8-letter words containing t, e, r
- ceinture — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- celature — the art of embossing metal.
- celerity — rapidity; swiftness; speed
- cellaret — a case, cabinet, or sideboard with compartments for holding wine bottles
- cementer — A person who applies cement.
- cemetary — Misspelling of cemetery.
- cemetery — A cemetery is a place where dead people's bodies or their ashes are buried.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- centeral — Misspelling of central.
- centered — If an industry or event is centered in a place, it takes place to the greatest extent there.
- centeric — Misspelling of centric.
- centiare — a unit of area equal to one square metre
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- centrale — (anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
- centries — Plural form of centry.
- centring — a temporary structure, esp one made of timber, used to support an arch during construction
- centrism — (especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- centrist — Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme.
- centrode — a locus produced by plotting the course of the instantaneous centre of two bodies in relative motion
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cerastes — any venomous snake of the genus Cerastes, esp the horned viper
- ceratite — An ammonoid fossil of an intermediate type found chiefly in the Permian and Triassic periods, typically with partly frilled and partly lobed suture lines.
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cerement — any burial clothes
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cerotype — a process for preparing a printing plate by engraving a wax-coated copper plate and then using this as a mould for an electrotype
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- certeine — Archaic spelling of certain.
- cervelat — a smoked sausage made from pork and beef
- ceterach — any of a genus of ferns characterized by scales found on the underside of the fronds
- cextract — (programming, tool) A C prototype extractor by Adam Bryant <[email protected]>. cextract can generate header files for large multi-file C programs, and will automatically generate prototypes for all of the functions in such a program. It can also generate a sorted list of all functions and their locations. cextract version 1.7 works with both ANSI C and K&R C and runs under Unix and VMS. Posted to comp.sources.reviewed.
- chanters — Plural form of chanter.
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch
- charente — a department of W central France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Angoulême. Pop: 341 275 (2003 est). Area: 5972 sq km (2329 sq miles)
- charette — a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
- chargeth — Archaic third-person singular form of charge.
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- charters — Plural form of charter.
- chartlet — a small chart indicating some special thing, as information relative to a radio navigational aid.
- chartres — a city in NW France: Gothic cathedral; market town. Pop: 41 588 (2006)
- chatters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chatter.
- chattery — to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
- chattier — Comparative form of chatty.