8-letter words containing tra
- oistrakh — David [dey-vid] /ˈdeɪ vɪd/ (Show IPA), 1908–74, Russian violinist.
- on track — heading for sth
- ostracod — seed shrimp.
- ostracon — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- ostrakon — ostracon.
- out tray — An out tray is a shallow container used in offices to put letters and documents in when they have been dealt with and are ready to be sent somewhere else. Compare in tray.
- outraced — Simple past tense and past participle of outrace.
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- outraise — To raise more of something than someone else; often used specifically in reference to fundraising.
- outrance — the utmost extremity.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- outtrade — to outdo in trading; get the better of in a trade.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- pastrami — a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.
- petrarch — (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74, Italian poet and scholar.
- pfortran — Parallel Fortran
- plastral — of or relating to a plastron.
- portrait — a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- pretrain — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- protract — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- protrade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- rat trap — a device for catching rats
- rat-trap — a device for catching rats.
- re-trace — to trace again, as lines in writing or drawing.
- restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- retracer — someone or something which retraces
- retraitt — a portrait
- rostrate — furnished with a rostrum.
- satrapal — relating to a satrap or satrapy
- sceptral — of, resembling, or relating to a sceptre
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- straddle — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- stradiot — a soldier, usually of Greek or Albanian origin, who fought on horseback for the Venetian republic in the 15th and 16th centuries
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straggly — straggling; rambling.
- straicht — straight
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- strainer — a person or thing that strains.
- straiten — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- straitly — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.