14-letter words containing tr
- photoelectrode — an electrode that, following the absorption of light, can initialize electrochemical transformations
- photogrammetry — the process of making surveys and maps through the use of photographs, especially aerial photographs.
- phytochemistry — the branch of biochemistry dealing with plants and plant processes.
- piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
- pigging string — (in rodeo calf roping) a short length of rope used to bind a calf's legs after it is lassoed.
- pilaster strip — a pilaster mass of relatively slight projection.
- plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
- poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
- pointe-a-pitre — a seaport on central Guadeloupe, in the E West Indies.
- portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
- post-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
- postindustrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- postretirement — relating to or occurring in the period after retirement
- potentiometric — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
- potty training — teaching an infant to use the toilet
- poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- power struggle — fight to take control
- pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
- pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- primary stress — primary accent.
- private treaty — a property sale based on terms resulting from a conference between buyer and seller.
- protogeometric — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece chiefly during the 10th century b.c. and characterized by use of abstract geometrical motifs.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- pseudosymmetry — an apparent symmetry different from that appropriate to a crystal of a given mineral.
- pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- quasi contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- quasi-contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
- quickie strike — a labor strike that has not been called or sanctioned by the officials of the union.
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
- radiostrontium — strontium 90.
- radiotelemetry — the use of radio waves for transmitting information from a distant instrument to a device that indicates or records the measurements
- rail transport — the system of taking passengers or goods from one place to another by railway
- railroad track — railway line
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- re-entry point — the designated place of return of a spacecraft into the earth's atmosphere
- recalcitration — the act of being recalcitrant
- reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
- redistributive — favoring, supporting, or practicing income redistribution: the redistributive effects of public spending.