8-letter words containing t, a, r, e
- prorated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- prostate — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- protease — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- protrade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- pterylae — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- pyruvate — an ester or salt of pyruvic acid.
- qadarite — a member of the Qadariyah.
- quadrate — square or rectangular.
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- quartern — a quarter, or a fourth part, especially of certain weights and measures, as of a pound, ounce, peck, or pint.
- quarters — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- quartets — Plural form of quartet.
- quartier — a city district
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- quartzes — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quatorze — a set of four cards of the same denomination, aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, scoring 14 points.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- rabatine — a type of collar or cape worn over the shoulders
- rabbeted — Simple past tense and past participle of rabbet.
- rabbited — Simple past tense and past participle of rabbit.
- rabbiter — a person who traps and sells rabbits
- race-fit — (of a person, animal, etc) fit or suitable for racing
- racemate — a salt or ester of racemic acid.
- racketer — a person who makes a racket
- racketry — noise and commotion
- raclette — a dish made by heating a piece of cheese, as over a hearth, and scraping off the melted part onto a plate: served with boiled potatoes.
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- radetzky — Count Joseph [yoh-zef] /ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal.
- radiated — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radicate — to (cause to) take root
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- rafferty — confused; disorganized.
- raft ice — ice in cakes or sheets overlapping or piled on top of one another.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- ragtimer — a person who plays ragtime music
- raindate — an alternative date proposed in case of rain
- ramentum — a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- raptness — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
- raptured — (especially of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.
- raptures — expressions of ecstatic joy
- rarities — something rare, unusual, or uncommon: Snowstorms are a rarity in the South.
- rat belt — A cable tie, especially the sawtoothed, self-locking plastic kind that you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs). Small cable ties are "mouse belts".
- rat mite — a widespread tropical mite (Ornithonyssus bacoti) of the same order (Parasitiformes) as ticks: it is carried by rats and can cause skin inflammations or transmit typhus to human beings by its bite