11-letter words containing tr
- restrictive — tending or serving to restrict.
- restringent — (of medicines and chemicals) causing contraction of body tissues, checking blood flow, or restricting secretions of fluids
- restructure — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
- resveratrol — a compound found in red grapes, mulberries, peanuts, and certain plants, used medicinally as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
- retraceable — to trace backward; go back over: to retrace one's steps.
- retractable — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retractible — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retrainable — able to be retrained
- retransform — to transform back, again or differently
- retranslate — to translate (something that has already been translated)
- retreatists — the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- retributive — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retributory — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retrievable — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- retroaction — action that is opposed or contrary to the preceding action.
- retroactive — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
- retroengine — a small rocket on a spacecraft which is fired to alter its course or slow it down
- retrolental — located or occurring behind a lens, as of the eye.
- retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
- retrorocket — a small, auxiliary rocket engine, forming a part of a larger rocket vehicle and having its exhaust nozzle pointed toward the direction of flight, for decelerating the larger rocket, separating one stage from another, etc.
- retrosexual — a heterosexual man who spends little time and money on his personal appearance
- retroussage — the technique or action, in etching or engraving, of drawing up ink from within the incised lines of an inked plate by deftly passing a soft cloth across its surface in order to spread ink to the adjacent areas.
- return trip — the journey back from a destination
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- rion strait — Lepanto (def 3).
- rising trot — a horse's trot in which the rider rises from the saddle every second beat
- road-trials — a road test
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
- rubber tree — any tree that yields latex from which rubber is produced, especially Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, native to South America, the chief commercial source of rubber.
- rum truffle — a sweet resembling an edible fungus, of the European genus Tuber, in shape, flavoured with rum
- sabrmetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- saddle-tree — the frame of a saddle.
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- sceptreless — lacking a sceptre, powerless, lacking authority
- school trip — educational outing
- seamstressy — needlework
- seismometry — the study of the measurement of earthquakes using a seismometer
- self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
- self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- semitrailer — Also called semi. a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. Compare full trailer.
- sentry duty — the duty of serving as a sentry
- septentrion — Obsolete. the north.
- sequestrant — any substance used to bring about sequestration, often by chelation. They are used in horticulture to counteract lime in the soil
- sequestrate — Law. to sequester (property). to confiscate.
- sesostris i — 20th century bc, king of Egypt of the 12th dynasty. He conquered Nubia and brought ancient Egypt to the height of its prosperity. The funerary complex at Lisht was built during his reign