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14-letter words containing a, l, t, e, r, i

  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • territorialism — a principle or system that gives predominance to the landed classes.
  • territoriality — territorial quality, condition, or status.
  • territorialize — to extend by adding new territory.
  • tertiary color — a color, as brown, produced by mixing two secondary colors.
  • testamentarily — in a testamentary manner
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
  • the real thing — If you say that a thing or event is the real thing, you mean that it is the thing or event itself, rather than an imitation or copy.
  • the royal mail — the national postal service of the United Kingdom
  • the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • thermal imager — a piece of equipment used to detect or provide images of people or things
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
  • time simulator — (simulation)   (Tsim) A stack-based simulation language. Contact: ZOLA Technologies.
  • to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • toilet trained — If a child is toilet trained, he or she has learned to use the toilet.
  • tortoise plant — elephant's-foot.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • traditionalize — to make traditional: to traditionalize family reunions.
  • traffic circle — a circular arrangement constructed at the intersection of two or more roads in order to facilitate the passage of vehicles from one road to another.
  • traffic police — a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations
  • training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
  • training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
  • transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
  • transferential — of, relating to, or involving transference.
  • transit circle — meridian circle.
  • transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • transsexuality — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
  • travel trailer — trailer (def 2).
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • trial attorney — a lawyer who is involved in court cases
  • trial examiner — a person appointed to hold hearings and report findings and recommendations to an administrative or quasi-judicial agency or tribunal.
  • trial marriage — an arrangement by which a couple live together for a period of time to see if they are compatible for marriage.
  • trichloracetic — as in trichloracetic acid
  • trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
  • tridimensional — having three dimensions.
  • trihalomethane — a type of chemical compound in which three of the hydrogen atoms in a methane molecule have been replaced by halogen atoms, esp by chlorine in drinking water. Trihalomethanes are thought to be carcinogenic
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