8-letter words containing t, u, a, r, e
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- quartern — a quarter, or a fourth part, especially of certain weights and measures, as of a pound, ounce, peck, or pint.
- quarters — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- quartets — Plural form of quartet.
- quartier — a city district
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- quartzes — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quatorze — a set of four cards of the same denomination, aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, scoring 14 points.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- ramentum — a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- raptured — (especially of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.
- raptures — expressions of ecstatic joy
- rathenau — Walther [vahl-tuh r] /ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1867–1922, German industrialist, writer, and statesman.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- re-audit — an official examination and verification of accounts and records, especially of financial accounts.
- read out — an act or instance of reading: Give the agreement a careful read before you sign it.
- read-out — an act or instance of reading: Give the agreement a careful read before you sign it.
- readjust — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
- rebuttal — an act of rebutting, as in a debate.
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- reduzate — a sediment that has not undergone oxidation, as of coal, oil, sulfur, and sulfides.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- renature — to restore (a denatured substance) to its former, natural state.
- requital — the act of requiting.
- resalute — to salute or greet again
- retaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.
- reuptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- rosulate — forming a rosette or rosettes.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- runagate — a fugitive or runaway.
- ruralite — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- rustable — liable to rust
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sarraute — Nathalie [na-ta-lee] /na taˈli/ (Show IPA), (Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak) 1900–1999, French novelist, born in Russia.
- saturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- sauterne — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- serratus — any of various muscles in the thorax, which produce the appearance of a serrated border by their arrangement
- squatter — the act or fact of squatting.
- statured — of or having a stature of a certain kind (usually used in combination): the short-statured inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula.
- statures — the height of a human or animal body.