11-letter words containing d, o, i, t
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.
- strong side — the side of the offensive line where the tight end is positioned, thereby the side having the greater number of players.
- strongyloid — of or relating to a strongyle
- studio flat — a flat with one main room
- stylopodium — a glandular disk or expansion surmounting the ovary and supporting the styles in plants of the parsley family.
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- suraddition — an additional title
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- switched on — turned-on (def 1).
- switched-on — turned-on (def 1).
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- sword-point — the point of a sword
- syndication — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- tailor-made — tailored.
- tax holiday — a period of time during which the government reduces or suspends the collection of a tax, as payroll, property, or sales tax: The state legislature declared a hurricane preparedness tax holiday for items like flashlights and battery-powered radios.
- tediousness — marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- telodynamic — pertaining to the transmission of mechanical power over considerable distances, as by means of endless cables on pulleys.
- tendentious — having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel.
- tenebrionid — darkling beetle.
- territoried — owning territory
- tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- tettigoniid — long-horned grasshopper.
- text editor — a program for editing stored documents, performing such functions as adding, deleting, or moving text.
- thalidomide — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 13 H 10 N 2 O 4 , formerly used as a sedative: if taken during pregnancy, it may cause severe abnormalities in the limbs of the fetus.
- the dolphin — the constellation Delphinus
- the offside — the side of a vehicle nearest the centre of the road (in Britain, the right side)
- thedominion — New Zealand
- theodorakis — Mikis (ˈmikis). born 1925, Greek composer, who wrote the music for the films Zorba the Greek (1965) and Serpico (1973): imprisoned (1967–70) for his opposition to the Greek military government
- theodore ii — pope a.d. 897.
- thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
- think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
- third floor — the storey of a building immediately above the second and three floors up from the ground
- third force — a political faction or party, etc., occupying an intermediate position between two others representing opposite extremes.
- third house — a legislative lobby.
- third order — a branch of a religious order whose members are lay people following the avocations of a secular life.
- third world — the underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty.
- thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
- throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
- thyroiditis — inflammation of the thyroid gland.
- ticonderoga — a village in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.
- 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.
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- time of day — a definite time as shown by a timepiece; the hour: Can you tell me the time of day?