5-letter words containing tr
- trees — a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- treet — E.C. Haines, 1964. An experimental variant of LISP1.5, implemented on the STRETCH computer. Basic structure was a trinary tree.
- trema — mark placed over vowel to indicate it is to be pronounced separately
- trend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- trent — Italian Trento. Ancient Tridentum. a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- tress — Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- trets — (formerly) an allowance for waste, after deduction for tare.
- trews — close-fitting tartan trousers, worn especially by certain Scottish regiments.
- treyf — Judaism. tref.
- triac — a type of thyristor designed for electronic control of the current supplied to a circuit, used especially in dimmers for lighting systems.
- triad — a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
- trias — the Triassic period or rock system
- tribe — any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.
- trice — a very short time; an instant: in a trice.
- trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- tried — simple past tense and past participle of try.
- trier — a city in W Germany, on the Moselle River: extensive Roman ruins; cathedral.
- tries — plural of try.
- triff — very good indeed; terrific
- triga — a two-wheeled chariot drawn by a team of three horses.
- trigo — wheat; field of wheat.
- trike — tricycle.
- trill — to cause to flow in a thin stream.
- trime — a former silver three-cent coin of the U.S., issued from 1851 to 1873.
- trine — threefold; triple.
- trini — a native or inhabitant of Trinidad; Trinidadian
- triol — a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- tripe — the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- trite — lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
- troad — The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- troas — The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- troat — (of a rutting buck) to call or bellow
- troia — Troy Game, The.
- trois — the number 3.
- troke — truck2 (defs 4–7).
- troll — to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
- tromp — to tramp or trample.
- trona — a monoclinic mineral, grayish or yellowish hydrous sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅NaHCO 3 ⋅2H 2 , occurring in dried or partly evaporated lake basins.
- tronc — a pool into which waiters, waitresses, hotel workers, etc, pay their tips and into which some managements pay service charges for later distribution to staff by a tronc master, according to agreed percentages
- trone — a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- tronk — a jail
- troop — an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- trope — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- troth — faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty: by my troth.
- trots — trotting races
- trout — any of several game fishes of the genus Salmo, related to the salmon. Compare brown trout, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout.
- trove — a collection of objects.
- troys — Latin Ilium. Greek Ilion. an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: the seventh of nine settlements on the site is commonly identified as the Troy of the Iliad.
- truce — a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.