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14-letter words containing e, a, s, t, c

  • tax concession — tax reduction
  • teach a lesson — give a class, give instruction
  • teacher's aide — A teacher's aide is a person who helps a teacher in a school classroom but who is not a qualified teacher.
  • teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
  • technicalities — technical methods and vocabulary
  • telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
  • telescope peak — a mountain in SE California: highest peak in the Panamint Range, above Death Valley. 11,049 feet (3368 meters).
  • telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • telesmatically — in a telesmatic manner
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
  • term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
  • terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
  • test statistic — a statistic used to test a hypothesis.
  • tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
  • the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
  • the cretaceous — the Cretaceous period or rock system
  • the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
  • the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
  • the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
  • the salicaceae — a chiefly N temperate family of trees and shrubs having catkins: includes the willows and poplars
  • the soo canals — the two ship canals linking Lakes Superior and Huron. There is a canal on the Canadian and on the US side of the rapids of the St Mary's River
  • the space race — competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the superior power in outer space, in terms of exploration, manned space flights, and lunar landings; it is generally considered as beginning in 1957 and ending in the mid-1970s
  • thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
  • ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
  • tip the scales — to exercise a decisive influence
  • to be the case — If you say that something is the case, you mean that it is true or correct.
  • to close ranks — If you say that the members of a group close ranks, you mean that they are supporting each other only because their group is being criticized.
  • top-hat scheme — a pension scheme for the senior executives of an organization
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • train sickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the motion of the train in which one is traveling.
  • transcendental — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
  • transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
  • transcutaneous — by way of or through the skin.
  • transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
  • transit circle — meridian circle.
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • transparencies — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
  • transplacental — across or passing through the placenta.
  • transport café — an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
  • transrectifier — a device, usually a vacuum tube, that provides transrectification.
  • treasure chest — A treasure chest is a box containing treasure.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
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