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6-letter words starting with tr

  • tricks — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • tricky — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
  • tricot — a warp-knit fabric of various natural or synthetic fibers, as wool, silk, or nylon, having fine vertical ribs on the face and horizontal ribs on the back, used especially for making garments.
  • triene — any compound containing three double bonds.
  • triens — a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
  • trifid — cleft into three parts or lobes.
  • trifle — an article or thing of very little value.
  • trigon — a triangle.
  • trijet — an airplane powered by three jet engines.
  • trilby — a hat of soft felt with an indented crown.
  • trimer — a molecule composed of three identical, simpler molecules.
  • trimix — a mixture of nitrogen, helium, and oxygen used for breathing by divers
  • trinal — threefold; triple; trine.
  • triode — a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
  • triose — a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
  • tripes — the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
  • tripey — characteristic of tripe; worthless
  • triple — threefold; consisting of three parts: a triple knot.
  • triply — to a triple number, measure, or degree.
  • tripod — a stool, table, pedestal, etc., with three legs.
  • tripos — (at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
  • trippy — suggestive of or resembling the effect produced by a hallucinogenic drug
  • triste — sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
  • trisul — the trident symbol of the Hindu God Siva
  • triton — Classical Mythology. a son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, represented as having the head and trunk of a man and the tail of a fish, and as using a conch-shell trumpet.
  • triune — three in one; constituting a trinity in unity, as the Godhead.
  • trivet — a special knife for cutting pile loops, as of velvet or carpets.
  • trivia — (in Roman religion) Hecate: so called because she was the goddess of the crossroads.
  • trixie — a female given name, form of Beatrix.
  • trocar — a sharp-pointed instrument enclosed in a cannula, used for withdrawing fluid from a cavity, as the abdominal cavity.
  • troche — a small tablet or lozenge, usually a circular one, made of medicinal substance worked into a paste with sugar and mucilage or the like, and dried.
  • troggs — loyalty; fidelity
  • trogon — any of several brilliantly colored birds of the family Trogonidae, especially of the genus Trogon, of tropical and subtropical regions of the New World.
  • troika — a Russian carriage, wagon, or sleigh drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
  • trojan — of or relating to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.
  • troked — truck2 (defs 4–7).
  • trolls — to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
  • trolly — trolley car.
  • trompe — Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
  • tromps — to tramp or trample.
  • tromso — a seaport in N Norway.
  • tromsø — a port in N Norway, on a small island between Kvaløy and the mainland: fishing and sealing centre. Pop: 61 897 (2004 est)
  • troops — armed forces; soldiers
  • tropes — 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.
  • trophi — the mandibles or other parts of an insect's mouth
  • trophy — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
  • tropic — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
  • tropin — a hormone released in the body by a certain gland and which produces a response in other glands, stimulating the release of other hormones
  • tropo- — indicating change or a turning
  • troppo — too much; excessively.
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