11-letter words containing tr
- shastracara — an action in accordance with the principles of the shastras.
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- short metre — a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, the third of which has eight syllables, while the rest have six
- side street — a street leading away from a main street; an unimportant street or one carrying but little traffic.
- sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- sinistrorse — (from a point of view at the center of the spiral) rising spirally in a counterclockwise manner, as a stem (opposed to dextrorse).
- sir patrick — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- slave trade — the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
- sociometric — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
- sole trader — feme-sole trader.
- sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
- sorrel tree — a North American tree, Oxydendrum arboreum, of the heath family, having leaves with an acid flavor and drooping clusters of white flowers.
- sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- sponge tree — huisache.
- spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
- stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stake truck — a truck or trailer with a stake body, as for hauling farm animals or feed bags.
- star stream — one of two main streams of stars that, because of the rotation of the Milky Way, appear to move in opposite directions, one towards Orion, the other towards Ara
- star-struck — captivated by famous people or by fame itself.
- steam train — a locomotive powered by steam
- stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
- stereometry — the measurement of volumes.
- sternotribe — (of a flower) having contact with the sternum of an insect
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.
- stop street — a street at the intersections of which all traffic must stop before continuing.
- storm track — the path followed by the center of a cyclonic storm.
- straichtest — straightest
- straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straightest — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straightish — almost but not quite straight
- straightway — straightaway.
- strain gage — A strain gage is a sensor for measuring the amount of strain on a solid surface.
- strait-lace — to bind, confine, or restrain with or as if with laces.
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- strand line — a shoreline, especially one from which the sea or a lake has receded.
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- strangeness — the quality or condition of being strange.