9-letter words containing tr
- centrists — Plural form of centrist.
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- cetrimide — a quaternary ammonium compound used as a detergent and, having powerful antiseptic properties, for sterilizing surgical instruments, cleaning wounds, etc
- chantress — a female chanter or singer
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chartreux — a breed of sturdy cat with short dense woolly fur
- chatrooms — Plural form of chatroom.
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- chesstree — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a wooden fastening with one or more sheaves, attached to the topside of a sailing vessel, through which the windward tack of a course was rove.
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- chymistry — chemistry.
- cicatrice — Physiology. new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.
- cicatrise — (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
- cicatrize — (of a wound or defect in tissue) to close or be closed by scar formation; heal
- circuitry — Circuitry is a system of electric circuits.
- cistronic — cistron-related
- claustral — of or related to a cloister
- claustrum — a thin layer of grey matter in the brain
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- coat tree — clothes tree.
- coatracks — Plural form of coatrack.
- cointreau — a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring
- colostral — a yellowish liquid, especially rich in immune factors, secreted by the mammary gland of female mammals a few days before and after the birth of their young.
- colostric — of or relating to the colostrum
- colostrum — the thin milky secretion from the nipples that precedes and follows true lactation. It consists largely of serum and white blood cells
- come true — If a dream, wish, or prediction comes true, it actually happens.
- computron — (jargon) /kom'pyoo-tron"/ 1. A notional unit of computing power combining execution speed and storage capacity. E.g. "That machine can't run GNU Emacs, it doesn't have enough computrons!" 2. A mythical subatomic particle that carries computation or information, in much the same way that an electron carries electric charge (see also bogon).
- con trick — swindle
- concentre — to converge or cause to converge on a common centre; concentrate
- constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- constrict — If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
- construal — an act of construing
- construct — to draw (a line, angle, or figure) so that certain requirements are satisfied
- construed — to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
- construes — to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
- contracts — Plural form of contract.
- contrails — Plural form of contrail.
- contralto — A contralto is a woman with a low singing voice.
- contranym — A word that has two opposing meanings, such as 'cleave' (“come together” or “split apart”).
- contrasts — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- contrasty — (of a photograph or subject) having sharp gradations in tone, esp between light and dark areas
- contrived — If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
- contriver — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- contrives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive.
- control-c — (character) (Or ETX, End of Text) The ASCII character with code 3. Control-C is the interrupt character used in the command-line interface of many operating systems, including Unix and MS-DOS to force a running program to stop and return control to the user.
- control-g — bell
- control-o — (character) ASCII character 15 (SI). The character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running. The name "SI" comes from its use on some terminals to "shift in" an alternative character set. "SO" is Control-N. Compare control-S.
- control-q — (character) (Or XON, DC1, Device Control 1) The character with ASCII code 17, used in software handshaking to resume output after a previous control-S.