16-letter words containing i, r, a, t, o
- three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
- throat infection — an infection or inflammation of the throat or pharynx
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- to blaze a trail — If someone blazes a trail, they discover or develop something new.
- to break the ice — If you break the ice at a party or meeting, or in a new situation, you say or do something to make people feel relaxed and comfortable.
- to clear the air — If you do something to clear the air, you do it in order to resolve any problems or disagreements that there might be.
- to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
- to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
- to lift a finger — If you say that a person does not lift a finger or raise a finger to do something, especially to help someone, you are critical of them because they do nothing.
- to overabound in — to have or contain too large a quantity or number of something
- to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
- to rest in peace — If you express the wish that a dead person may rest in peace, you are showing respect and sympathy for him or her. 'Rest in peace' or 'RIP' is also sometimes written on gravestones.
- tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
- toing and froing — going back and forth
- tomato fruitworm — corn earworm.
- topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
- torricelli's law — the law that states that the speed of flow of a liquid from an orifice is equal to the speed that it would attain if falling freely a distance equal to the height of the free surface of the liquid above the orifice.
- torrijos herrera — Omar [aw-mahr] /ɔˈmɑr/ (Show IPA), 1929–81, Panamanian military and political leader: chief of state 1972–78.
- torvill and dean — two British ice dancers, Jayne Torvill, born 1957, and Christopher Dean, born 1958. They won the world championships in 1981–84, the European championships in 1981–82, 1984, and 1994, and the gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games
- tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
- tracking station — a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
- traction control — (in motor racing cars) a method of preventing wheels from spinning when traction is applied by limiting the amount of power supplied to the wheel
- traditionalistic — adherence to tradition as authority, especially in matters of religion.
- trail commission — A trail commission is a further commission of between 0.1 and 1 percent that is paid to an advisor provided that the client’s funds remain invested in the product for a specified time.
- trail one's coat — to invite a quarrel by deliberately provocative behaviour
- train of thought — sequence of ideas
- training college — a school providing training for a special field or profession.
- training officer — a person whose job is to teach people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
- transcontinental — passing or extending across a continent: a transcontinental railroad.
- transculturation — acculturation.
- transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
- 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.
- transformational — the act or process of transforming.
- transilluminator — to cause light to pass through.
- transition point — Physics. a temperature at which a substance undergoes some abrupt change in its properties, as when it passes from the normal to the superconducting state.
- transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
- transnationalism — going beyond national boundaries or interests: a transnational economy.
- 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
- trap-door spider — any of several burrowing spiders, of the family Ctenizidae, that construct a tubular nest with a hinged lid.
- trapezoidal rule — a numerical method for evaluating the area between a curve and an axis by approximating the area with the areas of trapezoids.
- travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
- trial separation — an experimental period of living apart
- trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
- trichotillomania — a compulsion to pull out one's hair.
- trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
- trick-or-treater — a person, typically a child, who goes from door to door in costume on Halloween asking for candy or other treats
- tridarn cupboard — a Welsh cupboard of the late 17th and 18th centuries, with an open, canopied upper section for display.