superlative form of drab.
- draftees — Plural form of draftee.
- drafters — Plural form of drafter.
- draftily — In a drafty manner.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw top — a tabletop that can be extended by drawing out and raising leaves suspended from either end.
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- driftway — A common road or path for driving cattle.
- drip mat — a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips
- drive at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- dry-salt — to cure or preserve (meat, hides, etc.) by drying and salting.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.
- dunnarts — Plural form of dunnart.
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- dustcart — a garbage truck.
- dynatron — an electron tube, usually a tetrode, that produces an oscillating current at certain frequencies
- e-tailer — the selling of goods and services on the Internet or through email solicitation.
- ear tuft — a tuft of long feathers above the eyes of some owls and other birds that becomes erect when the bird is excited or afraid but is not used in hearing.
- earliest — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- earnests — Plural form of earnest.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- earthier — Comparative form of earthy.
- earthily — In an earthy manner.
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- earthman — a human inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthmen — Plural form of earthman.
- earthnut — any of various roots, tubers, or underground growths, as the peanut and the truffle.
- earthpea — the peanut.
- earthset — the apparent setting of the earth below the lunar horizon, as seen from a satellite or similar spacecraft emerging from the far side of the moon
- easterly — moving, directed, or situated toward the east: an easterly course.
- eastward — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- eat dirt — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- eateries — Plural form of eaterie.