8-letter words containing tor
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- testator — a person who makes a will.
- titrator — a device used to perform titration
- 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
- toreador — a bullfighter; torero.
- toreutic — of or relating to toreutics or the objects produced by this technique.
- torminal — of or relating to tormina
- 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).
- tornaria — the ciliated, free-swimming larva of certain hemichordates.
- tornillo — screw bean.
- toroidal — of or relating to a toroid.
- torpidly — inactive or sluggish.
- torquate — ringed about the neck, as with feathers or a color; collared.
- torquing — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
- torralba — the site of a Lower Paleolithic hunting and butchering station east of Madrid, in the province of Soria, Spain, characterized by butchered elephant remains, stone hand axes, cleavers, and scrapers, and rare pieces of worked wood.
- 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.
- torshavn — the capital of the Faeroe Islands, on the S tip of Streymoy Island.
- tortelli — pasta that is folded around a filling and boiled
- tortilla — a thin, round, unleavened bread prepared from cornmeal or sometimes wheat flour, baked on a flat plate of iron, earthenware, or the like.
- tortious — of the nature of or pertaining to a tort.
- tortoise — a turtle, especially a terrestrial turtle.
- tortuous — full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path.
- tortured — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- torturer — sb who tortures
- torulose — (of something cylindrical) alternately swollen and pinched along its length
- traditor — an early Christian who betrayed other Christians at the time of the Roman persecutions.
- trimotor — an airplane or other vehicle that has three motors.
- tutorage — the office, authority, or care of a tutor.
- tutoress — a woman who is a tutor.
- tutorial — pertaining to or exercised by a tutor: tutorial functions or authority.
- tutoring — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- tutorism — the office or duties of a tutor
- tutorize — to tutor or instruct (a person)
- urinator — someone who urinates
- valuator — to set a value on; appraise.
- vanitory — a combined dressing table and lavatory basin.
- varactor — a semiconductor diode whose capacitance changes to match applied voltage, used to tune circuits by varying the reactance.
- varistor — a resistor whose resistance automatically varies in proportion to the voltage of the current through it.
- vector c — (language) A variant of C from CMU(?), similar to ACTUS.
- vexatory — vexing, inconvenient, or irritating
- viatores — a wayfarer; traveler.
- vibrator — a person or thing that vibrates.
- victor i — Saint, pope a.d. 189–198.
- victoria — a province in W Canada on the Pacific coast. 366,255 sq. mi. (948,600 sq. km). Capital: Victoria.
- victorio — 1809?–80, leader of the Chiricahua Apache tribe.