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

  • unrelative — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
  • untailored — (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
  • urogenital — genitourinary.
  • utriculate — having a utricle; utricular; baglike.
  • vanderbiltCornelius, 1794–1877, U.S. financier.
  • venatorial — of or relating to hunting
  • ventilator — a person or thing that ventilates.
  • vertically — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
  • vestibular — of, relating to, or resembling a vestibule.
  • victualler — a person who furnishes victuals, especially a sutler.
  • violet ray — the shortest ray of the visible spectrum
  • virtualize — to create a virtual version of (a computer, operating system, data storage device, etc.), which is not itself an independent device but both works and appears to the user as a single, physical entity: A virtualized computer server can boost processing power and reduce costs.
  • vitrailled — characterized by the presence of stained-glass windows
  • vitriolate — relating to vitriol
  • vorticella — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Vorticella, having a transparent, bell-shaped body with a retractile stalk.
  • w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
  • water lily — any of various aquatic plants of the genus Nymphaea, species of which have large, disklike, floating leaves and showy flowers, especially N. odorata, of America, or N. alba, of Europe. Compare water lily family.
  • water line — Nautical. the part of the outside of a ship's hull that is just at the water level.
  • water mill — a mill with machinery driven by water.
  • water pill — a diuretic pill.
  • water rail — an Old World rail, Rallus aquaticus, having olive-brown plumage marked with black and a long, red bill.
  • water-laid — noting a rope laid left-handed from three or four plain-laid ropes, in the making of which water was used to wet the fibers instead of the more customary oil or tallow.
  • waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
  • waterville — a city in SW Maine.
  • watervliet — a city in E New York, on the Hudson: oldest U.S. arsenal.
  • wattlebird — any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck.
  • welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
  • wild water — turbulent water in a river, esp as an area for navigating in a canoe as a sport
  • wildcatter — an oil prospector.
  • winlestrae — windlestraw.
  • wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
  • wraithlike — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
  • writ large — If you say that something is writ large, you mean that it is very obvious.
  • x terminal — (hardware)   An intelligent terminal which operates as an X server directly connected to Ethernet. Not to be confused with the program xterm which is an X client.
  • yttrialite — (mineralogy) A rare, highly radioactive yttrium thorium sorosilicate mineral with conchoidal fracture.
  • z particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.
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