12-letter words starting with t
- tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
- tragic irony — dramatic irony in tragic drama.
- tragicalness — the quality or state of being tragic
- tragicomical — a dramatic or other literary composition combining elements of both tragedy and comedy.
- trailblazing — to blaze a trail through (a forest, wilderness, or the like) for others to follow.
- trailer camp — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
- trailer park — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
- trailer tent — a large tent that packs into a trailer, in which the trailer's base becomes the sleeping or living area when the tent is erected
- trailing arm — A trailing arm is part of the suspension for the axle of a vehicle which moves up and down as the vehicle travels over a bumpy surface.
- trainability — capable of being trained.
- trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
- training aid — a mechanical contrivance used to supplement other forms and methods of training: Motion pictures and slides were used as training aids.
- trainspotter — A trainspotter is someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations and recording the numbers of the trains that they see.
- tralaticious — transferred or passed down
- tramping hut — a hut in the bush for the use of trampers
- tranquilizer — a person or thing that tranquilizes.
- tranquillity — quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity.
- tranquillize — To tranquillize a person or an animal means to make them become calm, sleepy, or unconscious by means of a drug.
- trans female — a person who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
- trans person — a person who is transgender or transsexual.
- trans-jordan — an area east of the Jordan River, in SW Asia: a British mandate (1921–23); an emirate (1923–49); now the major part of the kingdom of Jordan.
- trans-sexual — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
- transactions — the published records of the proceedings of a society, conference, etc
- transaminase — any of a class of enzymes, occurring in most plant and animal tissue, that cause transamination.
- transannular — of or relating to tautomerism in cyclic compounds that is characterized by the migration of an atom or group from one position in the ring to another.
- transcendent — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
- transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transcension — transcendence.
- transcranial — across or through the skull
- transcurrent — running or extending across or transversely.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- transductant — the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another by means of a virus.
- transduction — the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another by means of a virus.
- transelement — to change the elements of; transmute.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- transfer fee — a sum of money paid by one football club to another for a transferred player
- transfer rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- transfer tax — a transaction fee imposed on the transfer of title to property
- transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transference — the act or process of transferring.
- transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
- transferring — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformism — the doctrine of gradual transformation of one species into another by descent with modification through many generations.
- transformist — an adherent of transformism.
- transgenesis — the transfer of human genes into animals or cultured cells, especially to produce molecules with therapeutic value.
- transgressed — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
- transgressor — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.