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18-letter words containing l, i, o

  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
  • technical knockout — the termination of a bout by the referee when it is the judgment of the attending physician, a boxer's seconds, or the referee that a boxer cannot continue fighting without sustaining severe or disabling injury. Abbreviation: TKO, T.K.O.
  • tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
  • tele-communication — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • telecommunications — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • teleobjective lens — telephoto lens.
  • telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
  • telephone sex line — a telephone line operated by a phone-sex worker that offers phone sex to paying customers
  • television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
  • television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
  • television licence — a certificate giving official permission to own a television set
  • television station — station (def 8).
  • telford and wrekin — a unitary authority in W Central England, in Shropshire. Pop: 160 300 (2003 est). Area: 289 sq km (112 sq miles)
  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
  • territorial waters — law: nation's boundaries
  • territorialization — to extend by adding new territory.
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the bottomless pit — the underworld; hell
  • the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
  • the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
  • the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
  • the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
  • the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • there's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
  • think the world of — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • thiosulphuric acid — an unstable acid known only in solutions and in the form of its salts. Formula: H2S2O3
  • thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
  • throw in the towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
  • throw oneself into — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • tick all the boxes — to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success
  • tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • time of one's life — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • to a grinding halt — If you describe a bad situation as grinding, you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends.
  • to be tickled pink — If you are tickled pink, you are extremely pleased about something.
  • to bite the bullet — If someone bites the bullet, they accept that they have to do something unpleasant but necessary.
  • to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
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