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11-letter words containing l, i, t, e, r, o

  • toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
  • toggle iron — a pin, bolt, or rod placed transversely through a chain, an eye or loop in a rope, etc., as to bind it temporarily to another chain or rope similarly treated.
  • toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
  • toilet roll — A toilet roll is a long narrow strip of toilet paper that is wound around a small cardboard tube.
  • toll bridge — a bridge at which a toll is charged.
  • toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
  • tordesillas — a town in NW Spain, SW of Valladolid: treaty (1494) defining the colonial spheres of Spain and Portugal.
  • toy soldier — child's plaything: small military figure
  • trapezoidal — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
  • trelliswork — latticework.
  • trial horse — an opponent who performs against a superior foe in a workout or exhibition.
  • trichloride — a chloride having three atoms of chlorine, as ferric chloride, FeCl 3 .
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • tricoloured — having three colours
  • trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
  • trim cooler — A trim cooler is a water-cooled heat exchanger which is used in addition to an air-cooled heat exchanger.
  • trincomalee — a seaport in E Sri Lanka.
  • tripersonal — consisting of or existing in three persons, as the Godhead.
  • tripetalous — having three petals.
  • triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
  • triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
  • trisepalous — having three sepals.
  • tropicalize — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • tselinograd — a former name of Akmola.
  • tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
  • tumour-like — (of a growth, swelling, nodule, etc) resembling a tumour or tumours
  • turcopolier — during the Crusades, an officer in charge of a section of turcopoles
  • ultraviolet — beyond the violet in the spectrum, corresponding to light having wavelengths shorter than 4000 angstrom units.
  • unicolorate — of one colour
  • unit holder — an investor in a unit trust fund
  • valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
  • vectorially — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
  • velocimeter — any of various instruments for measuring velocity, as of a wave in water or of sound in air.
  • velocimetry — the measurement of the speed of sound in fluids
  • ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
  • ventriloquy — 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.
  • very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea
  • vibratoless — without vibrato
  • viceroyalty — the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.
  • victorville — a city in SE California.
  • victoryless — without victory
  • violet iris — an iris, Iris verna, of the eastern U.S., having solitary, violet-blue flowers.
  • vital force — the force that animates and perpetuates living beings and organisms.
  • vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • world title — the winner's position in an international competition
  • wriggle out — to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
  • zeolitiform — in the shape of a zeolite
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