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16-letter words containing l, e, s, t

  • toulouse-lautrec — Henri Marie Raymond de [ahn-ree ma-ree re-mawn duh] /ɑ̃ˈri maˈri rɛˈmɔ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1864–1901, French painter and lithographer.
  • tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
  • trail one's coat — to invite a quarrel by deliberately provocative behaviour
  • transalpine gaul — an ancient region in W Europe, including the modern areas of N Italy, France, Belgium, and the S Netherlands: consisted of two main divisions, one part S of the Alps (Cisalpine Gaul) and another part N of the Alps (Transalpine Gaul)
  • transcendentally — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
  • transcontinental — passing or extending across a continent: a transcontinental railroad.
  • transcrystalline — situated within or passing through the crystals of a substance.
  • 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.
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • transport police — the national police force for railways in Britain, which protects rail operators, staff and passengers
  • transverse colon — the middle portion of the colon, lying across the upper abdominal cavity between the ascending colon on the right and the descending colon on the left.
  • transverse flute — the normal orchestral flute, as opposed to the recorder (or fipple flute)
  • travel insurance — insurance which covers losses that may be incurred while travelling, such as medical expenses, flight cancellations, lost luggage, etc
  • traveler's check — a check issued in any of various denominations by a bank, travel agency, etc., that is signed by the purchaser upon purchase and again, in the presence of the payee, when cashing the check or using it to pay for goods or services.
  • trial separation — an experimental period of living apart
  • trim one's sails — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
  • triple-expansion — noting a power source, especially a steam engine, using the same fluid at three successive stages of expansion to do work in three or more cylinders.
  • troop the colors — to parade the colors, or flag, before troops
  • twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
  • twin-lens reflex — See under reflex camera. Abbreviation: TLR.
  • two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
  • two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
  • two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • ultra-liberalism — extremely liberal, especially in politics.
  • unconversational — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • under one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • unissued capital — authorized capital that has not yet been issued as shares
  • universalization — to make universal.
  • unostentatiously — (of a person) in a manner that is not trying to impress people with one's wealth or importance
  • unsystematically — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
  • ununderstandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • up to the elbows — deeply engaged (in work, etc.)
  • upsilon particle — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
  • utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
  • vegetable oyster — salsify.
  • vegetable slicer — a device with a sharp blade for slicing vegetables finely;
  • vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • vertical tasting — a tasting of different vintages of one particular wine.
  • vestibular nerve — the part of the auditory nerve in the inner ear that carries sensory information related to body equilibrium.
  • vestibule school — a school in an industrial establishment where new employees are given specific training in the jobs they are to perform.
  • viceregal assent — the formal signing of an act of parliament by a governor general, by which it becomes law
  • victimless crime — a legal offense, as prostitution or gambling, to which all participating parties have consented.
  • victorian values — qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of the family
  • visibility meter — any instrument for measuring the visual range through the atmosphere, as a transmissometer.
  • visible spectrum — the range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that is normally visible, from 380 to 760 nm.
  • visual interface — (tool, text)   (vi) /V-I/, /vi:/, *never* /siks/ A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favourite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984. It tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even some Emacs fans resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of Emacs). See holy wars.
  • visual magnitude — Astronomy. magnitude (def 5a).
  • visual-magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
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