8-letter words containing t, a, r, e
- tailored — (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- tailrace — the race, flume, or channel leading away from a waterwheel or the like.
- tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
- take for — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- takeover — the act of seizing, appropriating, or arrogating authority, control, management, etc.
- taker-in — licker-in.
- talavera — a type of Mexican earthenware characterized by colorful, detailed patterns and a milky glaze.
- tamper's — a person or thing that tamps.
- tapadera — Southwestern U.S. a hoodlike piece of heavy leather around the front of the stirrup of a stock or range saddle to protect the rider's foot.
- tapadero — tapadera.
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tapestry — a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- taqueria — a restaurant or stand specializing in Mexican dishes, as tacos and burritos.
- tar heel — a native or inhabitant of North Carolina (used as a nickname).
- tarentum — ancient name of Taranto.
- targeted — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- tarpaper — a heavy, tar-coated paper used as a waterproofing material in building construction.
- tarpeian — designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- tartness — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
- tartrate — a salt or ester of tartaric acid.
- tartuffe — (italics) a comedy (1664–69) by Molière.
- tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
- tattered — torn to tatters; ragged: a tattered flag.
- tattooer — the act or practice of marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, legends, etc., by making punctures in it and inserting pigments.
- tautomer — a compound that exhibits tautomerism.
- taverner — John, 1490?–1545, English organist and composer.
- tax rate — the percentage of the value of a property to be paid as a tax.
- tax year — A tax year is a particular period of twelve months which is used by the government as a basis for calculating taxes and for organizing its finances and accounts. In Britain, the tax year begins on April 6th and ends on April 5th. In the United States, the tax year begins on January 1st and ends on December 31st.
- tax-free — tax-exempt (def 1).
- taxpayer — a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
- tayberry — a hybrid shrub produced by crossing a blackberry, raspberry, and loganberry
- tea cart — a small table on wheels for holding a tea service, extra dishes at a dinner, etc.; serving cart
- tea room — A tea room is the same as a tea shop.
- tea rose — any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- tea tray — a tray for carrying or holding articles used in serving tea.
- tea tree — a tall shrub or small tree, Leptospermum scoparium, of the myrtle family, native to New Zealand and Australia, having silky foliage when young, and bell-shaped, white flowers: often planted to prevent beach erosion.
- tea-rose — any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- teaberry — the spicy red fruit of the American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
- teaboard — a tea tray
- teabread — a loaf-shaped cake that contains dried fruit which has been steeped in cold tea before baking: served sliced and buttered
- teamster — a person who drives a team or a truck for hauling, especially as an occupation.
- teamwork — cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.
- tear gas — Tear gas is a gas that causes your eyes to sting and fill with tears so that you cannot see. It is sometimes used by the police or army to control crowds.
- tear off — designed to be easily removed by tearing, usually along a perforated line: a sales letter with a tear-off order blank.
- tear-gas — to subject to tear gas.
- tear-off — designed to be easily removed by tearing, usually along a perforated line: a sales letter with a tear-off order blank.
- tear-out — designed to be easily torn out, as from bound matter: a tear-out children's section of games and puzzles.
- tearable — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.