10-letter words containing e, t, i, o, l
- triskelion — a symbolic figure consisting of three legs, arms, or branches radiating from a common center, as the device of Sicily and the Isle of Man.
- troctolite — a rare type of coarse-grained igneous rock generally composed mainly of olivine and feldspar
- tropaeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
- trouvaille — a windfall
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turkophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- twice-told — having been told before; related two times.
- twinflower — either of two slender, creeping, evergreen, caprifoliaceous plants, Linnaea borealis, of Europe, or L. americana, of North America, having pink or purplish nodding flowers borne in pairs on threadlike stalks.
- two-tailed — (of a significance test) concerned with the hypothesis that an observed value of a sampling statistic differs significantly from a given value, where an error in either direction is relevant: for instance, in testing the fairness of scales, an inspector will seek to exclude both overweight and underweight goods
- tyrolienne — a dance of the Tyrolean peasants.
- ulceration — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
- ulteriorly — being beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept concealed: ulterior motives.
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind
- unfoliated — shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.
- unifoliate — having only one leaf.
- unisolated — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- unitholder — a person who owns a unit of something
- univoltine — reproducing at a rate of one generation per year, i.e. having one brood of young in one year
- unpolitely — impolitely
- untailored — (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- unviolated — not violated or desecrated
- ureotelism — the state or quality of being ureotelic
- uricotelic — designating those animals, as reptiles or birds, that excrete most of their waste nitrogen in the form of uric acid, usually in the urine
- urogenital — genitourinary.
- velitation — a minor dispute or contest.
- velutinous — having a soft, velvety surface, as certain plants.
- venatorial — of or relating to hunting
- ventilator — a person or thing that ventilates.
- violescent — tending to a violet color: a violescent twilight sky.
- violet ray — the shortest ray of the visible spectrum
- vitriolate — relating to vitriol
- vitriolize — to treat with or change into vitriol.
- voice-lift — a cosmetic surgical operation on the vocal cords to make the voice sound younger
- volatilize — to become volatile; pass off as vapor.
- volumetric — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- vorticella — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Vorticella, having a transparent, bell-shaped body with a retractile stalk.
- waitpeople — Plural form of waitperson.
- weightloss — (uncountable) The loss of bodily weight.
- wellington — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
- white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
- white gold — any of several gold alloys colored white by the presence of nickel, palladium, or platinum.
- white hole — pigeonhole (def 3).
- winkle out — If you winkle information out of someone, you get it from them when they do not want to give it to you, often by tricking them.
- wire cloth — a material of wires of moderate fineness, used for making strainers, manufacturing paper, etc.
- withholden — withheld
- withholder — Agent noun of withhold; one who withholds.
- wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
- world time — Coordinated Universal Time
- worthwhile — such as to repay one's time, attention, interest, work, trouble, etc.: a worthwhile book.