8-letter words containing tr
- minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
- misentry — an incorrect or mistaken entry
- mismetre — to fail to follow (the metre of a poem, verse, etc)
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- mistrack — To track incorrectly.
- mistrain — to train or guide incorrectly
- mistrals — Plural form of mistral.
- mistreat — to treat badly or abusively.
- mistress — a woman who has authority, control, or power, especially the female head of a household, institution, or other establishment.
- mistrial — a trial terminated without conclusion on the merits of the case because of some error in the proceedings.
- mistrust — lack of trust or confidence; distrust.
- mistruth — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
- mistryst — to fail to meet or to keep an appointment with (someone).
- monitrix — (archaic) A female monitor; a monitress.
- montreal — a seaport in S Quebec, in E Canada, on an island (Montreal Island) in the St. Lawrence.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- montrose — James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
- musketry — Military. the technique of bringing fire from a group of rifle and automatic weapons to bear on specified targets.
- negatron — Also called negatron. Physics, Chemistry. an elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of matter, having a negative charge of 1.602 × 10 −19 coulombs, a mass of 9.108 × 10 −31 kilograms, and spin of ½, and existing independently or as the component outside the nucleus of an atom.
- netrebko — Anna. born 1971, Russian operatic soprano
- netroots — Grassroots political activism on the internet, especially on blogs.
- neustria — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- neutrals — Plural form of neutral.
- neutrino — any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.
- neutrois — noting or relating to a person of neutral gender who also lacks a specific gender identity.
- neutrons — Plural form of neutron.
- ngultrum — a paper money, cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of Bhutan, equal to 100 chetrums.
- nim tree — neem (def 2).
- nitrated — Reacted, or treated with nitric acid or a nitrate.
- nitrates — Plural form of nitrate.
- nitrator — A reaction vessel in which nitration takes place.
- nitrides — Plural form of nitride.
- nitrites — Plural form of nitrite.
- nitrogen — a colorless, odorless, gaseous element that constitutes about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere and is present in combined form in animal and vegetable tissues, especially in proteins: used chiefly in the manufacture of ammonia, nitric acid, cyanide, explosives, fertilizer, dyes, as a cooling agent, etc. Symbol: N; atomic weight: 14.0067; atomic number: 7; density: 1.2506 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- nitrolic — of or noting a series of acids of the type RC(=NOH)NO 2 , whose salts form deep-red solutions.
- nitroso- — of or containing nitrosyl
- nitrosyl — nitroso.
- nitroxyl — the chemical compound HNO
- no entry — no way in
- no-trump — (of a hand, bid, or contract) without a trump suit; noting a bid or contract to be played without naming a trump suit.
- nonentry — the failure of a tenant's heir to renew investiture after the tenant's death
- nonmetro — Nonmetropolitan.
- nontrump — (of a playing card) not of the trump suit
- noometry — a term used by the satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock to mean 'measurement of the mind'
- nostrils — either of the two external openings of the nose.
- nostromo — a novel (1904) by Joseph Conrad.
- nostrums — a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- not true — unbelievable; remarkable
- nutrient — nourishing; providing nourishment or nutriment.