7 letter word starting with tr

by
Words Parts of Speech Meaning/Definition/Similar Words
trabeae plural of Trabea
tracing present participle & vb. noun of Trace, The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted., A regular path or track; a course.
trachea noun The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung., One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids., One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.
tracked imp. & past participle of Track
tracker noun One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game., In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
tractor noun That which draws, or is used for drawing., Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism.
trading present participle & vb. noun of Trade, Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company., Frequented by traders., Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.
traduce verb t. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one’s descendants., To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works., To increase or distribute by propagation., To draw away; to seduce., To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of., To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
traduct verb t. To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer., That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation.
traffic verb i. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade., To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain., To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration., Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade., Commodities of the market., The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
tragedy noun A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life., A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.
trailed imp. & past participle of Trail
trailer noun One who, or that which, trails., A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant.
trained imp. & past participle of Train
trainel noun A dragnet.
trainer noun One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength., A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline.
traipse verb i. To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.
traitor noun One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason., Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer., Traitorous., To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
traject verb t. To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun’s light through three or more cross prisms., A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry., The act of trajecting; trajection., A trajectory.
tramble verb t. To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.
trammel noun A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey., A net for confining a woman’s hair., A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble., Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle., An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire., An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil., A beam compass. See under Beam., To entangle, as in a net; to catch., To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
tramped imp. & past participle of Tramp
tramper noun One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp.
trample verb t. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers., Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult., To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp., To tread in contempt; — with on or upon., The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.
tramway noun Same as Tramroad., A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.
tranced imp. & past participle of Trance
tranect noun A ferry.
trannel noun A treenail.
transit noun The act of passing; passage through or over., The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country., A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit., The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope., The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun’s disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary., An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; — called also transit compass, and surveyor’s transit., To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
transom noun A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion., One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; — called also transsummer., The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages., The vane of a cross-staff., One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
tranter noun One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
trapped imp. & past participle of Trap
trapeze noun A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1., A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; — used by gymnasts.
trapper noun One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs., A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
trashed imp. & past participle of Trash
traunce noun & verb See Trance.
travail noun Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion., Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail., To labor with pain; to toil., To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor., To harass; to tire.
travers adjective Across; athwart.
trawler noun One who, or that which, trawls., A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.
trayful noun As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.
treacle noun A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1., A sovereign remedy; a cure., Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses., A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like.
treacly adjective Like, or composed of, treacle.
trodden past participle of Tread, p. p. of Tread.
treader noun One who treads.
treadle noun The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot., The chalaza of a bird’s egg; the tread.
treague noun A truce.
treason noun The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery., Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.
treated imp. & past participle of Treat
treater noun One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
trebled imp. & past participle of Treble
treblet noun Same as Triblet.
treddle noun See Treadle., A prostitute; a strumpet., The dung of sheep or hares.
treeing present participle & vb. noun of Tree
treeful noun The quantity or number which fills a tree.
trefoil noun Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; — less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic., An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils., A charge representing the clover leaf.
trehala noun An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.
trellis noun A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.
tremble verb i. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; — said of a person or an animal., To totter; to shake; — said of a thing., To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles., An involuntary shaking or quivering.
tremolo noun The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect., A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; — called also tremolant, and tremulant.
trenail noun Same as Treenail.
trended imp. & past participle of Trend
trender noun One whose business is to free wool from its filth.
trendle verb i. A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.
trental noun An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial., Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
trepang noun Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; — called also beche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug.
tressed adjective Having tresses., Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled.
tressel noun A trestle.
trestle noun A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like., The frame of a table.
triable adjective Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test., Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another.
triacid adjective Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; — said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.
triacle noun See Treacle.
triadic adjective Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic.
triatic adjective A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay.
tribble noun A frame on which paper is dried.
triblet noun Alt. of Tribolet
tribual adjective Alt. of Tribular
tribune noun An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls., Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.
tribute noun An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute., A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved; as, a tribute of affection., A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense., To pay as tribute.
triceps noun A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.
tricked imp. & past participle of Trick
tricker noun One who tricks; a trickster., A trigger.
trickle verb t. To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
tricksy adjective Exhibiting artfulness; trickish.
trident noun A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, — the common attribute of Neptune., A three-pronged spear or goad, used for urging horses; also, the weapon used by one class of gladiators., A three-pronged fish spear., A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction., Having three teeth or prongs; tridentate.
triding noun A riding. See Trithing.
triduan adjective Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day.
trifled imp. & past participle of Trifle
trifler noun One who trifles.
trifoly noun Sweet trefoil.
triform adjective Having a triple form or character.
trigamy noun The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.
trigger noun A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity., A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece.
trigone noun A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.
trigram noun Same as Trigraph.
trilith noun Same as Trilithon.
trilled imp. & past participle of Trill
trilogy noun A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare’s ” Henry VI.” is an example.
trimmed imp. & past participle of Trim
trimera noun pl. A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.
trimmer noun One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments., One who does not adopt extreme opinions in politics, or the like; one who fluctuates between parties, so as to appear to favor each; a timeserver., An instrument with which trimming is done., A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.
trindle verb t. & noun See Trundle.
tringle noun A curtain rod for a bedstead.
trinity noun The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality., Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti., Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.
trinket noun A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship’s foremast, probably on a lateen yard., A knife; a cutting tool., A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like., A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy., To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue.
trinkle verb i. To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper.
tri/cia noun pl. The third order of the Linnaean class Polygamia.
triolet noun A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
trionyx noun A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle.
tripped imp. & past participle of Trip
tripang noun See Trepang.
tripery noun A place where tripe is prepared or sold.
tripled imp. & past participle of Triple
triplet noun A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united., Three verses rhyming together., A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two., Three children or offspring born at one birth.
tripody noun Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
tripoli noun An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
tripper noun One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer., An excursionist.
trippet noun A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.
tripsis noun Trituration., Shampoo.
trireme noun An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.
trisect verb t. To cut or divide into three parts., To cut or divide into three equal parts.
trismus noun The lockjaw.
trisuls noun Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident.
tritone noun A superfluous or augmented fourth.
tritova plural of Tritovum
triture noun A rubbing or grinding; trituration.
triumph noun A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy., Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant., A state of joy or exultation for success., Success causing exultation; victory; conquest; as, the triumph of knowledge., A trump card; also, an old game at cards., To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation., To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail., To be prosperous; to flourish., To play a trump card., To obtain a victory over; to prevail over; to conquer. Also, to cause to triumph.
trivant noun A truant.
trivial adjective Found anywhere; common., Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar., Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair., Of or pertaining to the trivium., One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
trivium noun The three ” liberal” arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; — being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence., The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
trochal adjective Resembling a wheel.
trochar noun See Trocar.
trochee noun A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
trochil noun The crocodile bird.
trochus noun Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidae. Some of the species are called also topshells.
troilus noun A large, handsome American butterfly (Euph/ades, / Papilio, troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings.
trolled imp. & past participle of Troll
troller noun One who trolls.
trolley noun Alt. of Trolly
trollop noun A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.
trommel noun A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.
trompil noun An aperture in a tromp.
tronage noun A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool.
trooped imp. & past participle of Troop
trooper noun A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
trophic adjective Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.
tropine noun A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.
tropist noun One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.
trotted imp. & past participle of Trot
trotter noun One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches., The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.
trouble verb t. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate., To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex., To give occasion for labor to; — used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter., Troubled; dark; gloomy., The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity., That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts., A fault or interruption in a stratum.
trounce verb t. To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
trowsed adjective Wearing trousers.
truancy noun The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.
trucked imp. & past participle of Truck
trucker noun One who trucks; a trafficker.
truckle noun A small wheel or caster., To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep., To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
trudged imp. & past participle of Trudge
truffle noun Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.
trumped imp. & past participle of Trump
trumpet noun A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone., A trumpeter., One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it., A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine., To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings., To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
trumpie noun The Richardson’s skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).
truncal adjective Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.
truncus noun The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5.
trundle verb i. A round body; a little wheel., A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck., A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion., A lantern wheel. See under Lantern., One of the bars of a lantern wheel., To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage., To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball., To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another., To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.
trunked adjective Having (such) a trunk.
trunnel noun A trundle., See Treenail.
trusion noun The act of pushing or thrusting.
trussed imp. & past participle of Truss
trusted imp. & past participle of Trust
trustee noun A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process., To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate., To attach (a debtor’s wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.
truster noun One who trusts, or credits., One who makes a trust; — the correlative of trustee.
trypsin noun A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.
tryptic adjective Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.
trysail noun A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; — used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.
tryster noun One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another.