12-letter words starting with tr
- 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.
- transilience — leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.
- transit camp — a camp in which refugees, soldiers, etc, live temporarily before moving to another destination
- transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- transit stop — a stop made by a vehicle such as an aircraft, train or bus on the way to its final destination
- transitional — movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- transitivity — verb: requiring a direct object
- translatable — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- transleithan — beyond the river Leitha, which once formed part of the boundary between Austria and Hungary
- translucence — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- translucency — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- translucidus — (of a cloud) sufficiently transparent as not to obscure the sun, moon, or higher clouds.
- translumenal — (of a surgical procedure) performed within a blood vessel, duct, or cavity
- transmigrant — a person or thing that transmigrates.
- transmigrate — to move or pass from one place to another.
- transmission — the act or process of transmitting.
- transmissive — the act or process of transmitting.