10-letter words containing tri
- perstringe — to allude to or imply
- petri dish — a shallow, circular, glass or plastic dish with a loose-fitting cover over the top and sides, used for culturing bacteria and other microorganisms.
- petrifying — stunning or dazing with horror, fear, etc
- petrissage — a massage technique that uses firm pressure and works on specific muscles
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- piano trio — an instrumental ensemble consisting of a piano, a violin, and a cello
- pin-stripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pinstriped — (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
- podiatrist — a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders.
- poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
- power trio — a format in rock music which emphasizes instrumental performance by limiting the sound to bass, drums, and guitar (with no rhythm guitar or keyboards and less emphasis on vocals if any)
- power trip — an act or instance of exerting one's power, authority, or influence: a new supervisor on a power trip.
- pro patria — for one's country.
- quadratrix — a curve by which a curved figure, such as a circle, may be squared
- quercitrin — A glycoside formed from the flavonoid quercetin and the deoxy sugar rhamnose, a constituent of quercitron dye.
- rabbitries — Plural form of rabbitry.
- redistrict — to divide anew into districts, as for administrative or electoral purposes.
- repatriate — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- restricted — confined; limited.
- restrictor — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- retributor — a person who retributes
- retrieving — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
- round trip — a trip to a given place and back again: Fares for round trips often have a discount.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- rupestrine — living or growing on or among rocks.
- sea trials — a series of trial runs to test the performance of a new ship.
- semestrial — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- separatrix — something that divides or separates, as the line between light and dark areas on a partially illuminated surface.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- show trial — (especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.
- sinoatrial — relating to specific tissue in the wall of the right atrium of the heart that acts as a pacemaker
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- strickland — William, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.
- strictness — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- stridulous — Also, stridulant. making or having a harsh or grating sound.
- strifeless — without strife
- strigiform — of, pertaining, or belonging to the order Strigiformes, comprising the owls.
- strigilate — an instrument with a curved blade, used especially by the ancient Greeks and Romans for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium.
- strike off — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike oil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- strike out — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- strikeover — an act or instance of typing over a character, as one typed in error, without erasing it.
- strikingly — attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.
- strindberg — Johan August [yoo-hahn ou-goo st] /ˈyu hɑn ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
- string bag — an openwork bag made of string, especially one with handles.
- string out — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- string tie — a short, very narrow, and unflared necktie, usually tied in a bow.