8-letter words starting with tra
- trancing — a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- tranquil — free from commotion or tumult; peaceful; quiet; calm: a tranquil country place.
- transact — to carry on or conduct (business, negotiations, activities, etc.) to a conclusion or settlement. Synonyms: enact, conclude, settle, manage, negotiate.
- transect — to cut across; dissect transversely.
- transept — any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
- transfer — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transfix — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- tranship — transship
- transing — to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
- transire — a document allowing goods to pass through customs
- transkei — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa on the Indian Ocean: granted independence in 1976 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,910 sq. mi. (43,798 sq. km). Capital: Umtata.
- transmit — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- transnet — the official rail and transport service in South Africa
- transude — to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
- transume — to make an official transcription of
- trap car — a railroad car used at a terminal for collecting and distributing freight.
- trap cut — step cut.
- trap gun — a firearm designed for trapshooting.
- trapball — an old game in which a ball placed on the hollowed end of a trap is thrown into the air by striking the other end of the trap with a bat and then driven to a distance with the bat.
- trapdoor — a door flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof.
- trapezia — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- trapfall — a trapdoor that opens under the feet
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- trapnest — a nesting box that can be entered but not exited by a hen, which is then released once its eggs have been counted
- trappean — of, relating to, or consisting of igneous rock, esp a basalt
- trapping — traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage.
- trappist — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a branch of the Cistercian order, observing the austere reformed rule established at La Trappe in 1664.
- trappose — relating to traprock
- traprock — trap3 .
- trapunto — quilting having an embossed design produced by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton.
- trash-80 — Derogatory name for Tandy's TRS-80.
- trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- trashman — a person who collects trash for removal in a truck.
- trauchle — to fatigue; tire; wear out.
- travails — painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
- traveled — used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock.
- traveler — a person or thing that travels.
- travelog — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- traverse — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- travesty — a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
- trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
- traybake — a flat, usually chewy cake which is baked in a tray, cut into small squares, and served as a biscuit