10-letter words containing e, t, i, o, l
- tenderloin — (in beef or pork) the tender meat of the muscle running through the sirloin and terminating before the ribs.
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tesla coil — an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
- test pilot — a pilot employed to test-fly newly-built aircraft.
- tetraploid — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- the police — the organized civil force of a state, concerned with maintenance of law and order, the detection and prevention of crime, etc
- theodolite — Surveying. a precision instrument having a telescopic sight for establishing horizontal and sometimes vertical angles. Compare transit (def 6).
- theologian — a person versed in theology, especially Christian theology; divine.
- theologize — to theorize or speculate upon theological subjects.
- theophilus — a walled plain in the 4th quadrant of the face of the moon: about 65 miles (105 km) in diameter.
- thermopile — a device consisting of a number of thermocouples joined in series, used for generating thermoelectric current or for detecting and measuring radiant energy, as from a star.
- thimerosal — a cream-colored, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 9 H 9 HgNaO 2 S, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
- thiophenol — a colorless, foul-smelling liquid, C 6 H 6 S, used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- tholeiitic — relating to, characteristic of or resembling tholeiite
- tidal bore — an abrupt rise of tidal water moving rapidly inland from the mouth of an estuary.
- tile forth — (language) A Forth interpreter in C for Unix by Mikael Patel <[email protected]>. TILE Forth comes with many Forth libraries. It conforms to the Forth83 standard and is distributed under GPL. Availalbe via FTP from a GNU archive site.
- tiliaceous — belonging to the Tiliaceae, the linden family of plants.
- till money — money set aside for use by a teller, as distinguished from money kept in the vault.
- time clock — a clock with an attachment that may be manually activated to stamp or otherwise record the exact time on a card or tape, used to keep a record of the time of something, as of the arrival and departure of employees.
- tinseltown — Hollywood, California, as a center of the movie industry.
- title role — (in a play, opera, etc.) the role or character from which the title is derived: She sang the title role in Carmen.
- toilet bag — wash bag for toiletries
- toilet set — a set of articles used in grooming, as a mirror, brush, and comb.
- toiletries — any article or preparation used in cleaning or grooming oneself, as soap or deodorant.
- toilsomely — characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.
- toleration — an act or instance of tolerating, especially of what is not actually approved; forbearance: to show toleration toward the protesters.
- tolerative — to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
- tollbridge — a bridge where tolls are collected
- tolu resin — tolu.
- tonalitive — of or relating to tonality
- topazolite — a greenish yellow variety of andradite garnet.
- topicalize — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- torrential — pertaining to or having the nature of a torrent.
- torricelli — Evangelista [e-vahn-je-lee-stah] /ɛˌvɑn dʒɛˈli stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1608–47, Italian physicist.
- tortellini — navel-shaped pasta
- tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
- towel rail — a rail or frame in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- towel ring — a circular hoop in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- tower-mill — a windmill of which only the cap rotates to face the sails into the wind.
- townsville — a seaport on the E coast of Queensland, in E Australia.
- trail rope — a guide rope on an aerostat.
- trampoline — a sheet, usually of canvas, attached by resilient cords or springs to a horizontal frame several feet above the floor, used by acrobats and gymnasts as a springboard in tumbling.
- traymobile — a small table on casters used for conveying food, drink, etc
- tremolitic — relating to tremolite
- tricolette — a knitted fabric made of silk or synthetic yarn, used in the manufacture of wearing apparel.
- tricolored — having three colours
- trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
- trilobated — having three lobes