10-letter words containing n, o, i, e, r, t
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- story line — plot (def 2).
- stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- surjection — onto function.
- swinnerton — Frank (Arthur) 1884–1982, English novelist and critic.
- tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
- tenderloin — (in beef or pork) the tender meat of the muscle running through the sirloin and terminating before the ribs.
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- tengri nor — a salt lake in E Tibet, NW of Lhasa. About 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km); 15,186 feet (4629 meters) above sea level.
- terminator — a person or thing that terminates.
- the minors — the minor leagues, esp. in baseball
- the orient — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- thermionic — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- think over — consider, deliberate
- thirty-one — a cardinal number, 30 plus 1.
- thorianite — a rare mineral, mainly thoria, ThO 2 , but also containing uranium, cerium, and other rare-earth metals, occurring in small, black, cubic crystals: notable for its radioactivity and used as a minor source of thorium.
- tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
- tin opener — gadget for opening cans
- tintometer — a precision instrument for comparing tints or colors with those used as arbitrary standards.
- tintoretto — Il [eel] /il/ (Show IPA), (Jacopo Robusti) 1518–94, Venetian painter.
- toleration — an act or instance of tolerating, especially of what is not actually approved; forbearance: to show toleration toward the protesters.
- tolu resin — tolu.
- torbernite — a mineral, hydrated copper uranium phosphate, CuU 2 P 2 O 12 ⋅12H 2 O, occurring in square tabular crystals of a bright-green color: a minor ore of uranium; copper uranite.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- tormenting — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- torpedoing — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
- torrential — pertaining to or having the nature of a torrent.
- tortellini — navel-shaped pasta
- tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
- tourniquet — Medicine/Medical, Surgery. any device for arresting bleeding by forcibly compressing a blood vessel, as a bandage tightened by twisting.
- towel ring — a circular hoop in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- town crier — (formerly) a person employed by a town to make public announcements or proclamations, usually by shouting in the streets.
- trajection — to transport, transmit, or transpose.
- trampoline — a sheet, usually of canvas, attached by resilient cords or springs to a horizontal frame several feet above the floor, used by acrobats and gymnasts as a springboard in tumbling.
- triaconter — (in ancient Greece) a Greek galley with thirty oars
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
- trichogyne — a hairlike prolongation of a carpogonium, serving as a receptive organ for the spermatium.
- triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
- tripehound — an objectionable person
- trisection — to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- triskelion — a symbolic figure consisting of three legs, arms, or branches radiating from a common center, as the device of Sicily and the Isle of Man.
- tropaeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- trousering — any cloth suitable for trousers
- tumorgenic — producing tumours