9-letter words containing a, n, t, e, l
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sultanate — the office or rule of a sultan.
- sultaness — sultana (defs 2, 3).
- sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
- tabellion — a scribe or subordinate notary
- tableland — an elevated and generally level region of considerable extent; plateau.
- tableting — Tableting is the production of a disk-shaped solid by compaction or agglomeration of a powder.
- tafelwein — German table wine
- tail cone — a cone-shaped component at the rear of a jet engine, rocket, or missile, usually serving as an exhaust pipe.
- tailender — a person at the tail end, esp (in cricket) the batter or batters last in the batting order
- tailplane — horizontal stabilizer.
- taintless — free from or without taint; pure; innocent.
- talkiness — the quality or condition of being talky; wordiness
- tamerlane — (Timur Lenk) 1336?–1405, Tartar conqueror in southern and western Asia: ruler of Samarkand 1369–1405.
- tana-lake — a river in E Africa, in Kenya, flowing SE to the Indian Ocean. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- tanalised — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tanalized — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tangental — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- tangolike — resembling or characteristic of tango music or dance
- tantalate — a salt of any tantalic acid.
- tantalise — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tantalite — a black, crystalline mineral, iron tantalate, (Fe, Mn) Ta 2 O 6 , the principal ore of tantalum and an end member of a series of solid solutions in which manganese and niobium combine to form columbite.
- tantalize — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- taxiplane — an airplane available for chartered or unscheduled trips.
- teasingly — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- tegmental — of or relating to the tegmentum
- tellurian — of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants; terrestrial.
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- tenaillon — an outwork shoring up a ravelin
- tendulkar — Sachin (ˈsæʃɪn) (Ramesh). born 1973, Indian cricketer: he played in 200 test matches (1989–2013) and was the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in tests (2011) and first to score 100 international centuries (2012)
- tensional — the act of stretching or straining.
- tentacled — having tentacles.
- tentorial — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- tenurable — related to an academic post carrying tenure
- tervalent — trivalent.
- tetanical — related to tetanus
- thankless — not likely to be appreciated or rewarded; unappreciated: a thankless job.
- thinkable — capable of being thought; conceivable.
- thylacine — a wolflike marsupial, Thylacinus cynocephalus, of Tasmania, tan-colored with black stripes across the back: probably extinct.
- tillerman — a person who steers a boat or has charge of a tiller.
- time loan — a loan repayable at a specified date.
- tin plate — thin sheet of tin-coated iron, steel
- tin-plate — to coat (iron or steel sheet) with tin.
- tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- traguline — like or characteristic of a tragule
- trainable — capable of being trained.
- trainline — a pipe or hose distributing compressed air through a train for operation of the brakes.