18-letter words containing a, i, r, t, e, l
- teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
- technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
- technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
- tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
- telford and wrekin — a unitary authority in W Central England, in Shropshire. Pop: 160 300 (2003 est). Area: 289 sq km (112 sq miles)
- temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
- tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
- terrestrial planet — inner planet.
- territorial waters — law: nation's boundaries
- territorialization — to extend by adding new territory.
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
- the electric chair — an electrified chair for executing criminals
- the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
- the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
- the general public — the people in a society; people in general
- the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
- the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
- the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
- the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
- the practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
- the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
- the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
- the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
- thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
- thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
- timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
- to play favourites — to display favouritism
- to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
- to scrape a living — If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living.
- traditional weapon — a weapon having ceremonial tribal significance, such as an assegai or knobkerrie
- traffic controller — a person whose job is to control the flow of air traffic
- tranquillizer dart — a dart filled with a tranquillizer that is shot from a gun in order to temporarily sedate an animal so that it may be handled safely
- transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
- transition element — any element in any of the series of elements with atomic numbers 21–29, 39–47, 57–79, and 89–107, that in a given inner orbital has less than a full quota of electrons.
- translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
- traveling salesman — a male representative of a business firm who travels in an assigned territory soliciting orders for a company's products or services.
- travelling library — a mobile library in which a vehicle such as a van delivers books to be borrowed
- treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
- triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
- triarylmethane dye — any of the class of dyes containing three aryl groups attached to a central carbon atom: used chiefly for dyeing cotton, wool, and silk.
- trickle irrigation — drip irrigation.
- tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.
- tristimulus values — three values that together are used to describe a colour and are the amounts of three reference colours that can be mixed to give the same visual sensation as the colour considered
- trobriand islander — a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
- turbine ventilator — a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.
- ulcerative colitis — chronic ulceration in the large intestine, characterized by painful abdominal cramps and profuse diarrhea containing pus, blood, and mucus.
- ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method
- ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact