5-letter words containing r, t, c
- fract — (obsolete) To break; to violate.
- pc-rt — (computer) An incorrect name for the RT-PC.
- ratch — a ratchet.
- react — to act in response to an agent or influence: How did the audience react to the speech?
- recit — narrative
- recta — a plural of rectum.
- recti — plural of rectus.
- recto — a right-hand page of an open book or manuscript; the front of a leaf (opposed to verso).
- recut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- retch — to make efforts to vomit.
- rotch — a little auk
- rt-pc — (computer) RISC Technology Personal Computer. (Commonly, but incorrectly, known as the "PC-RT", later changed to just "RT") IBM's first RISC-based Unix computer. The RT-PC was the predecessor to IBM's RS/6000. It ran AIX 1.x and 2.x and had a PC-AT bus and IBM's ROMP microprocessor. It was withdrawn from the marketing around 1989 or 1990.
- scart — to scratch or scrape
- scrat — to scratch
- taroc — an old card game of Italy, Austria, etc. played with a deck of, usually, 78 cards that includes the tarot cards as trumps
- terce — tierce (def 3).
- torch — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
- toric — noting or pertaining to a lens with a surface forming a portion of a torus, used for eyeglasses and contact lenses that correct astigmatism.
- trace — either of the two straps, ropes, or chains by which a carriage, wagon, or the like is drawn by a harnessed horse or other draft animal.
- track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- tract — a brief treatise or pamphlet for general distribution, usually on a religious or political topic.
- tracy — Spencer, 1900–67, U.S. film actor.
- triac — a type of thyristor designed for electronic control of the current supplied to a circuit, used especially in dimmers for lighting systems.
- trice — a very short time; an instant: in a trice.
- trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- tronc — a pool into which waiters, waitresses, hotel workers, etc, pay their tips and into which some managements pay service charges for later distribution to staff by a tronc master, according to agreed percentages
- truce — a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- truck — a shuffling jitterbug step.
- turco — (formerly) an Algerian serving in the light infantry of the French army