15-letter words containing tre
- at full stretch — If you are at full stretch, your arm is straight and extended as far as possible, usually because you are trying to reach something that is almost too far away.
- avant la lettre — before the (specified) concept, word, person, etc. existed
- ballet mistress — a woman who teaches and rehearses the dancers in a ballet company
- birthing centre — a private maternity hospital
- buried treasure — A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is. Used sarcastically, because what is found is anything *but* treasure. Buried treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed. "I just found that the scheduler sorts its queue using bubble sort! Buried treasure!"
- business centre — a place providing office facilities and services
- buttress thread — a screw thread having one flank that is vertical while the other is inclined, and a flat top and bottom: used in machine tools and designed to withstand heavy thrust in one direction
- cannonball tree — a South American tree, Couroupita guianensis, bearing round, woody-husked fruit whose shells are used to make containers and utensils.
- chile saltpetre — a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate: a soluble white or colourless mineral occurring in arid regions, esp in Chile and Peru
- concertmistress — the first violinist in an orchestra
- coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
- danse du ventre — belly dance
- dead-end street — a street blocked at one end
- distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
- distress signal — a signal used, or designed to be used, by persons in peril, for the purpose of summoning aid, indicating their position, etc., as a radio code sign, aerial flare, flag hoist, or the like. Compare distress call (def 1).
- distressed area — a region so severely damaged by a flood, hurricane, or other natural catastrophe that its inhabitants need food, clothing, shelter, and economic aid from national charities or the federal government.
- distressfulness — The state or quality of being distressful; the state of having or causing anxiety or strain.
- duty to retreat — a legal principle that requires a person as a first response to back away or flee from a threatening situation rather than attempt self-defense by deadly force: Duty to retreat has always been a debatable doctrine.
- entre-deux-mers — any wine produced in the area of the Gironde between the rivers Dordogne and Garonne in S France
- entrepreneurial — Characterized by the taking of financial risks in the hope of profit; enterprising.
- entrepreneurism — Synonym of entrepreneurialism.
- expression tree — (mathematics, grammar) The syntax tree of an expression.
- extreme ironing — an activity that involves ironing items of laundry while engaged in a sport such as snowboarding or rock climbing
- extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
- flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
- flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
- goldenrain tree — a small, deciduous Asian tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) of the soapberry family having small yellow flowers and papery fruit pods
- heritage centre — a museum that houses exhibits describing the culture and history of a particular place and its inhabitants
- housemistresses — Plural form of housemistress.
- internal stress — (in metal or glass pieces, or the like) a stress existing within the material as a result of thermal changes, having been worked, or irregularity of molecular structure.
- ladies'-tresses — any of a genus (Spiranthes) of wild orchids with small, white flowers arranged spirally on spikes
- laser treatment — any of various medical and surgical techniques using lasers, such as the removal of small growths
- learner-centred — focussed on the learner rather than the teacher
- lecture theatre — auditorium
- maidenhair tree — ginkgo.
- maidenhair-tree — ginkgo.
- mignonette tree — henna (sense 1)
- newark-on-trent — a town in N central England, in Nottinghamshire. Pop: 35 454 (2001)
- nigger minstrel — a performer who puts on blackface (exaggerated negro-like make-up) usually to perform songs associated with the American South
- non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- ostreiculturist — a person who breeds oysters
- outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- pine tree state — Maine (used as a nickname).
- property centre — a service for buying and selling property, including conveyancing, provided by a group of local solicitors
- quartermistress — the female equivalent of a quartermaster
- residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
- resource centre — a place which provides information, equipment and support
- rice-paper tree — an Asian shrub or small tree, Tetrapanax papyriferus, of the ginseng family, the pith of which is used in making rice paper.
- right-of-centre — You can describe a person or political party as right-of-centre if they have political views which are closer to capitalism and conservatism than to socialism but which are not very extreme.
- sentence stress — the stress pattern or patterns associated with words as arranged in sentences in a particular language.
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