8-letter words containing s, t, r, u
- trousers — a leg of a pair of trousers.
- trueness — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- truistic — a self-evident, obvious truth.
- trumpets — a showy pitcher plant, Sarracenia flava, of the southeastern U.S., having prominently veined, crimson-throated, yellow-green leaves and yellow flowers from 2 to 4 inches (5.1 to 10.2 cm) wide.
- trumpism — the policies advocated by Donald Trump, especially those involving a rejection of the current political establishment and the vigorous pursuit of American national interests
- trussing — Civil Engineering, Building Trades. any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c). any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- trust to — If you trust to luck or instinct, you hope that it will enable you to achieve what you are trying to do, because you have nothing else to help you.
- trustful — full of trust; free of distrust, suspicion, or the like; confiding: a trustful friend.
- trusting — Law. of or relating to trusts or a trust.
- tuberose — a bulbous plant, Polianthes tuberosa, of the agave family, cultivated for its spike of fragrant, creamy-white, lily-like flowers.
- tuberous — characterized by the presence of rounded or wartlike prominences or tubers.
- tumorous — a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- turfless — without any turf
- turistas — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Latin America.
- turmoils — a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; tumult; agitation; disquiet: mental turmoil caused by difficult decisions.
- turnskin — (in folklore) a creature that can change its skin, esp a werewolf
- turnsole — any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.
- turnspit — a spit that rotates or can be rotated.
- tutoress — a woman who is a tutor.
- tutorism — the office or duties of a tutor
- tyrrheus — a shepherd. The killing of his tame stag by Ascanius was a cause of the war between Aeneas' Trojans and the people of Latium.
- tyrtaeus — flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet.
- ulstered — wearing an ulster
- ultraism — extremism.
- ultraist — extremism.
- underset — a current of water below the surface and flowing in a direction contrary to the water on the surface.
- undesert — a lack of merit or worth
- unitrust — a charitable trust which pays the beneficiary a fixed percentage of the value of the assets each year. This value is taken as the fair market value of those assets
- unpriest — to strip a person of the priesthood; defrock
- unrested — not rested; tired; fatigued
- unrusted — Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- unsecret — not secret
- unsorted — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- unstarch — to free from stiffness
- unstarry — not resembling or characteristic of a star from the entertainment world
- unstress — absence of stress (as on a weak syllable); the pronunciation of an unstressed syllable
- unstring — to deprive of strings: to unstring a violin.
- unstruck — not struck
- unstrung — simple past tense and past participle of unstring.
- untruism — something that is false; an untrue statement
- untrusty — not trusty or trustworthy; undependable
- upstager — someone who upstages
- upstairs — up the stairs; to or on an upper floor.
- upstream — toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.
- upstroke — an upward stroke, especially of a pen or pencil, or of a piston in a vertical cylinder.
- upthrust — a thrust in an upward direction.
- urbanist — a person who is a specialist in urban planning.
- urostege — an underside plate on a serpent's tail
- urostomy — an artificial opening for the release of urine, used when urination through the bladder and urethra is no longer possible due, for example, to surgery
- urostyle — the fused vertebrae at the posterior end of the spinal column of some fishes and tailless amphibians.