9-letter words containing l, e, t, i, r
- strifeful — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- surtitles — supertitle.
- tailender — a person at the tail end, esp (in cricket) the batter or batters last in the batting order
- tailgater — a musician who plays trombone in tailgate style.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- tailwater — the water in a tailrace.
- taligrade — walking on the outer side of the foot.
- taylorite — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- tectorial — a rooflike structure.
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- teleferic — telpher.
- teleprint — to print out (a message) using a teleprinter
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- tellurian — of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants; terrestrial.
- telluride — a binary compound of tellurium with an electropositive element or group.
- tellurion — an apparatus for showing the manner in which the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth and the obliquity of its axis produce the alternation of day and night and the changes of the seasons.
- tellurite — Chemistry. a salt of tellurous acid, as sodium tellurite, Na 2 TeO 3 .
- tellurium — a rare, lustrous, brittle, crystalline, silver-white element resembling sulfur in its properties, and usually occurring in nature combined with gold, silver, or other metals of high atomic weight: used in the manufacture of alloys and as a coloring agent in glass and ceramics. Symbol: Te; atomic weight: 127.60; atomic number: 52; specific gravity: 6.24.
- tellurize — to mix or cause to combine with tellurium.
- tentorial — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
- terricole — a plant or animal living on land
- tetralite — tetryl.
- textorial — relating to weaving or weavers
- the girls — a group of women, esp acquaintances
- the-trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
- theralite — a coarse-grained, phaneritic rock composed of labradorite, nepheline, and augite.
- theriacal — of or relating to a theriac, a mixture once thought to be an antidote to poison such as snake venom or treacle
- thirlmere — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District: provides part of Manchester's water supply. Length: 6 km (4 miles)
- thornlike — resembling or having the characteristics of a thorn
- tillering — a plant shoot that springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk.
- tillerman — a person who steers a boat or has charge of a tiller.
- tiltmeter — an instrument used to measure slight changes in the inclination of the earth's surface, usually in connection with volcanology and earthquake seismology.
- top-liner — an entertainer who is important enough to be the star of a show
- tormentil — a low European plant, Potentilla erecta, of the rose family, having small, bright-yellow flowers, and a strongly astringent root used in medicine and in tanning and dyeing.
- tortelier — Paul (pɔl). 1914–90, French cellist and composer
- totalizer — a person or thing that totals.
- towerlike — like a tower
- traguline — like or characteristic of a tragule
- trailable — capable of being trailed.
- trailhead — the point where a trail starts.
- trailside — the side or border of a trail.
- trainable — capable of being trained.
- trainline — a pipe or hose distributing compressed air through a train for operation of the brakes.
- tramlined — having tramlines
- tramlines — streetcar track
- trapezial — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- traveling — activity: journeying
- treadmill — an apparatus for producing rotary motion by the weight of people or animals, treading on a succession of moving steps or a belt that forms a kind of continuous path, as around the periphery of a pair of horizontal cylinders.