13-letter words containing l, e, i, s, t, r
- to raise hell — If you say that someone raises hell, you are emphasizing that they protest strongly and angrily about a situation in order to persuade other people to correct it or improve it.
- torrens title — legal title to land based on record of registration rather than on title deeds
- tortoiseshell — a horny substance of a mottled brown and yellow coloration, composing the laminae that cover the inner body plates of the carapace of certain tortoises or turtles, especially the hawksbill, used for making combs and ornamental articles, inlaying, etc.
- tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
- trailer trash — poor white person
- transfer list — In football, a transfer list is a list of players at a club who may be sold to other clubs.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- transliterate — to change (letters, words, etc.) into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language: to transliterate the Greek Χ as ch.
- transmissible — capable of being transmitted.
- transmittable — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- treasury bill — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
- tree squirrel — any squirrel of the genus Sciurus, with a long, bushy tail, familiar in parks and wooded areas throughout temperate regions.
- triglycerides — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of three hydroxyl groups with fatty acids, naturally occurring in animal and vegetable tissues: an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body.
- trilateralism — the policy or practice of maintaining relations and cooperation between three groups, nations, or regions.
- trilateralist — one engaged in trilateralism
- triliteralism — the characteristic presence of triliteral roots in a language, as in the Semitic languages.
- triquetrously — from a triquetrous point of view
- tubeless tire — a rubber balloon tire made as a single piece without an inner tube.
- turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
- ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
- ultra-leftist — a person with extremely left-wing political views
- ultra-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
- unassertively — in an unassertive manner
- uncourtliness — the lack of courtliness
- undeleterious — injurious to health: deleterious gases.
- underutilised — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
- undisturbedly — in an undisturbed manner
- unilateralism — the advocacy or pursuit of a unilateral policy, especially in disarmament.
- unilateralist — a person or organization that believes in acting independently, without reference to other parties
- unillustrated — not containing illustrations
- unintrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- universal set — the set of all objects or elements considered in a given problem
- unministerial — not befitting a minister, esp relating to a head of a government department
- unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unresistingly — in an unresisting or unopposing manner
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- untarnishable — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
- unterrestrial — not terrestrial; not of or pertaining to this world; other-worldly; extra-terrestrial; heavenly
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- variabilities — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- 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).
- variable star — a star that varies markedly in brightness from time to time.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
- ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech