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13-letter words containing a, t, l, o, r

  • suprarational — not understandable by reason alone; beyond rational comprehension.
  • supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
  • surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
  • tailorability — capable of being made into clothing: tailorable fabrics.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tandem roller — a type of road roller in which the front and back wheels consist of rollers of about the same diameter
  • tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
  • tax collector — sb employed to gather taxes
  • taylor series — an approximation of a given function f at a particular point x, in terms of values of the function and its derivatives at a neighboring point x 0 , by a power series in which the terms are given by f (n) (x 0) (x−x 0) n/n !, where f (n) (x 0) is the derivative of order n evaluated at point x 0 .
  • taylor's gold — a variety of pear from New Zealand
  • teleportation — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
  • temporal bone — either of a pair of thick compound bones forming the part of the skull that encases the inner ear.
  • temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
  • temporal lobe — the lateral lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the occipital lobe.
  • terminal post — A terminal post is the terminal on a battery to which the battery lead is attached.
  • territorially — of or relating to territory or land.
  • tetartohedral — (of a crystal) having one fourth the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • tetrapetalous — having four petals.
  • thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
  • thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
  • thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
  • thaumatolatry — the worship of or excessive admiration for marvels and miracles
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • the last word — final retort
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • the noble art — boxing
  • the pole star — the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
  • theatre lover — sb who enjoys going to plays
  • theoretically — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thong leather — whang2 (def 2).
  • thoracolumbar — of the thoracic and lumbar regions
  • thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • three old cat — three-a-cat.
  • thremmatology — the science of breeding or propagating animals and plants under domestication.
  • thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
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