11-letter words starting with tr
- tropicalize — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropomyosin — a protein in muscle tissue that works with troponin to control the process by which actin and myosin interact to produce muscle contraction
- troposphere — the lowest layer of the atmosphere, 6 miles (10 km) high in some areas and as much as 12 miles (20 km) high in others, within which there is a steady drop in temperature with increasing altitude and within which nearly all cloud formations occur and weather conditions manifest themselves.
- trothplight — engagement to be married; betrothal.
- troubadours — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
- troubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- troubleshot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- trough roof — M roof.
- trouser leg — the leg of a pair of trousers
- trout-perch — any of a family (Percopsidae) of North American freshwater bony fishes having spiny and fleshy fins, esp., a species (Percopsis omiscomaycus) of Canada and the E U.S.
- troy weight — a system of weights in use for precious metals and gems (formerly also for bread, grain, etc.): 24 grains = 1 pennyweight (1.555 grams); 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (31.103 grams); 12 ounces = 1 pound (0.373 kilogram). The grain, ounce, and pound are the same as in apothecaries' weight, the grain alone being the same as in avoirdupois weight. The troy pound is no longer a standard weight in Great Britain.
- truckdriver — a person who drives a truck.
- truckle bed — a low bed moving on casters, usually pushed under another bed when not in use.
- truckmaster — an officer in charge of trade with Native Americans, esp among the early settlers
- truculently — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- true course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the geographical meridian.
- true fresco — fresco (def 1).
- true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
- truehearted — faithful; loyal.
- trumpet leg — a turned leg that flares upward and outward from a narrow lower end.
- trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
- trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
- truncheoned — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
- truncheoner — someone who carries a truncheon
- trundle bed — truckle bed.
- trundletail — a dog with a curly tail.
- trunk cabin — a cabin of a yacht that presents a long, low profile with a relatively unbroken line fore and aft. Compare doghouse (def 2).
- trunksleeve — a sleeve that is puffed in shape or contains a large amount of fabric
- trust hotel — a licensed hotel or a bar owned by a publicly elected committee as trustees, the profits of which go to public amenities
- trustbuster — a federal official who seeks to dissolve business trusts, especially through vigorous application of antitrust regulations.
- trusteeship — Law. the office or function of a trustee.
- trustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- truth claim — a hypothesis not yet verified by experience.
- truth quark — top quark
- truth serum — a drug, as the barbiturate thiopental, that induces in the subject a desire to talk or a state of heightened suggestibility, used in psychotherapy and in interrogation to discover repressed or consciously withheld information.
- truth table — a table that gives the truth-values of a compound sentence formed from component sentences by means of logical connectives, as AND, NOT, or OR, for every possible combination of truth-values of the component sentences.
- truth-value — the truth or falsehood of a proposition: The truth-value of “2 + 2 = 5” is falsehood.
- try out for — If you try out for a sports team or an acting role, you compete or you perform a test in an attempt to be chosen.
- trypan blue — dye used for staining cells in biological research
- trypanocide — a drug or substance that kills trypanosomes
- trypanosoma — trypanosome.
- trypanosome — any minute, flagellate protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma, parasitic in the blood or tissues of humans and other vertebrates, usually transmitted by insects, often causing serious diseases, as African sleeping sickness in humans, and many diseases in domestic animals.
- trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.