11-letter words containing tr
- gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
- geiger tree — a small, shapely evergreen, Cordia sebestena, native to the Florida Keys, South America, Yucatan, and the West Indies, having orange and red flowers and small pear-shaped fruit.
- gentrifiers — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- gentrifying — Present participle of gentrify.
- geocentrism — A belief that Earth is the center of the universe and does not move.
- geometrical — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- geometrized — Simple past tense and past participle of geometrize.
- geostrategy — The strategic use of geopolitics.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- ghost train — a small train at an amusement park that travels through a dark tunnel in which sounds, lights, and mechanized objects are used to scare the people in the train
- go straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- going train — the gear train for moving the hands of a timepiece or giving some other visual indication of the time.
- goitrogenic — tending to produce goiter.
- gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
- goniometric — Of, relating to, or determined by a goniometer.
- goods train — freight train.
- gravimetric — of or relating to measurement by weight.
- gravy train — a position in which a person or group receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort: The top executives were on the gravy train with their huge bonuses.
- gros ventre — a river in W central Wyoming, flowing W to the Snake River. 100 miles (161 km) long.
- grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
- guiltridden — Alternative spelling of guilt-ridden.
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gun control — government regulation of the sale and ownership of firearms.
- gynocentric — Centered on or concerned exclusively with women; taking a female (or specifically a feminist) point of view.
- h-stretcher — a stretcher having the form of an H .
- hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
- hairstreaks — Plural form of hairstreak.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- haptotropic — relating to haptotropism
- head-strict — (theory) A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
- headstreams — Plural form of headstream.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heat stroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
- heliometric — Of or relating to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
- heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
- heliotropic — turning or growing toward the light.
- heliotropin — piperonal.
- hemielytron — hemelytron.
- hemotrophic — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- heterotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Heterotricha, having the body covered uniformly with short cilia.
- heterotroph — Biology. an organism requiring organic compounds for its principal source of food.
- hexametrist — a person who writes in hexameters
- hexametrize — to write or put into hexameters
- hexanitrate — any compound containing six nitrate groups.
- high street — town's main street
- high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- hippiatrics — the study of the diseases of horses