4-letter words containing t, r
- tarp — tarpaulin.
- tart — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
- tavr — Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
- tear — the act of tearing.
- teer — to plaster or cover with (clay, earth, etc)
- ter- — three, third, or three times
- term — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- tern — a set of three.
- thar — any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
- thor — Scandinavian Mythology. the god of thunder, rain, and farming, represented as riding a chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer Mjolnir: the defender of the Aesir, destined to kill and be killed by the Midgard Serpent.
- thro — through.
- thru — dates: up to, including
- thur — Thursday
- tier — a person or thing that ties.
- tigr — Treasury Investment Growth Receipts: a bond denominated in dollars and linked to US treasury bonds, the yield on which is taxed in the UK as income when it is cashed or redeemed
- tire — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.
- tirl — a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- tiro — tyro.
- tirr — to strip or take clothes off
- tmrc — /tmerk'/ The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture. The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see especially foo, mung, and frob). By 1962, TMRC's legendary layout was already a marvel of complexity (and has grown in the thirty years since; all the features described here are still present). The control system alone featured about 1200 relays. There were scram switches located at numerous places around the room that could be thwacked if something undesirable was about to occur, such as a train going full-bore at an obstruction. Another feature of the system was a digital clock on the dispatch board, which was itself something of a wonder in those bygone days before cheap LEDS and seven-segment displays. When someone hit a scram switch the clock stopped and the display was replaced with the word "FOO"; at TMRC the scram switches are therefore called "foo switches". Steven Levy, in his book "Hackers", gives a stimulating account of those early years. TMRC's Power and Signals group included most of the early PDP-1 hackers and the people who later bacame the core of the MIT AI Lab staff. This dictionary accordingly includes a number of entries from the TMRC dictionary (via the Hacker Jargon File).
- tora — the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament. Compare Tanach.
- torc — torque (def 4).
- tore — simple past tense of tear2 .
- tori — plural of torus.
- torn — past participle of tear2 .
- toro — a bull.
- torr — a unit of pressure, being the pressure necessary to support a column of mercury one millimeter high at 0°C and standard gravity, equal to 1333.2 microbars.
- tort — a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.
- tory — a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- tour — Georges de [zhawrzh duh] /ʒɔrʒ də/ (Show IPA), 1593–1652, French painter.
- tra- — trans-
- trac — Text Reckoning And Compiling
- trad — traditional
- tram — silk that has been slightly or loosely twisted, used weftwise in weaving silk fabrics.
- trap — a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
- trat — a type of fishing line holding a series of baited hooks
- tray — a coin worth threepence.
- tree — Sir Herbert Beerbohm [beer-bohm] /ˈbɪər boʊm/ (Show IPA), (Herbert Beerbohm) 1853–1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm.
- tref — Judaism. unfit to be eaten or used, according to religious laws; not kosher.
- trek — to travel or migrate, especially slowly or with difficulty.
- tres — very
- tret — (formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- trey — a playing card or a die having three pips.
- tri- — Tri- is used at the beginning of nouns and adjectives that have 'three' as part of their meaning.
- trig — a wedge or block used to prevent a wheel, cask, or the like, from rolling.
- trim — to put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning, etc.: to trim a hedge.
- trin — three young born during one birth; triplets
- trio — a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- trip — a group of animals, as sheep, goats, or fowl; flock.
- trit — triturate