8-letter words containing t, a, n, e, r
- slattern — a slovenly, untidy woman or girl.
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- sortance — suitableness
- stancher — staunch2 .
- stearine — Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 1 8 H 3 5 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- strainer — a person or thing that strains.
- straiten — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- stranded — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- strander — a person who strands
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- tagareen — a junk shop
- taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
- tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
- taker-in — licker-in.
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tarentum — ancient name of Taranto.
- tarpeian — designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death
- tartness — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
- tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
- taverner — John, 1490?–1545, English organist and composer.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- teenager — a person in his or her teens.
- tenantry — tenants collectively; the body of tenants on an estate.
- tenebrae — the office of matins and lauds for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week, sung respectively on the afternoon of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of that week, at which the Crucifixion is commemorated by the gradual extinguishment of candles.
- tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
- teraglin — an edible marine fish, Zeluco atelodus, of Australia which has fine scales and is blue in colour
- teresian — a member of the reformed order of barefooted Carmelites, founded in Spain in 1562.
- teresina — a state in NE Brazil. 96,860 sq. mi. (250,870 sq. km). Capital: Teresina.
- terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- ternates — an island in E Indonesia, W of Halmahera: important source of spices. 53 sq. mi. (137 sq. km).
- terrapin — any of several edible North American turtles of the family Emydidae, inhabiting fresh or brackish waters, especially the diamondback terrapin: some are threatened or endangered.
- tetragon — a polygon having four angles or sides; a quadrangle or quadrilateral.
- tetraxon — a four-pointed spicule
- tetronal — a sedative drug
- teucrian — of or relating to the ancient Trojans.
- tevatron — an accelerator in which protons or antiprotons are raised to energies of a few trillion electron-volts.
- threaden — relating to something that is composed of or made of thread
- threaten — to utter a threat against; menace: He threatened the boy with a beating.
- tiberian — of or relating to the emperor Tiberius.
- tirolean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tyrol or its inhabitants.
- tolerant — inclined or disposed to tolerate; showing tolerance; forbearing: tolerant of errors.