8-letter words containing tri
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- patricia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “patrician.”.
- petrillo — James Caesar, 1892–1984, U.S. labor leader: president of the American Federation of Musicians 1940–58.
- poitrine — a woman's bosom
- postriot — of or relating to the period after a riot
- pretrial — a proceeding held by a judge, arbitrator, etc., before a trial to simplify the issues of law and fact and stipulate certain matters between the parties, in order to expedite justice and curtail costs at the trial.
- restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- restrike — a coin freshly minted from dies of an earlier issue.
- restring — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- restrive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- retrieve — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- sentries — a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
- striated — striated.
- striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter in the brain which controls movement and balance
- stricken — a past participle of strike.
- strickle — a straightedge used for sweeping off heaped-up grain to the level of the rim of a measure.
- stricter — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- strictly — in a strict manner; rigorously; stringently: strictly enforced.
- strident — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- striding — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- strigine — of or like an owl
- strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
- strijdom — Johannes Gerhardus (joˈhanəs ɡeːrˈhɑːdəs). 1893–1958, South African statesman; prime minister (1954–58)
- striking — Military. describing a fighter-bomber aircraft designed to carry large payloads at high speeds and low altitudes and also to engage in air-to-air combat.
- strimmer — A Strimmer is an electric tool used for cutting long grass or grass at the edge of a lawn. It cuts the grass with a piece of plastic cord which goes round very fast.
- stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
- stringer — a person or thing that strings.
- striping — a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing: the stripes of a zebra.
- stripped — having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
- stripper — a person who strips.
- strivers — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- striving — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- subtribe — tribe within a larger tribe
- subtrist — slightly sad; not completely sad
- tantrika — Also called Tantrist [tuhn-trist, tan-] /ˈtʌn trɪst, ˈtæn-/ (Show IPA). an adherent of Tantra.
- tantrism — (italics) Hinduism. any of several books of esoteric doctrine regarding rituals, disciplines, meditation, etc., composed in the form of dialogues between Shiva and his Shakti; Agama.
- testrill — sixpence
- theatric — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
- tractrix — a curve whose tangents are all of equal length; the involute of a catenary.
- tri-band — of or relating to mobile telephones that can operate on three GSM frequency bands
- tri-city — of or relating to a metropolitan area consisting of three separate but interdependent cities: an instance of tri-city cooperation.
- triadist — someone who composes triads
- trialism — the belief that man consists of body, soul, and spirit
- triality — the state of being threefold
- triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
- triapsal — (of a church) having three apses
- triarchy — government by three persons.
- triassic — noting or pertaining to a period of the Mesozoic Era, occurring from 230 to 190 million years ago and characterized by the advent of dinosaurs and coniferous forests.