9-letter words containing t, o, r, e, a, i
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- seriation — the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serration — serrated condition or form.
- sex ratio — the proportional distribution of the sexes in a population aggregate, expressed as the number of males per 100 females.
- solitaire — Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- sorediate — having soredia
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- steroidal — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- taylorite — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- tear into — 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.
- tectorial — a rooflike structure.
- tentorial — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- teratosis — teratism (def 2).
- textorial — relating to weaving or weavers
- thorazine — chlorpromazine
- timor sea — an arm of the Indian Ocean, between Timor and NW Australia.
- tirewoman — a lady's maid.
- torbanite — Petrology. a dark-brown oil shale containing a large amount of carbonaceous matter.
- totalizer — a person or thing that totals.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- trasimeno — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- trebbiano — a type of grape and vine cultivated in Italy for making wine (by the same name)
- trematoid — relating to a trematode
- trialogue — a discussion or conversation in which three persons or groups participate.
- trilobate — having three lobes.
- tritanope — a person who cannot distinguish the colour blue
- tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
- uvarovite — Mineralogy. a variety of garnet colored emerald-green by the presence of chromium.
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
- video art — an art form involving the creative exploitation of video technology to produce videotapes for viewing on a television screen.
- waterzooi — A type of Flemish stew, traditionally made with fish.