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15-letter words containing a, n, t, i, c

  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • tectibranchiate — denoting or relating to the suborder of molluscs Tectibranchia
  • telecommunicate — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • telekinetically — in a telekinetic manner
  • tenant in chief — a feudal vassal who holds land directly from the king.
  • tenant-in-chief — a feudal vassal who holds land directly from the king.
  • tennis bracelet — a bracelet consisting of a row of individually set, uniformly sized diamonds or other gemstones.
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • teratocarcinoma — a monstrous malignant tumour typically found in the testes
  • terra incognita — an unknown or unexplored land, region, or subject.
  • tetrabranchiate — belonging or pertaining to the Nautiloidea (Tetrabranchiata), a subclass or order of cephalopods with four gills, including the pearly nautilus and numerous fossil forms.
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • thanatognomonic — signalling the nearness of death
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
  • the incarnation — the taking on of a human body by the second person of the Trinity; the joining of the divine and the human in Jesus Christ
  • the main chance — the opportunity for personal gain (esp in the phrase an eye to the main chance)
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the renaissance — the period of European history marking the waning of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world: usually considered as beginning in Italy in the 14th century
  • the-night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • thiocyanic acid — an unstable acid, HSCN, known chiefly in the form of its salts.
  • thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
  • thyrocalcitonin — calcitonin
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • timber merchant — a merchant that deals in wood for use as a building material
  • tintagel castle — a ruined castle on a promontory in SW England on the W coast of Cornwall, which is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • title insurance — insurance protecting the owner or mortgagee of real estate from lawsuits or claims arising from a defective title.
  • to call in sick — If you call in sick, you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill.
  • torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
  • toucan crossing — a place where people who are walking and cyclists can both cross a busy road together. They press a button at the side of the road, which operates traffic lights to stop the traffic
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
  • tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
  • traction engine — a locomotive operating on surfaces other than tracks and pulling heavy loads, as fallen logs.
  • trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
  • trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
  • trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
  • traffic calming — Traffic calming consists of measures designed to make roads safer, for example making them narrower or placing obstacles in them, so that drivers are forced to slow down.
  • traffic control — management of road use
  • traffic manager — a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.
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