8-letter words containing tor
- formator — (semiotics) A symbol that indicates a relationship between designators.
- fostoria — a city in N Ohio.
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- fumitory — any plant of the genus Fumaria, especially a delicate herb, F. officinalis, having finely dissected, grayish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- genitors — Plural form of genitor.
- grantors — Plural form of grantor.
- gyratory — moving in a circle or spiral; gyrating.
- hectored — Simple past form of hector.
- hectorer — a person who bullies or hectors
- hectorly — in the manner of a hector
- heritors — Plural form of heritor.
- herstory — history (used especially in feminist literature and in women's studies as an alternative form to distinguish or emphasize the particular experience of women).
- historic — well-known or important in history: a historic building; historic occasions.
- historie — Archaic spelling of history.
- hydrator — something that hydrates.
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- idolator — Alternative spelling of idolater.
- imitator — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
- impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- impostor — a person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name.
- in store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- in-store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- indentor — to form deep recesses in: The sea indents the coast.
- indictor — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- infector — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- injector — a person or thing that injects.
- intorted — twisted inwardly about an axis or fixed point; curled; wound: intorted horns.
- intortus — (of a cirrus cloud) having very irregular filaments that often look entangled.
- inventor — a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.
- invertor — any muscle that turns a limb or part inward.
- investor — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- invitors — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- isolator — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- iterator — One which iterates.
- janitors — Plural form of janitor.
- juratory — pertaining to, constituting, or expressed in an oath.
- laudator — One who lauds.
- lavatory — a room fitted with equipment for washing the hands and face and usually with flush toilet facilities.
- levators — Plural form of levator.
- libatory — relating to libation
- littoral — of or relating to the shore of a lake, sea, or ocean.
- locators — Plural form of locator.
- locutory — locutorium.
- mandator — a person who gives a mandate.
- mediator — a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.