7-letter words starting with tr
- trooper — a horse-cavalry soldier.
- tropaia — a tropaeum, especially in Greece.
- trophic — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
- tropho- — indicating nourishment or nutrition
- tropics — The tropics are the parts of the world that lie between two lines of latitude, the tropic of Cancer, 23½° north of the equator, and the tropic of Capricorn, 23½° south of the equator.
- tropine — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- tropism — an orientation of an organism to an external stimulus, as light, especially by growth rather than by movement.
- tropist — someone who uses tropes
- trotsky — Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–25.
- trotted — (of a horse) to go at a gait between a walk and a run, in which the legs move in diagonal pairs, but not quite simultaneously, so that when the movement is slow one foot at least is always on the ground, and when fast all four feet are momentarily off the ground at once.
- trotter — an animal that trots, especially a horse bred and trained for harness racing.
- trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- trounce — to beat severely; thrash.
- trouped — a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- trouper — an actor, especially a member of a touring company.
- trouser — of or relating to trousers or a trouser: trouser cuffs; a trouser seam.
- trouter — someone who catches or fishes for trout
- truancy — the act or state of being truant.
- trucage — art forgery
- trucked — a shuffling jitterbug step.
- truckee — a river in E California and W Nevada, rising in Lake Tahoe and flowing E and NE for about 125 miles (201 km).
- trucker — any of various forms of vehicle for carrying goods and materials, usually consisting of a single self-propelled unit but also often composed of a trailer vehicle hauled by a tractor unit.
- truckie — a truck driver
- truckle — to submit or yield obsequiously or tamely (usually followed by to): Don't truckle to unreasonable demands.
- trudeau — Pierre Elliott [pee-air] /piˈɛər/ (Show IPA), 1919–2000, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1968–79 and 1980–84.
- trudgen — a stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used.
- trueing — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- trueman — Freddy, full name Frederick Sewards Trueman. 1931–2006, English cricketer; a fast bowler, he played for Yorkshire (1949–68) and England (1952–65); first bowler to take 300 test match wickets
- truffle — any of several subterranean, edible, ascomycetous fungi of the genus Tuber.
- trumeau — a mirror having a painted or carved panel above or below the glass in the same frame.
- trumped — a trumpet.
- trumpet — Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet. a trumpeter.
- truncal — belonging or relating to the trunk, for example of the body or of a tree
- trundle — to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll.
- trunker — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
- trunnel — a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships.
- trussed — close (def 54).
- trusser — to tie, bind, or fasten.
- trusted — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- trustee — a person, usually one of a body of persons, appointed to administer the affairs of a company, institution, etc.
- truster — trustor
- trustor — a person who creates a trust.
- truther — a person who does not believe the official account of the 9/11 attacks on the US and who seeks to uncover the ‘truth’ about the events of that day
- try out — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
- try-out — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
- try-pot — See under tryworks.
- tryouts — a trial or test to ascertain fitness for some purpose.
- trypsin — a proteolytic enzyme of the pancreatic juice, capable of converting proteins into peptone.
- tryptic — a proteolytic enzyme of the pancreatic juice, capable of converting proteins into peptone.
- trysail — a triangular or quadrilateral sail having its luff hooped or otherwise bent to a mast, used for lying to or keeping a vessel headed into the wind; spencer.