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14-letter words containing tr

  • obstructionist — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • oceanic trench — a long narrow steep-sided depression in the earth's oceanic crust, usually lying above a subduction zone
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • oestrous cycle — a hormonally controlled cycle of activity of the reproductive organs in many female mammals. The follicular stage (growth of the Graafian follicles, thickening of the lining of the uterus, secretion of oestrogen, and ovulation, is succeeded by the luteal phase (formation of the corpus luteum and secretion of progesterone), followed by regression and a return to the first stage
  • oil of vitriol — sulfuric acid.
  • omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
  • on easy street — well-to-do; in easy circumstances
  • on the streets — earning a living as a prostitute
  • one-trick pony — a person or thing considered as being limited to only one single talent, capability, quality, etc
  • one-way street — If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it.
  • open deathtrap — (abuse)   An abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz Operation's Open DeskTop. The funniest part is that this was coined by SCO's own developers. Compare AIDX, Macintrash Nominal Semidestructor, ScumOS, sun-stools, HP-SUX.
  • ophthalmometry — the measurement and determination of the eye's defects and powers of refraction
  • optoelectronic — the branch of electronics dealing with devices that generate, transform, transmit, or sense optical, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation, as cathode-ray tubes, electroluminescent and liquid crystal displays, lasers, and solar cells.
  • oral tradition — a community's cultural and historical traditions passed down by word of mouth or example from one generation to another without written instruction.
  • orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
  • osteodystrophy — (medicine) Any abnormal or defective development of a bone.
  • out of control — wild, unrestrained
  • outrageousness — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
  • over-patriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
  • overcentralize — to centralize excessively
  • overcontrolled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • overextraction — excessive extraction
  • overland trail — any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.
  • overstructured — excessively structured or organized.
  • paint stripper — Paint stripper is a liquid which you use in order to remove old paint from things such as doors or pieces of furniture.
  • panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • parametrically — in terms of a parameter
  • partridge wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • partridge-wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • passive-matrix — of or relating to a relatively low-resolution liquid-crystal display (LCD) with low contrast, a type of flat-panel display.
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
  • patrialisation — the process of patrialising
  • patrialization — the process of patrializing
  • patriarchalism — a philosophy, form, or system of patriarchal government.
  • patrick, saint — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
  • pedestrianized — A pedestrianized area has been made into an area that is intended for pedestrians, not vehicles.
  • penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
  • penetrableness — the state of being penetrable; the capacity to be penetrated
  • peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • petrochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with petroleum or its products.
  • petrol station — A petrol station is a garage by the side of the road where petrol is sold and put into vehicles.
  • petrophysicist — a person who studies, or is an expert in, petrophysics
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • photoautotroph — any organism that derives its energy for food synthesis from light and is capable of using carbon dioxide as its principal source of carbon.
  • photochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
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