8-letter words containing t
- a trifle — You can use a trifle to mean slightly or to a small extent, especially in order to make something you say seem less extreme.
- a-plenty — in sufficient quantity; in generous amounts (usually used following the noun it modifies): He had troubles aplenty.
- a/b test — Digital Technology. a comparison of two or more versions of a web page or app in simultaneous use to assess which is the optimized version for achieving a specified design goal or performance metric.
- aaronite — one of the priestly descendants of Aaron.
- ab extra — from the outside.
- ab intra — from within
- abastard — To abastardize. (Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 17th century.).
- abatable — able to be abated
- abatjour — A skylight or other device whose purpose it is to direct light into a room.
- abattage — the slaughter of animals, especially the slaughter of diseased animals to prevent the infection of others.
- abattoir — An abattoir is a place where animals are killed in order to provide meat.
- abatures — Plural form of abature.
- abbatial — of or relating to an abbot, abbess, or abbey
- abdicant — a person who abdicates
- abdicate — If a king or queen abdicates, he or she gives up being king or queen.
- abducent — (of a muscle) abducting
- abducted — Simple past tense and past participle of abduct.
- abductee — someone who is abducted
- abductor — any muscle that abducts (opposed to adductor).
- abeokuta — a town in W Nigeria, capital of Ogun state. Pop: 487 000 (2005 est)
- aberrant — Aberrant means unusual and not socially acceptable.
- aberrate — to deviate from what is normal or correct
- abetment — to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing: to abet a swindler; to abet a crime.
- abetting — to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing: to abet a swindler; to abet a crime.
- abettors — Plural form of abettor.
- abiathar — a priest of Israel and a companion of David. I Sam. 22:20; II Sam. 15:24–36.
- abietate — a salt or ester of abietic acid.
- abington — urban township in SE Pa., near Philadelphia: pop. 56,000
- abitrary — Misspelling of arbitrary.
- abjectly — utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
- ablating — Present participle of ablate.
- ablation — the surgical removal of an organ, structure, or part
- ablative — (in certain inflected languages such as Latin) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument, manner, or place of the action described by the verb
- ablators — Plural form of ablator.
- ablegate — a papal envoy who has important duties abroad such as bringing a cardinal's insignia to him when he has just been appointed, or taking a message to a sovereign
- abligate — (obsolete) To tie up so as to hinder from.
- abluting — Present participle of ablute.
- ablution — the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels
- abnegate — to deny to oneself; renounce (privileges, pleasure, etc)
- aboiteau — (Canada, Acadia) alternate form of aboideau.
- aborting — Present participle of abort.
- abortion — If a woman has an abortion, she ends her pregnancy deliberately so that the baby is not born alive.
- abortive — An abortive attempt or action is unsuccessful.
- about to — on the point of; intending to
- abradant — abrading
- abration — Misspelling of abrasion.
- abristle — Bristling.
- abrogate — If someone in a position of authority abrogates something such as a law, agreement, or practice, they put an end to it.
- abrupted — Simple past tense and past participle of abrupt.
- abruptly — sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.