13-letter words containing e, c, a, l, r, t
- 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.
- trace element — any element that is required in minute quantities for physiological functioning.
- tracer bullet — a bullet containing a tracer.
- trade balance — balance of trade.
- trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
- trailer truck — a trailer designed to be drawn by a truck tractor or other motor truck.
- translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- treble chance — a method of betting in football pools in which the chances of winning are related to the number of draws and the number of home and away wins forecast by the competitor
- trial balance — a statement of all the open debit and credit items, made preliminary to balancing a double-entry ledger.
- triamcinolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid drug, C 21 H 27 FO 6 , used in the symptomatic treatment of inflammation.
- tricarpellary — having three carpels.
- tricentennial — pertaining to 300 years or a period of 300 years.
- tropical year — year (def 4b).
- tropical zone — Torrid Zone
- tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
- tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
- tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
- ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- unaccelerated — to cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement, etc., in: to accelerate economic growth.
- unarticulated — not articulated
- uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- uncentralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
- unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
- uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- uncorrectable — not able to be fixed
- undirectional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- unextractable — to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force: to extract a tooth.
- unpracticable — impracticable.
- unpredictable — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
- unprotectable — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- unrectifiable — able to be rectified.
- unreluctantly — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- unrespectable — not able to be respected
- unretractable — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- unspectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- unstretchable — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- untheoretical — not theoretical; not belonging or pertaining to the realm of theory; not confined to the theoretical realm; (somewhat) concrete
- vacuum filter — A vacuum filter is a filter in which the liquid passes through more easily because of a vacuum on the liquid output side.
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- velvet carpet — a carpet or rug of pile weave resembling Wilton.