9-letter words containing tr
- control-s — (character) (Or XOFF, DC3, Device Control 3) The character with ASCII code 19, used in software handshaking to temporarily suspend output until a control-Q is received.
- controled — Misspelling of controlled.
- controlee — (informal, UK) A person who is the subject of a control order.
- contronym — A word with two opposite meanings, e.g., sanction (which can mean both ‘a penalty for disobeying a law’ and ‘official permission or approval for an action’).
- copatriot — a fellow patriot
- cork tree — the cork oak, Quercus suber, of the beech family.
- cosmotron — a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)
- cotrustee — a fellow trustee
- countries — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- countrify — to make countrified.
- countryfy — Alternative spelling of countrify.
- courtroom — A courtroom is a room in which a legal court meets.
- crab tree — a tree bearing crab apples.
- creatress — A female creator.
- crosstree — either of a pair of wooden or metal braces on the head of a mast to support the topmast, etc
- cryometry — The measurement of very low temperatures.
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- curatress — A female curator.
- cyclotron — a type of particle accelerator in which the particles spiral inside two D-shaped hollow metal electrodes placed facing each other under the effect of a strong vertical magnetic field, gaining energy by a high-frequency voltage applied between these electrodes
- cytometry — the counting of blood cells using a cytometer
- day-trade — to buy and sell a listed security or commodity on the same day, usually on margin, for a quick profit.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- de-stress — If you de-stress or if something de-stresses you, you do something that helps you to relax.
- dead tree — (publication, jargon) Paper. Use of this term emphasises the waste of natural resources and limited features available from the printed form of a document compared with an electronic rendition. E.g. "I read the dead tree edition of the Guardian on the train". See also tree-killer.
- dead-tree — printed on paper
- deathtrap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a deathtrap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decametre — ten metres
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- decentred — to put out of center.
- decilitre — one tenth of a litre
- decimetre — one tenth of a metre
- decontrol — When governments decontrol an activity, they remove controls from it so that companies or organizations have more freedom.
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- denitrate — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a compound loses a nitro or nitrate group, nitrogen dioxide, or nitric acid
- denitrify — to undergo or cause to undergo loss or removal of nitrogen compounds or nitrogen
- dentistry — Dentistry is the work done by a dentist.
- destriers — Plural form of destrier.
- destroyed — to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
- destroyer — A destroyer is a small, heavily armed warship.
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- destructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destruct.
- detracted — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detracter — Alternative form of detractor.
- detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
- detrained — Simple past tense and past participle of detrain.
- detraquee — female insane person
- detreated — Simple past tense and past participle of detreat.
- detriment — If something happens to the detriment of something or to a person's detriment, it causes harm or damage to them.
- detrition — the act of rubbing or wearing away by friction