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8-letter words containing t, r, o, c

  • sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
  • strontic — of or relating to strontium
  • strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
  • te score — Tertiary Entrance score: a score based on a pupil's performance in secondary school that determines his or her prospects of gaining entrance to tertiary educational institutions
  • the crow — the constellation Corvus
  • theocrat — a person who rules, governs as a representative of God or a deity, or is a member of the ruling group in a theocracy, as a divine king or a high priest.
  • thoracal — of or relating to the thorax.
  • thoraces — Anatomy. the part of the trunk in humans and higher vertebrates between the neck and the abdomen, containing the cavity, enclosed by the ribs, sternum, and certain vertebrae, in which the heart, lungs, etc., are situated; chest.
  • thoracic — of or relating to the thorax.
  • thoraco- — thorax
  • thurrock — unitary authority in Essex, SE England, on the N of the Thames River. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
  • topcross — an animal resulting from the mating of animals between different family lines within the same breed
  • topscore — to be the highest scorer in a sports match or competition
  • torchere — a tall stand for a candelabrum.
  • torchier — of, relating to, or characteristic of a torch song or a torch singer.
  • torching — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
  • torchlit — illuminated by the light of a torch or torches
  • torcular — a tourniquet or bandage
  • toreutic — of or relating to toreutics or the objects produced by this technique.
  • tornadic — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
  • torrance — a city in SW California, SW of Los Angeles.
  • torrence — (Frederic) Ridgely [rij-lee] /ˈrɪdʒ li/ (Show IPA), 1875–1950, U.S. poet, playwright, and editor.
  • tovarich — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
  • town car — an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.
  • toxocara — a parasitic worm infesting the intestines of cats and dogs
  • tracheo- — denoting the trachea
  • trachoma — a chronic, contagious infection of the conjunctiva and cornea, characterized by the formation of granulations and scarring and caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
  • traction — the adhesive friction of a body on some surface, as a wheel on a rail or a tire on a road.
  • traprock — trap3 .
  • trecento — the 14th century, with reference to Italy, and especially to its art or literature.
  • triazoic — hydrazoic.
  • trichion — the point of intersection of the normal hairline and the middle line of the forehead.
  • trichoid — resembling hair; hairlike.
  • trichome — Botany. an outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair.
  • trichord — a musical instrument with three strings
  • tricolor — Also, tricolored; especially British, tricoloured. having three colors.
  • trifocal — Optics. having three foci.
  • trigonic — pertaining to a trigon
  • tripodic — having or using three feet or legs.
  • trisomic — having one chromosome in addition to the usual diploid number.
  • trochaic — pertaining to the trochee.
  • troches' — a small tablet or lozenge, usually a circular one, made of medicinal substance worked into a paste with sugar and mucilage or the like, and dried.
  • trochite — an individual section of the stalk of a fossil crinoid, resembling a small wheel
  • trochlea — a pulleylike structure or arrangement of parts.
  • trochoid — Geometry. a curve traced by a point on a radius or an extension of the radius of a circle that rolls, without slipping, on a curve, another circle, or a straight line. Equation: x = aθ − b sin θ, y = a − b cos θ.
  • tropical — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
  • trouncer — a person who trounces someone or something
  • turbocar — a car driven by a gas turbine
  • turcoman — Turkoman.
  • turncoat — a person who changes to the opposite party or faction, reverses principles, etc.; renegade.
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