8-letter words containing tr
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- bystreet — an obscure or secondary street
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- cartroad — a rough track or road in a rural area
- castrate — To castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles.
- castrati — a male singer, especially in the 18th century, castrated before puberty to prevent his soprano or contralto voice range from changing.
- castrato — (in 17th- and 18th-century opera) a male singer whose testicles were removed before puberty, allowing the retention of a soprano or alto voice
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- centrale — (anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
- centries — Plural form of centry.
- centring — a temporary structure, esp one made of timber, used to support an arch during construction
- centrism — (especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- centrist — Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme.
- centrode — a locus produced by plotting the course of the instantaneous centre of two bodies in relative motion
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- cextract — (programming, tool) A C prototype extractor by Adam Bryant <[email protected]>. cextract can generate header files for large multi-file C programs, and will automatically generate prototypes for all of the functions in such a program. It can also generate a sorted list of all functions and their locations. cextract version 1.7 works with both ANSI C and K&R C and runs under Unix and VMS. Posted to comp.sources.reviewed.
- chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch
- chartres — a city in NW France: Gothic cathedral; market town. Pop: 41 588 (2006)
- chatroom — a site on the internet, or another computer network, where users have group discussions by electronic mail, typically about one subject
- choultry — Alternative form of choltry.
- chytrids — Plural form of chytrid.
- cicatrix — the tissue that forms in a wound during healing; scar
- cilantro — Cilantro is the leaves of the coriander plant that are used as an herb.
- cistrons — Plural form of cistron.
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- citrated — treated with a citrate
- citrates — Plural form of citrate.
- citreous — of a greenish-yellow colour; citron
- citrines — Plural form of citrine.
- citrinin — an antibiotic derived from the fungus Penicillium citrinum
- citruses — Plural form of citrus.
- citrussy — having or resembling the taste or colour of a citrus fruit
- claptrap — If you describe something that someone says as claptrap, you mean that it is stupid or foolish although it may sound important.
- claustra — barrier.
- coatrack — a rack or stand for the temporary hanging or storing of coats, hats, etc.
- coatroom — A coatroom is the same as a coat check.
- coistrel — a knave
- coltrane — John (William). 1926–67, US jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer
- construe — If something is construed in a particular way, its nature or meaning is interpreted in that way.
- contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
- contrail — a white trail of condensed water vapor that sometimes forms in the wake of an aircraft; vapor trail
- contrair — contrary
- contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
- contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.