8-letter words starting with to
- top boot — a high boot, especially one having a cuff of a different material, color, etc., from the rest of the boot.
- top copy — (in a duplicated document) the sheet on which something is actually typed or written
- top gear — the highest gear in a motor vehicle
- top hand — a person who is highly skilled in some activity, esp a ranch worker
- top kick — a first sergeant.
- top kill — a technique in which a heavy fluid, usually drilling mud, is pumped into a leaking oil well to stop the flow of oil: The top kill is underway, but success remains uncertain as engineers desperately pump mud into the damaged blowout preventer.
- top plug — A top plug is a rubber seal in the casing string, which stops the fluid used in drilling from contaminating cement slurry.
- top-down — See under structured programming.
- top-hole — first-rate.
- topalgia — pain restricted to a particular spot: a neurotic or hysterical symptom
- topazine — like topaz
- topcross — an animal resulting from the mating of animals between different family lines within the same breed
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- topkhana — a building where artillery, ammunition, etc., are made, repaired, and stored.
- topliner — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.
- toplofty — condescending; haughty.
- topmaker — a wool dealer who specializes in selling wool tops to spinners
- topnotch — first-rate: a topnotch job.
- topolect — the dialects of a specific area collectively, constituting a variety of a language.
- topology — the study of those properties of geometric forms that remain invariant under certain transformations, as bending or stretching.
- topolski — Feliks (fiːlɪks). 1907–89, British painter, born in Poland; best known for his sketches and murals, esp for Memoir of the Century (1975–89) painted on viaduct arches on London's South Bank
- toponymy — the study of toponyms.
- topotype — a specimen from the locality at which the type was first collected.
- topscore — to be the highest scorer in a sports match or competition
- topsider — a light canvas shoe
- topsmelt — a silversides, Atherinops affinis, of waters along the Pacific coast of North America: valued as a food fish.
- topstone — a stone forming the top of something
- 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.