8-letter words containing t, r, o, c
- racahout — a substance similar to chocolate prepared as either a food or drink and made from acorns and cocoa
- rack out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- raincoat — a waterproof or water-repellent coat worn as protection against rain.
- re-count — to count again.
- reaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- recaptor — someone who recaptures something that had been taken
- receptor — Physiology. an end organ or a group of end organs of sensory or afferent neurons, specialized to be sensitive to stimulating agents, as touch or heat.
- reclothe — to clothe (someone or something) again or provide new clothing for (someone)
- recollet — member of a particular Franciscan order
- recommit — to commit again.
- rectoral — of or relating to God's rule
- redactor — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reductor — a tube with a stopcock at one end, usually filled with a metal, for reducing a constituent in a solution.
- relocate — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- renotice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- reobject — to object again
- retinoic — containing or derived from retinoid
- retroact — to act in opposition; react.
- rhetoric — (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
- ricochet — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
- riot act — an English statute of 1715 providing that if 12 or more persons assemble unlawfully and riotously, to the disturbance of the public peace, and refuse to disperse upon proclamation they shall be considered guilty of felony.
- robotics — the use of computer-controlled robots to perform manual tasks, especially on an assembly line.
- rock art — painting or engraving on rock
- rock out — listen enthusiastically to pop music
- rocketed — any of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.
- rocketer — a game bird such as a pheasant that launches itself into the air like a rocket after it is forced to take flight, for example by a dog
- rocketry — the science of rocket design, development, and flight.
- romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- root cap — the loose mass of epidermal cells covering the apex of most roots, serving to protect the meristematic cells behind it.
- rose-cut — (of a gemstone) cut with a hemispherical faceted crown and a flat base
- ructions — disturbance
- ructious — tending or likely to cause ructions
- scordato — out of tune
- scouther — to scorch or singe
- scranton — William Warren, 1917–2011, U.S. politician.
- scrootch — to crouch, squeeze, or huddle (usually followed by down, in, or up).
- sculptor — artist who sculpts
- scutwork — menial, routine work, as that done by an underling: the scutwork of scrubbing pots and pans.
- sectator — a member or follower of a sect
- sectoral — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- seductor — a person, usually a man, who seduces
- selector — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- shortcut — a shorter or quicker way.
- slot car — a miniature, electrically-operated toy racing car that runs on a slotted track and is controlled by an operator with a handheld rheostat.
- socrates — 469?–399 b.c, Athenian philosopher.
- socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- softcore — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
- sorbitic — relating to sorbite
- sortance — suitableness
- spectro- — indicating a spectrum