9-letter words containing tri
- outstrips — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstrip.
- outstrive — to strive harder than
- overtrick — a trick won by declarer in excess of the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- partridge — any of several Old World gallinaceous game birds of the subfamily Perdicinae, especially Perdix perdix.
- patriarch — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- patriated — to transfer (legislation) to the authority of an autonomous country from its previous mother country.
- patrician — a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat.
- patricide — the act of killing one's own father.
- patriliny — the tracing of descent exclusively through the male members of a family.
- patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- patriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
- patristic — of or relating to the fathers of the Christian church or their writings.
- pediatric — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
- petri net — (parallel, simulation) A directed, bipartite graph in which nodes are either "places" (represented by circles) or "transitions" (represented by rectangles), invented by Carl Adam Petri. A Petri net is marked by placing "tokens" on places. When all the places with arcs to a transition (its input places) have a token, the transition "fires", removing a token from each input place and adding a token to each place pointed to by the transition (its output places). Petri nets are used to model concurrent systems, particularly network protocols. Variants on the basic idea include the coloured Petri Net, Time Petri Net, Timed Petri Net, Stochastic Petri Net, and Predicate Transition Net.
- petrichor — a distinctive scent, usually described as earthy, pleasant, or sweet, produced by rainfall on very dry ground.
- petrified — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- pinstripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- piscatrix — a female angler; a fisherwoman
- pituitrin — an aqueous extract of the pituitary glands of cattle which contains the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin
- postrider — (formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- prestrike — of the period before a strike
- prometric — in favour of the metric system
- putridity — in a state of foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- quantrill — William Clarke, 1837–65, Confederate guerrilla leader.
- questrist — one who quests
- re-string — to thread onto a new string
- rectrices — one of the tail feathers of a bird controlling direction during flight.
- restringe — to restrict, contract, or confine
- retribute — to give back (a payment, reward, punishment, etc) or to give in return for something
- retrieval — the act of retrieving.
- retrieved — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- retriever — a person or thing that retrieves.
- road trip — journey in a car, bus, etc.
- side trim — a decorative feature on the side of a car
- side trip — a brief excursion off the main route of an itinerary, as to visit a particular person or place.
- striation — striated condition or appearance.
- striature — the way something is striated
- strictest — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- striction — the act of constricting.
- strictish — fairly strict
- stricture — a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism: The reviewer made several strictures upon the author's style.
- stridency — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- strifeful — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- strike up — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.