8-letter words containing t, a, r, e
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- 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
- storable — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- 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)
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- straddle — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- 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.
- strapped — needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- strapper — a person or thing that straps.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- stratose — formed in strata or layers
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- streaker — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- streamer — something that streams: streamers of flame.
- streator — a city in N Illinois.
- strewage — strewn or discarded items
- striated — striated.
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- stuprate — to ravish or rape
- suberate — a salt of suberic acid
- superate — overcome; surmounted; surpassed
- supertax — Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- swarther — swarthy.
- swear at — use bad language towards, curse at
- sybarite — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- t square — a T -shaped ruler, used primarily in mechanical drawing, having a short crosspiece that slides along the edge of the drawing board as a guide to the perpendicular longer section in making parallel lines, right angles, etc., and as a support for triangles.
- t-square — a T -shaped ruler, used primarily in mechanical drawing, having a short crosspiece that slides along the edge of the drawing board as a guide to the perpendicular longer section in making parallel lines, right angles, etc., and as a support for triangles.
- tabarded — wearing a tabard
- taberdar — a holder of a scholarship at Queen's College, Oxford
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- taborite — (in the 15th century) a member of the militant body of Hussites maintaining a strict literal interpretation of the Scriptures.
- tabouret — a low seat without back or arms, for one person; stool.
- taffarel — taffrail.
- tafferel — taffrail.
- tagareen — a junk shop
- taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
- tailleur — a tailored or tailor-made costume for women.