11-letter words containing tr
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- bogtrotting — the act of roaming over boggy areas, or living in boggy areas
- boojum tree — a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
- bottle tree — any of several Australian sterculiaceous trees of the genus Sterculia (or Brachychiton) that have a bottle-shaped swollen trunk
- bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
- brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
- brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
- brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
- brook trout — a North American freshwater trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, introduced in Europe and valued as a food and game fish
- brown trout — a common brownish variety of the trout Salmo trutta that occurs in the rivers of N Europe and has been successfully introduced in North America
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- bullet tree — any of various tropical American trees, as Manilkara bidentata, of the sapodilla family, that yield the gum balata.
- butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
- butter tree — any of several trees, as the shea, whose fatty seeds yield a butterlike substance
- button tree — any of a genus (Conocarpus) of dicotyledonous West Indian trees with buttonlike fruit
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cacogastric — relating to an upset stomach
- cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
- cafe filtre — a strong black filtered coffee
- call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
- carry trade — a speculative transaction in which a trader buys the currency of a country with a high rate of interest and sells the currency of a country with a low rate of interest
- castelvetro — Lodovico [loh-duh-vee-koh;; Italian law-daw-vee-kaw] /ˌloʊ dəˈvi koʊ;; Italian ˌlɔ dɔˈvi kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1505–71, Italian philologist and literary critic.
- castrations — Plural form of castration.
- catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
- catastrophy — Alternative form of catastrophe.
- ceftriaxone — (pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic cephalosporin antibiotic.
- centilitres — Plural form of centilitre.
- centimetres — Plural form of centimetre.
- centimetric — having a length of one centimetre
- centralised — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of centralise.
- centralists — a centralizing system; centralization.
- centralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralizer — A centralizer is a device fitted with a hinged collar to keep the casing or liner in the center of the wellbore.
- centralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of centralize.
- centrarchid — (zoology) Any member of the Centrarchidae.
- centre half — a defender who plays in the middle of the defence
- centre pass — a push or hit made in any direction to start the game or to restart the game after a goal has been scored
- centre-fire — (of a cartridge) having the primer in the centre of the base
- centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
- centred dot — a heavy dot (·) used to draw attention to a particular paragraph
- centredness — the state or condition of being centred
- centrelines — Plural form of centreline.
- centrepiece — The centrepiece of something is the best or most interesting part of it.