7-letter words containing s, t, e, r
- thérèse — Saint(1873-97); Fr. Carmelite nun: her day is Oct. 3
- thermos — a vacuum bottle or similar container lined with an insulating material, such as polystyrene, to keep liquids hot or cold.
- threads — a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, especially when composed of two or more filaments twisted together.
- thrives — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- tigress — a female tiger.
- tipster — a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
- tirasse — a mechanism in a musical organ connecting two pedals, so that both may be pressed down at once
- toaster — a person who proposes or joins in a toast to someone or something.
- tonsure — the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- torches — 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.
- torques — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
- torrens — Lake, a salt lake in Australia, in E South Australia. 130 miles (210 km) long; 2400 sq. mi. (6220 sq. km); 25 feet (8 meters) below sea level.
- torsade — a twisted cord.
- torsive — twisted
- traipse — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- transes — transgender or transsexual: Their son is trans. Laura is a trans woman.
- trashed — intoxicated; drunk.
- trasher — a person who trashes something, especially in anger or protest.
- trashes — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- trasses — a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- travers — P(amela) L. 1899–1996, Australian writer, especially of children's stories, in England.
- treason — the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- trellis — a frame or structure of latticework; lattice.
- trenise — one of the figures in a quadrille
- tressed — (of the hair) arranged or formed into tresses; braided; plaited.
- tresses — Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- trestle — a frame typically composed of a horizontal bar or beam rigidly joined or fitted at each end to the top of a transverse A-frame, used as a barrier, a transverse support for planking, etc.; horse.
- treviso — a city in NE Italy.
- treviss — a partition in a stable for keeping animals apart
- triceps — a muscle having three heads or points of origin, especially the muscle on the back of the arm, the action of which straightens the elbow.
- trieste — a seaport in NE Italy, on the Gulf of Trieste.
- triones — the seven principal stars of the constellation Ursa Major
- trisect — to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- triseme — a metrical foot of a length equal to three short syllables
- trisome — a trisomic individual.
- troches — a small tablet or lozenge, usually a circular one, made of medicinal substance worked into a paste with sugar and mucilage or the like, and dried.
- trouser — of or relating to trousers or a trouser: trouser cuffs; a trouser seam.
- trussed — close (def 54).
- trusser — to tie, bind, or fasten.
- trusted — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- trustee — a person, usually one of a body of persons, appointed to administer the affairs of a company, institution, etc.
- truster — trustor
- turrets — a small tower, usually one forming part of a larger structure.
- tushery — the use of affectedly archaic language in novels, etc
- tussore — a tan silk from India. Compare Shantung (def 2a).
- twister — a person or thing that twists.
- undrest — to take the clothes off (a person); disrobe.
- upstare — to stare upwards
- ureters — a muscular duct or tube conveying the urine from a kidney to the bladder or cloaca.
- ventris — Michael George Francis, 1922–56, English architect and linguist.