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

  • thrombophilia — a condition marked by the tendency to develop blood clots or thrombosis
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
  • to fall short — If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it.
  • to loom large — If something, especially a problem or worry looms large, it occupies a lot of your thoughts and seems important.
  • to lose heart — If you lose heart, you become sad and depressed and are no longer interested in something, especially because it is not progressing as you would like.
  • to raise hell — If you say that someone raises hell, you are emphasizing that they protest strongly and angrily about a situation in order to persuade other people to correct it or improve it.
  • toll traverse — a payment made for the right to cross privately owned property.
  • topographical — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • torrentiality — the quality or state of being torrential
  • tortilla chip — Tortilla chips are thick crisps made from corn which are often served with dips such as salsa.
  • tortilla flat — a novel (1935) by John Steinbeck.
  • tour en l'air — a turn executed in the air.
  • tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
  • touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
  • tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • traction load — the solid material that is carried along the bed of a river
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • trade journal — periodical of a profession
  • trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
  • traditionally — of or relating to tradition.
  • transactional — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
  • translational — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
  • translocation — a change of location.
  • transnational — going beyond national boundaries or interests: a transnational economy.
  • transpersonal — extending beyond or transcending the personal.
  • transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
  • transseasonal — pertaining to, dependent on, or accompanying the seasons of the year or some particular season; periodical: seasonal work.
  • trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
  • treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • trial balloon — a statement, program, or the like issued publicly as a means of determining reactions in advance: The speech was a trial balloon for a new law.
  • triamcinolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid drug, C 21 H 27 FO 6 , used in the symptomatic treatment of inflammation.
  • triangulation — a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.
  • tricarboxylic — pertaining to a molecule that contains three carboxyl groups.
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • trilateration — a method of determining the relative positions of three or more points by treating these points as vertices of a triangle or triangles of which the angles and sides can be measured.
  • triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
  • tripolitanian — of or relating to Tripolitania (now part of Libya) or its inhabitants
  • tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
  • tropical year — year (def 4b).
  • tropical zone — Torrid Zone
  • tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • trucial coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • trujillo alto — a city in NE Puerto Rico, SE of San Juan.
  • tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
  • typographical — of or relating to typography.
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