11-letter words containing m, o, r, e, t
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.
- strong meat — anything arousing fear, anger, repulsion, etc, except among a tolerant or receptive minority
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- supportment — the action of supporting
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- tacheometer — a type of theodolite designed for the rapid measurement of distances, elevations, and directions
- tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
- tailor-made — tailored.
- tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.
- tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
- tate modern — one of the two art galleries in London that make up the Tate Galleries; created in the former Bankside power station in 2000
- tautomerism — the ability of certain organic compounds to react in isomeric structures that differ from each other in the position of a hydrogen atom and a double bond.
- tautomerize — to undergo tautomerism.
- tautometric — having the same metre or arrangement of syllables
- tcp theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- temerarious — reckless; rash.
- temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
- temporalize — to make temporal in time; place in time.
- temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
- tensiometer — an instrument for measuring longitudinal stress in wires, structural beams, etc.
- tensiometry — the study of the measurement of tension
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- term of art — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
- termination — the act of terminating.
- terminatory — pertaining to or forming the extremity or boundary; terminal; terminating.
- terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
- terremotive — related to an earthquake
- tetramerous — consisting of or divided into four parts.
- tetrazolium — a derivative of an acidic chemical compound
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- the moer in — furious; enraged
- theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
- theomorphic — having the form or likeness of God or a deity.
- thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
- thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
- thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
- thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
- thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
- thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thermometer — an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.
- thermometry — the branch of physics dealing with the measurement of temperature.
- thermomotor — a heat engine.
- thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- thermophone — an electroacoustic transducer that forms sound waves by the expansion and contraction of the air adjacent to a conductor that varies in temperature according to the magnitude of the current passing through it; formerly used to calibrate microphones.