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11-letter words containing tro

  • brown trout — a common brownish variety of the trout Salmo trutta that occurs in the rivers of N Europe and has been successfully introduced in North America
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • castelvetro — Lodovico [loh-duh-vee-koh;; Italian law-daw-vee-kaw] /ˌloʊ dəˈvi koʊ;; Italian ˌlɔ dɔˈvi kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1505–71, Italian philologist and literary critic.
  • catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  • catastrophy — Alternative form of catastrophe.
  • centrobaric — of or concerned with a centre of gravity
  • centromeres — Plural form of centromere.
  • centromeric — Pertaining to, or characteristic of centromeres.
  • centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
  • centrosomes — Plural form of centrosome.
  • centrosomic — Relating to the centrosome.
  • chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
  • citron wood — the wood of the citron tree
  • citronellal — a colourless slightly water-soluble liquid with a lemon-like odour, a terpene aldehyde found esp in citronella and certain eucalyptus oils: used as a flavouring and in soaps and perfumes. Formula: (CH3)2C:CH(CH2)2CH(CH3)CH2CHO
  • citronellol — an alcohol present in oils from various aromatic plant species
  • comptroller — A comptroller is someone who is in charge of the accounts of a business or a government department; used mainly in official titles.
  • control bus — (architecture)   In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
  • control key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that is used in conjunction with the standard keys in order to initiate a specific function, such as editing
  • control rod — one of a number of rods or tubes containing a neutron absorber, such as boron, that can be inserted into or retracted from the core of a nuclear reactor in order to control its rate of reaction
  • control tty — (/dev/ptyp*) The network side of a pseudo-tty.
  • controllers — Plural form of controller.
  • controlless — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • controlling — having or attempting to exert control
  • controlment — power to direct or determine
  • controverse — a controversy
  • controversy — Controversy is a lot of discussion and argument about something, often involving strong feelings of anger or disapproval.
  • coral trout — an Australian fish, Plectropomus maculatus, of the Great Barrier Reef which is an important food fish
  • cytotropism — cytotropic tendency or behavior.
  • dawn patrol — a flight, especially during the early days of military aviation, undertaken at dawn or early morning in order to reconnoiter enemy positions.
  • dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation
  • dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
  • dermotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
  • destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
  • dexiotropic — (of cleavage) spiral; twisting in a spiral fashion from left to right
  • dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
  • diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
  • do a stroke — If someone does not do a stroke of work, they are very lazy and do no work at all.
  • dogtrotting — Present participle of dogtrot.
  • downstrokes — Plural form of downstroke.
  • downtrodden — tyrannized over; oppressed: the downtrodden plebeians of ancient Rome.
  • dystrophies — Plural form of dystrophy.
  • eave trough — gutter (def 3).
  • eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
  • ectotrophic — (of a mycorrhiza) growing outside the root or between the cells.
  • electrocute — Injure or kill someone by electric shock.
  • electrocyte — A modified muscle or nerve cell that generates electricity in the electric organ of certain fishes.
  • electroform — to form (a metallic object) by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
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