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14-letter words containing o, r, a, l, e, t

  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • territorialism — a principle or system that gives predominance to the landed classes.
  • territoriality — territorial quality, condition, or status.
  • territorialize — to extend by adding new territory.
  • tertiary color — a color, as brown, produced by mixing two secondary colors.
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • texas longhorn — one of a breed of long-horned beef cattle of the southwestern U.S., developed from cattle introduced into North America from Spain and valued for disease resistance, fecundity, and a historical association with the old West: now rare.
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the honourable — a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of another
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the paranormal — paranormal happenings generally
  • the real mccoy — the genuine thing or person as promised, stated, or implied (usually preceded by the or the real): Those other paintings are copies, but this one is the McCoy.
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the royal mail — the national postal service of the United Kingdom
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • thermotolerant — (of plants) able to tolerate, but not thriving in, high temperatures
  • thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • throttle valve — a valve for throttling the working fluid of an engine, refrigerator, etc.
  • time simulator — (simulation)   (Tsim) A stack-based simulation language. Contact: ZOLA Technologies.
  • to close ranks — If you say that the members of a group close ranks, you mean that they are supporting each other only because their group is being criticized.
  • to lend an ear — If you lend an ear to someone or their problems, you listen to them carefully and sympathetically.
  • to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • to smell a rat — If you smell a rat, you begin to suspect or realize that something is wrong in a particular situation, for example that someone is trying to deceive you or harm you.
  • toilet trained — If a child is toilet trained, he or she has learned to use the toilet.
  • tolerance zone — an designated area where prostitutes can work without being arrested
  • tortoise plant — elephant's-foot.
  • total pressure — Total pressure is the total of static pressure p, dynamic pressure q, and gravitational head.
  • tower of babel — an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • traditionalize — to make traditional: to traditionalize family reunions.
  • traffic police — a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations
  • transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
  • transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
  • trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
  • travel voucher — a voucher, usually bought from a travel agency or won in a competition, etc, which can be used to pay for travel costs such as flights, accommodation, etc
  • traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • trial attorney — a lawyer who is involved in court cases
  • trichloracetic — as in trichloracetic acid
  • tridimensional — having three dimensions.
  • trihalomethane — a type of chemical compound in which three of the hydrogen atoms in a methane molecule have been replaced by halogen atoms, esp by chlorine in drinking water. Trihalomethanes are thought to be carcinogenic
  • tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
  • tripersonalist — someone who believes in the Trinity
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