8-letter words containing r, e, i, t, s
- tortoise — a turtle, especially a terrestrial turtle.
- trackies — loose-fitting trousers with elasticated cuffs, designed to be worn as part of a tracksuit
- trainers — shoes that people wear, especially for running and other sports
- 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.
- treatise — a formal and systematic exposition in writing of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay.
- treefish — a rockfish, Sebastes serriceps, of waters off southern California, marked with black bands.
- treeship — the existence of a tree
- triflers — an article or thing of very little value.
- trilbies — feet
- triphase — operating in three phases
- triplets — three children born at the same time to the same mother
- trisemic — relating to a triseme
- triskele — a symbolic figure consisting of three legs, arms, or branches radiating from a common center, as the device of Sicily and the Isle of Man.
- tristate — pertaining to a territory made up of three adjoining states: a tristate league.
- tristeza — a disease of certain citrus trees, characterized by yellowed leaves, wilting, and root destruction, caused by a virus.
- trollies — trolley car.
- tyrosine — a crystalline amino acid, HOC 6 H 4 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, abundant in ripe cheese, that acts as a precursor of norepinephrine and dopamine. Symbol: Y. Abbreviation: Tyr;
- unpriest — to strip a person of the priesthood; defrock
- uteritis — an inflammation of the womb
- veristic — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- verities — the state or quality of being true; accordance with fact or reality: to question the verity of a statement.
- vertices — a plural of vertex.
- vertisol — a clay-rich soil in which deep cracks form during the dry season.
- vestiary — of or relating to garments or vestments.
- viatores — a wayfarer; traveler.
- victress — a woman who is victorious.
- vitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- vortices — a plural of vortex.
- votaries — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
- waitress — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- wastrife — wastefulness
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- waterski — Each of a pair of skis enabling the wearer to skim the surface of the water when towed by a motorboat.
- weariest — Superlative form of weary.
- weirdest — involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.
- whipster — (informal, dated) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy.
- whistler — James (Abbott) McNeill [muh k-neel] /məkˈnil/ (Show IPA), 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.
- whithers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whither.
- whitster — a person who whitens or bleaches clothes
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.
- wisteria — any climbing shrub belonging to the genus Wisteria, of the legume family, having showy, pendent clusters of blue-violet, white, purple, or rose flowers.
- wordiest — Superlative form of wordy.
- worksite — a location used for work, especially construction or manual labor: industrial worksites; tobacco-free worksites.
- worthies — Plural form of worthy.
- wresting — Present participle of wrest.
- wristlet — a band worn around the wrist, especially to protect it from cold.
- zinester — One who compiles and publishes a zine.