12-letter words starting with tr
- transmitting — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- transmontane — tramontane.
- transmundane — reaching beyond or existing outside the physical or visible world.
- transnatural — beyond nature, spiritual
- transnistria — a region of E Moldova: unilaterally declared itself independent in 1990 and was the scene of fighting between government troops and separatists in 1992; to a large extent it functions as a separate republic, but without international recognition
- transoceanic — extending across or traversing the ocean: a transoceanic cable.
- transpacific — passing or extending across the Pacific.
- transparence — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
- transparency — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
- transpicuous — transparent.
- transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
- transplantee — a person who is undergoing or has undergone an organ transplant.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- transpontine — across or beyond a bridge.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transudation — the act or process of transuding.
- transumption — an act of metaphorical transference
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- transuranium — any element having an atomic number greater than 92, the atomic number of uranium. All such elements are radioactive and can be synthesized by bombarding a heavy element with a light particle or element. See also transactinide element.
- transvaalian — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- transvaginal — through or via the vagina
- transvaluate — to change the value of
- transversely — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
- transversion — a turning across, or into, something else
- transvestism — the practice, especially of men, of wearing clothing usually associated with the opposite sex for psychological gratification.
- transvestist — someone who partakes in transvestism
- transvestite — a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.
- transylvania — a region and former province in central Romania: formerly part of Hungary. 24,027 sq. mi. (62,230 sq. km).
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- trash talker — to use disparaging or boastful language.
- traumatising — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- traumatizing — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- traumatology — a branch of surgery dealing with major wounds caused by accidents or violence.
- travel agent — a person who owns, operates, or works for a travel agency.
- travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
- travel-weary — tired or exhausted as a result of travelling
- traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
- treacle tart — a tart made of pastry filled with syrup and lemon butter
- tread a path — If you tread a particular path, you take a particular course of action or do something in a particular way.
- treasury tag — a short piece of cord having metal ends one of which can be slotted inside the other: used for holding papers together or fastening them into a file
- treatability — able to be treated, especially medically: Some diseases are treatable but not curable.
- treble staff — a staff, bearing a treble clef.
- tredecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 42 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 78 zeros.
- tree creeper — a person or thing that creeps.
- tree cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
- tree diagram — Mathematics, Linguistics. a diagram in which lines branch out from a central point or stem without forming any closed loops.
- tree of life — a tree in the Garden of Eden that yielded food giving everlasting life. Gen 2:9; 3:22.
- tree sparrow — a Eurasian bird, Passer montanus, related to but smaller than the house sparrow.
- tree surgery — the repair of damaged trees, as by the removal of diseased parts, filling of cavities, and prevention of further decay, and by strengthening branches with braces.