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11-letter words containing c, e, t, o, l

  • spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • splenectomy — excision or removal of the spleen.
  • stereocilia — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
  • stock clerk — a worker in a stockroom who is in charge of the materials and goods stored there.
  • stock level — the quantity or number of goods or raw materials kept on the premises of a shop or business
  • stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
  • stone canal — (in certain echinoderms) a tube lined with calcareous deposits, connecting the madreporite with a circular canal around the mouth.
  • tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
  • tail covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's tail feathers.
  • technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
  • technologic — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • technophile — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • telecommand — the remote control of electronic devices
  • telecommute — to engage in telecommuting.
  • telecontrol — the remote control of electronic devices
  • telecottage — a communal workplace, situated in a rural area, which contains computers and other facilities linked into a communications network, thereby enabling people to work from remote locations
  • telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • telescopist — someone who is adept with a telescope
  • telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
  • telocentric — of or relating to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is positioned at its end, creating one chromosome arm. Compare acentric (def 2), acrocentric, metacentric (def 2).
  • telodynamic — pertaining to the transmission of mechanical power over considerable distances, as by means of endless cables on pulleys.
  • ten o'clock — 10 A.M., 1100 hours
  • tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
  • term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
  • terricolous — living on or in the ground.
  • terry-cloth — the loop formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncut.
  • the capitol — the main building of the US Congress
  • the council — the local governing authority of a town, county, etc
  • the schools — the medieval Schoolmen collectively
  • theogonical — of or relating to theogony
  • theological — of, relating to, or involved with theology: a theological student.
  • theoretical — given to, forming, or dealing with theories; speculative.
  • thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
  • three-color — having or characterized by the use of three colors.
  • tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
  • tocqueville — Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de [a-lek-see sharl ahn-ree maw-rees kley-rel duh] /a lɛkˈsi ˈʃarl ɑ̃ˈri mɔˈris kleɪˈrɛl də/ (Show IPA), 1805–59, French statesman and author.
  • toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
  • toll charge — traffic fee payable on a road
  • tone colour — the quality of a musical sound that is conditioned or distinguished by the upper partials or overtones present in it
  • touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • translocate — to move or transfer from one place to another; cause to change location; displace; dislocate.
  • trichloride — a chloride having three atoms of chlorine, as ferric chloride, FeCl 3 .
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • tricoloured — having three colours
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