8-letter words containing tr
- étranger — a foreigner
- étrennes — a New Year's gift
- etruscan — a member of an ancient people of central Italy whose civilization influenced the Romans, who had suppressed them by about 200 bc
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- eustress — Moderate or normal psychological stress interpreted as being beneficial for the experiencer.
- eutrophy — (medicine) healthy nutrition.
- eutropic — of, relating to or characterized by eutropy
- executry — the office or activities of an executor; an executorship
- extracts — Plural form of extract.
- extrados — The upper or outer curve of an arch.
- extranet — An intranet that can be partially accessed by authorized outside users, enabling businesses to exchange information over the Internet securely.
- extremal — (mathematics) Having to do with extrema.
- extremer — Comparative form of extreme.
- extremes — Plural form of extreme.
- extremum — The maximum or minimum value of a function.
- extrorse — Turned outward.
- extruded — Simple past tense and past participle of extrude.
- extruder — A machine that extrudes material through shaped dies.
- extrudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extrude.
- faggotry — (pejorative, slang) The quality of being a faggot (homosexual).
- fattrels — a collection of ribbon-ends
- fenestra — Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or perforation, as in a bone, especially between the middle and inner ear.
- fewtrils — trifles; things of little value
- filtrate — liquid that has been passed through a filter.
- finestra — an aperture, especially a ventilator in the wall of a tomb.
- fir tree — conifer
- firetrap — a building that, because of its age, material, structure, or the like, is especially dangerous in case of fire.
- fly trap — any of various plants that entrap insects, especially Venus's-flytrap.
- flytraps — Plural form of flytrap.
- footrace — a race run by contestants on foot.
- footrest — a support for a person's feet, as an attachment to a barber's chair or a dentist's chair.
- footrope — the portion of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewn.
- footrule — rigid measure, one foot in length
- forestry — the science of planting and taking care of trees and forests.
- fortrash — (abuse, language) /for'trash/ Hackerism for the Fortran language, referring to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax, limited control constructs, and slippery, exception-filled semantics.
- fortress — a large fortified place; a fort or group of forts, often including a town; citadel.
- fostress — a female fosterer
- fox trot — a slow gait in which a horse moves its forelegs in a trot and its hind legs in a long-striding pace
- fox-trot — to dance a fox trot.
- g-string — a loincloth or breechcloth, usually secured by a cord at the waist.
- gadgetry — mechanical or electronic contrivances; gadgets: the gadgetry of the well-equipped modern kitchen.
- gannetry — a gannet breeding-ground
- gantries — Plural form of gantry.
- gastraea — a primeval double-walled sac-like form whose existence was hypothesized by Ernst Haeckel, who proposed that all animals were descended from it
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.
- gematria — a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- genetrix — a female progenitor
- gentrice — gentility; high birth.
- gentries — Plural form of gentry.