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16-letter words containing e, a, s, t, r, i

  • transfer pricing — the setting of a price for the transfer of raw materials, components, products, or services between the trading units of a large organization
  • transfer station — a place where residential garbage and commercial wastes are compressed, baled, and loaded on vehicles for moving to disposal sites, as for landfill.
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • transpeptidation — the process of transferring an amino acid or group of amino acids from one compound to another.
  • transport police — the national police force for railways in Britain, which protects rail operators, staff and passengers
  • transubstantiate — to change from one substance into another; transmute.
  • trap-door spider — any of several burrowing spiders, of the family Ctenizidae, that construct a tubular nest with a hinged lid.
  • travel insurance — insurance which covers losses that may be incurred while travelling, such as medical expenses, flight cancellations, lost luggage, etc
  • trial separation — an experimental period of living apart
  • tried-and-tested — recognized as reliable; found to be successful
  • trim one's sails — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
  • triple-expansion — noting a power source, especially a steam engine, using the same fluid at three successive stages of expansion to do work in three or more cylinders.
  • tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
  • tungsten carbide — a very hard, black or gray compound of tungsten and carbon, used in the manufacture of cutting and abrasion tools, dies, and wear-resistant machine parts.
  • twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
  • ultra-liberalism — extremely liberal, especially in politics.
  • unattractiveness — the condition of not appealing to the senses or mind through beauty, form, character, etc
  • uncharacteristic — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
  • uncinate process — a curved, bony process on certain ribs of birds that projects backward and overlaps the succeeding rib, serving to strengthen the thorax.
  • unconversational — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • undersecretariat — a department or section of a ministry of which an under secretary is in charge.
  • universalization — to make universal.
  • unrepresentative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • upsilon particle — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
  • utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
  • vasoconstrictive — causing vasoconstriction.
  • vegetable slicer — a device with a sharp blade for slicing vegetables finely;
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • vertical tasting — a tasting of different vintages of one particular wine.
  • vestibular nerve — the part of the auditory nerve in the inner ear that carries sensory information related to body equilibrium.
  • viceregal assent — the formal signing of an act of parliament by a governor general, by which it becomes law
  • victorian values — qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of the family
  • visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.
  • visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
  • visual interface — (tool, text)   (vi) /V-I/, /vi:/, *never* /siks/ A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favourite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984. It tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even some Emacs fans resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of Emacs). See holy wars.
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • warminster broom — a European shrub, Cytisus praecox, of the legume family, having yellowish-white or yellow, pealike flowers.
  • washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
  • water-base paint — latex paint.
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • weatherstripping — A piece of weatherstrip material.
  • welfare benefits — financial assistance; social security payment
  • well-illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • white wood aster — a composite plant, Aster divaricatus, of North America, having flat-topped clusters of white ray flowers and growing in dry woods.
  • wire-transferred — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
  • world federalist — a promoter or supporter of world federalism.
  • writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty
  • ziegler catalyst — any of a group of catalysts, such as titanium trichloride (TiCl3) and aluminium alkyl (Al(CH3)3), that produce stereospecific polymers
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