11-letter words containing tr
- power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
- pre-control — to hold in check; curb: to control a horse; to control one's emotions.
- precentress — a female precentor
- preceptress — a woman who is an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- precontract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- prestressed — (of steel cables, wires, etc, of a precast concrete part) that has been prestressed
- pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- pro-oestrus — proestrus.
- prolocutrix — a female prolocutor
- proprietrix — proprietress.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- prostration — the act of prostrating.
- protectress — a woman who guards or defends someone or something; protector.
- prototrophy — the state of being a prototroph
- protractile — capable of being protracted, lengthened, or protruded.
- protraction — the act of protracting; prolongation; extension.
- protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- puff pastry — a light, flaky, rich pastry made by rolling dough with butter and folding it to form layers: used for tarts, napoleons, etc.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- quaintrelle — (obscure) A woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.
- quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- queen truss — a truss having queen posts with no king post.
- quick trick — a card, or group of cards, that will probably win the first or second trick in a suit, regardless of who plays it or at what declaration.
- racetracker — a person who regularly attends horse races, especially for the purpose of betting.
- radiometric — Also called Crookes radiometer. an instrument for demonstrating the transformation of radiant energy into mechanical work, consisting of an exhausted glass vessel containing vanes that revolve about an axis when exposed to light.
- radiotracer — a radioactive isotope used as a tracer.
- rail strike — a strike by railway workers
- ray tracing — (graphics) A technique used in computer graphics to create realistic images by calculating the paths taken by rays of light entering the observer's eye at different angles. The paths are traced backward from the viewpoint, through a point (a pixel) in the image plane until they hit some object in the scene or go off to infinity. Objects are modelled as collections of abutting surfaces which may be rectangles, triangles, or more complicated shapes such as 3D splines. The optical properties of different surfaces (colour, reflectance, transmitance, refraction, texture) also affect how it will contribute to the colour and brightness of the ray. The position, colour, and brightness of light sources, including ambient lighting, is also taken into account. Ray tracing is an ideal application for parallel processing since there are many pixels, each of whose values is independent and can thus be calculated in parallel. Compare: radiosity.
- re-entrance — the act of re-entering
- re-entrench — to place in a position of strength; establish firmly or solidly: safely entrenched behind undeniable facts.
- reattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- reconnoitre — To reconnoitre an area means to obtain information about its geographical features or about the size and position of an army there.
- reconstruct — to construct again; rebuild; make over.
- registrable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- registrated — to select and combine pipe organ stops.
- reintroduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- remonstrant — remonstrating; expostulatory.
- remonstrate — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- rent strike — a temporary, organized refusal by tenants, as of an apartment building, to pay their rent, as in protest over inadequate services.
- repatriable — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- repatriator — a person who repatriates
- repatronize — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- rest centre — a place where people can rest
- restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.