5-letter words containing t, r, o
- throe — a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
- throw — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- timor — an island in the S part of Indonesia: largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands; E half formerly belonged to Portugal. 13,095 sq. mi. (33,913 sq. km).
- tirol — an alpine region in W Austria and N Italy: a former Austrian crown land.
- tiros — one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- tolar — the basic monetary unit of Slovenia until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 stotins.
- toner — a person or thing that tones.
- toper — a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- torah — the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament. Compare Tanach.
- toran — (in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture) a gateway having two or three lintels between two posts.
- toras — the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament. Compare Tanach.
- torch — 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.
- tores — a torus.
- toric — noting or pertaining to a lens with a surface forming a portion of a torus, used for eyeglasses and contact lenses that correct astigmatism.
- torii — (in Japan) a form of decorative gateway or portal, consisting of two upright wooden posts connected at the top by two horizontal crosspieces, commonly found at the entrance to Shinto temples.
- torme — Melvin Howard ("Mel"; "The Velvet Fog") 1925–99, U.S. jazz singer, actor, and composer.
- torne — a river in N Sweden, forming part of the Swedish-Finnish border, flowing SE to the Gulf of Bothnia. 354 miles (570 km) long.
- toros — a bull.
- torse — a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- torsi — a plural of torso.
- torsk — a cod.
- torso — the trunk of the human body.
- torta — a flat circular pile of silver ore
- torte — a rich cake, especially one containing little or no flour, usually made with eggs and ground nuts or bread crumbs.
- torun — a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- torus — Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- toter — to carry, as on one's back or in one's arms: to tote a bundle.
- toure — Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- tours — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- tower — the fiber of flax, hemp, or jute prepared for spinning by scutching.
- trigo — wheat; field of wheat.
- triol — a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- troad — The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- troas — The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- troat — (of a rutting buck) to call or bellow
- troia — Troy Game, The.
- trois — the number 3.
- troke — truck2 (defs 4–7).
- troll — to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
- tromp — to tramp or trample.
- trona — a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- tronc — a pool into which waiters, waitresses, hotel workers, etc, pay their tips and into which some managements pay service charges for later distribution to staff by a tronc master, according to agreed percentages
- trone — a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- tronk — a jail
- troop — an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- trope — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- troth — faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty: by my troth.
- trots — trotting races
- trout — any of several game fishes of the genus Salmo, related to the salmon. Compare brown trout, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout.
- trove — a collection of objects.