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11-letter words starting with tro

  • trobar clus — a complex and obscure style of writing adopted by some 12th-century Provençal poets.
  • trochophore — a ciliate, free-swimming larva common to several groups of invertebrates, as many mollusks and rotifers.
  • troglobiont — any creature having a cave-dwelling mode of life.
  • troglodytic — a prehistoric cave dweller.
  • trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
  • trolley bus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
  • trolley car — a streetcar propelled electrically by current taken by means of a trolley from a conducting wire strung overhead or running beneath a slot between the tracks.
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • trombiculid — (of a mite) belonging to the family Trombiculidae
  • tromometric — of, relating to, or using a tromometer
  • troop train — a train used for transporting military personnel
  • trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
  • trophoblast — the layer of extraembryonic ectoderm that chiefly nourishes the embryo or develops into fetal membranes with nutritive functions.
  • trophoplasm — the cytoplasm that is involved in the nutritive processes of a cell
  • trophozoite — a protozoan in the metabolically active growth stage.
  • trophy room — a room in which a person or group keeps and displays trophies, as for bowling or golf.
  • trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
  • tropic bird — any of several web-footed seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, chiefly of tropical seas, having white plumage with black markings and a pair of greatly elongated central tail feathers.
  • tropicality — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
  • 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.

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