11-letter words containing tre
- millilitres — Plural form of millilitre.
- millimetres — Plural form of millimetre.
- millstreams — Plural form of millstream.
- mistreading — a wrongdoing or misdemeanour
- mistreating — Present participle of mistreat.
- mitre block — a block of wood with slots for cutting mitre joints with a saw
- mitre joint — a corner joint formed between two pieces of material, esp wood, by cutting bevels of equal angles at the ends of each piece
- multicentre — Of or pertaining to multiple centres.
- non-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- orchid tree — a tree, Bauhinia variegata, of the legume family, native to southeastern Asia, having lavender or purple flowers clustered in the leaf axils, cultivated in warm regions.
- ordeal tree — any of several trees having poisonous seeds, leaves, etc., used in primitive trials by ordeal.
- orthocentre — Point at which the perpendiculars from the angles of a triangle intersect.
- ostreaceous — oyster-like
- ostreophage — someone who loves or eats oysters
- ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- overstretch — to stretch excessively.
- pagoda tree — a Chinese leguminous tree, Sophora japonica, with ornamental white flowers and dark green foliage
- parent tree — a tree from which a small section or scion is cut and grafted onto a rootstock to propagate a new tree
- pepper tree — any of several chiefly South American, evergreen trees belonging to the genus Schinus, of the cashew family, cultivated in subtropical regions as an ornamental.
- pipistrelle — any of numerous insectivorous bats of the genus Pipistrellus, especially P. pipistrellus of Europe and Asia.
- planer tree — a small tree, Planera aquatica, of the elm family, growing in moist ground in the southern U.S., bearing a small, ovoid, nutlike fruit and yielding a compact light-brown wood.
- play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
- precentress — a female precentor
- preceptress — a woman who is an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- prestressed — (of steel cables, wires, etc, of a precast concrete part) that has been prestressed
- protectress — a woman who guards or defends someone or something; protector.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- quaintrelle — (obscure) A woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.
- quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- re-entrench — to place in a position of strength; establish firmly or solidly: safely entrenched behind undeniable facts.
- reconnoitre — To reconnoitre an area means to obtain information about its geographical features or about the size and position of an army there.
- rest centre — a place where people can rest
- retreatists — the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.
- rubber tree — any tree that yields latex from which rubber is produced, especially Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, native to South America, the chief commercial source of rubber.
- saddle-tree — the frame of a saddle.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- sceptreless — lacking a sceptre, powerless, lacking authority
- seamstressy — needlework
- self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
- 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.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
- soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
- sorrel tree — a North American tree, Oxydendrum arboreum, of the heath family, having leaves with an acid flavor and drooping clusters of white flowers.
- sponge tree — huisache.
- 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