9-letter words containing l, i, s, e, t
- sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
- sylvinite — an ore containing sylvine
- tableside — the area around or beside a table.
- tablewise — in the form of a table or list
- tailoress — a female tailor
- tailslide — the backward descent of an aeroplane after stalling or losing speed while in an upward trajectory
- taintless — free from or without taint; pure; innocent.
- take silk — to become a Queen's (or King's) Counsel
- talkiness — the quality or condition of being talky; wordiness
- tanalised — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tantalise — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- teasingly — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- tediously — marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- teleseism — a tremor caused by an earthquake originating a great distance from the seismographic station that records it.
- telestich — a poem in which the last letters of successive lines form a word, a phrase, or the consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- telestics — the ancient art of causing statues, idols, etc, to appear to be inhabited by a deity
- televised — broadcast on TV
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- telotaxis — orientation or movement, by an organism with sensory receptors, toward or away from a particular source of stimulation.
- temps lie — a series of systematized and connected arm and leg movements done for practice.
- tensility — of or relating to tension: tensile strain.
- tensional — the act of stretching or straining.
- test film — a short film that serves as an example of a longer work
- testingly — the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- the girls — a group of women, esp acquaintances
- the hills — a hilly and often remote region
- the salii — a group of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century ad and later conquered large areas of Gaul, esp in the north
- thessalía — Thessaly
- tidepools — tidal pool.
- tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
- time slot — allocated period of time
- timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
- titleless — without a title
- titleship — lawful claim to title, especially of property.
- trailside — the side or border of a trail.
- tramlines — streetcar track
- trellised — noting armor having diagonally crisscrossed strips of leather enframing metal plates, the whole being sewn to a flexible backing.
- tricresol — a mixture of the three isomeric cresols.
- triserial — arranged in three series or rows.
- tuileries — a former royal palace in Paris: begun by Catherine de Médicis in 1564; burned by supporters of the Commune in 1871. The gardens that formed part of the palace grounds remain as a public park (Tuileries Gardens)
- turnstile — a structure of four horizontally revolving arms pivoted atop a post and set in a gateway or opening in a fence to allow the controlled passage of people.
- unhostile — not hostile
- unsalient — projecting or pointing outward: a salient angle.
- unsterile — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- unstifled — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
- unstilled — not quieted or stilled; not calmed or appeased
- up-itself — pretentious or pompous
- utilities — the state or quality of being useful; usefulness: This chemical has no utility as an agricultural fertilizer.
- verbalist — a person skilled in the use of words.