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11-letter words containing tri

  • strife-torn — divided by violent conflict or dissent
  • strike back — retaliate
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
  • strike fire — to make a spark, as with tinder
  • strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
  • strike home — to deliver an effective blow
  • strike note — the note produced by a bell when struck, defining its musical pitch
  • strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
  • strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
  • string bass — double bass.
  • string bean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
  • string line — string (def 17b).
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
  • stringently — rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
  • stringiness — resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces: stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.
  • stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
  • strip joint — a nightclub or other establishment featuring striptease performances.
  • strip light — A strip light is an electric light in the form of a long tube.
  • strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
  • strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
  • stripe rust — a disease of wheat, barley, rye, and other grasses, characterized by elongated rows of yellow spores on the affected parts, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia glumarum.
  • stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
  • strippagram — a greetings message delivered by a stripper who does a striptease on delivery
  • stripteaser — stripper (def 3).
  • subdistrict — a division of a district.
  • superstrike — an exceptionally large strike
  • superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • sylvestrian — living in the woods; sylvan
  • symmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • take strike — (of a batsman) to prepare to play a ball delivered by the bowler
  • tautometric — having the same metre or arrangement of syllables
  • taximetrics — numerical taxonomy.
  • telocentric — of or relating to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is positioned at its end, creating one chromosome arm. Compare acentric (def 2), acrocentric, metacentric (def 2).
  • terrestrial — pertaining to, consisting of, or representing the earth as distinct from other planets.
  • the strings — violins, violas, cellos, and double basses collectively
  • the trinity — the union of the three divine persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) in one Godhead
  • the trizone — the area of Germany from 1945-49, later to become West Germany, comprising three zones occupied by Britain, USA and France respectively
  • theatricals — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
  • theatricism — theatricalism.
  • theatricize — to make something theatrical or artificial
  • theocentric — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theriatrics — the study and practice of veterinary medicine.
  • titrimetric — using or obtained by titration.
  • topocentric — as seen from, with reference to, or coordinating to a point on the surface of the earth
  • triadically — characteristic of a triad
  • trial court — the court in which a controversy is first adjudicated (distinguished from appellate division).
  • trial horse — an opponent who performs against a superior foe in a workout or exhibition.
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