8-letter words containing t, r, e, i, n
- rinehart — Mary Roberts, 1876–1958, U.S. novelist and playwright.
- ringette — a team sport played on ice, using straight sticks to control a rubber ring
- ringlets — locks of hair hanging down in spiral curls
- ringster — a member of a ring, especially a political or price-fixing ring.
- ringtone — telephone's ringing sound
- ritenuto — held back momentarily
- riveting — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- rodentia — the order comprising the rodents.
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- routeing — (networking) (US "routing") /roo'ting/ The process, performed by a router, of selecting the correct interface and next hop for a packet being forwarded. This is the British and international standard spelling. See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol.
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rudiment — Usually, rudiments. the elements or first principles of a subject: the rudiments of grammar. a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something: the rudiments of a plan.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- run time — 1. The elapsed time to perform a computation on a particular computer. 2. The amount of time a processor actually spent on a particular process and not on other processes or overhead (see time-sharing). 3. The period of time during which a program is being executed, as opposed to compile-time or load time. The term should be hyphenated when used as an adjective. 4. run-time support.
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- ruthenic — containing ruthenium in a higher valence state than the corresponding ruthenious compound.
- santeria — (sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.
- scienter — a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s action, statement, etc., is wrong, deceptive, or illegal: often used as a standard of guilt: The court found that the company had the requisite scienter for securities fraud.
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- secretin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- senorita — a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- sentries — a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- serenity — the state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil; sereneness.
- serotine — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- serotiny — the quality or condition of being serotine
- servient — subordinate; subservient; subject to another
- signoret — Simone (simɔ̃), original name Simone Kaminker. 1921–85, French stage and film actress, whose films include La Ronde (1950), Casque d'Or (1952), Room at the Top (1958), and Ship of Fools (1965): married the actor and singer Yves Montand (1921–91)
- sinister — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- sirvente — a medieval poem or song of heroic or satirical character, as composed by a troubadour.
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
- spinster — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- sprinter — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- stearine — Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 1 8 H 3 5 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- steering — Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip: He got a good steer about finding the right job.
- sterling — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- sternite — a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- stinkier — foul smelling; stinking.
- 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.
- stricken — a past participle of strike.
- strident — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- strigine — of or like an owl
- stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
- stringer — a person or thing that strings.
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft