8-letter words containing r, e, t, a, i
- 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.
- eat dirt — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- eateries — Plural form of eaterie.
- elaterid — any of the beetles constituting the widely distributed family Elateridae (click beetles). The group includes the wireworms and certain fireflies
- elaterin — An extract from the juice of the fruit of Ecballium elaterium (the squirting cucumber), used as a purgative.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- emigrate — Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- emirates — Plural form of emirate.
- enargite — a sulphide of copper and arsenic
- entrails — A person or animal's intestines or internal organs, especially when removed or exposed.
- entrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entrain.
- epilator — An electrical device used for hair removal by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out.
- eradiate — (botany) Said of several types of capitulum that do not have petal-like florets.
- erastian — of or supporting Thomas Erastus or his doctrines
- eremital — of, or relating to, an eremite
- ergastic — consisting of the non-living by-products of protoplasmic activity
- ergative — Relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g., Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the subject of a transitive verb and is different from the case that identifies the subject of an intransitive verb.
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- eritrean — of or relating to Eritrea or its inhabitants
- erotical — (obsolete) Erotic.
- erratick — Obsolete form of erratic.
- erratics — Plural form of erratic.
- etherial — Archaic form of ethereal.
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- exgratia — (chiefly, India) Alternative form of ex gratia.
- expiator — One who makes expiation or atonement.
- expirant — a person who expires
- faultier — having faults or defects; imperfect.
- favorite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- feracity — (obsolete) The state of being feracious, or fruitful.
- feterita — a grain sorghum cultivated for grain and forage.
- figeater — green June beetle.
- figurate — Forming a figure.
- filature — the act of forming into threads.
- filtrate — liquid that has been passed through a filter.
- fine art — a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture.
- finestra — an aperture, especially a ventilator in the wall of a tomb.
- fire ant — any of several omnivorous ants, as the migrant Solenopsis geminata originating in tropical and subtropical South America, having a sting that produces a burning sensation.
- fire hat — a helmet worn by a firefighter as a defense against falling materials from burning structures.
- fireboat — a powered vessel equipped to fight fires on boats, docks, shores, etc.
- firebrat — a bristletail, Thermobia domestica, that lives in areas around furnaces, boilers, steampipes, etc.
- firetrap — a building that, because of its age, material, structure, or the like, is especially dangerous in case of fire.
- fixature — anything that holds an object in place, whether by physical or chemical means
- fractile — (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
- frailest — Superlative form of frail.
- framekit — (language) A frame language.
- freetail — a free-tailed bat.
- frigates — Plural form of frigate.
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters