10-letter words containing o, r, a, t, e
- torquemada — Tomás de [taw-mahs th e] /tɔˈmɑs ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1420–98, Spanish inquisitor general.
- torrential — pertaining to or having the nature of a torrent.
- tortfeasor — a person who commits a tort.
- tote board — a totalizator.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- 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.
- tournament — a trial of skill in some game, in which competitors play a series of contests: a chess tournament.
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- towel rack — a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels or washcloths are hung.
- towel rail — a rail or frame in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- tracheolar — of or relating to the tracheole
- track shoe — a light, heelless, usually leather shoe having either steel spikes for use outdoors on a cinder or dirt track, or a rubber sole for use indoors on a board floor.
- trade book — a book designed for the general public and available through an ordinary book dealer, as distinguished from a limited-edition book, textbook, mass market paperback, etc.
- trade down — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trade show — show (def 22).
- traditores — an early Christian who betrayed other Christians at the time of the Roman persecutions.
- trail rope — a guide rope on an aerostat.
- traitoress — a female traitor
- trajection — to transport, transmit, or transpose.
- trajectory — the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight.
- tramontane — being or situated beyond the mountains.
- 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.
- trance out — to go into a trancelike or ecstatic state, esp through the effects of drugs or music
- transcoder — a technology, such as a software package, used to transfer data from one format to another
- transferor — a person who makes a transfer, as of property.
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- travancore — a former state in SW India: merged 1949 with Cochin to form a new state (Travancore and Cochin) reorganized 1956 to form the larger part of Kerala state.
- travelator — a moving pavement for transporting pedestrians, as in a shopping precinct or an airport
- travelogue — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- traymobile — a small table on casters used for conveying food, drink, etc
- treasonous — treasonable.
- tremolando — (of a piece of music) to be played with tremulous effect
- treponemal — any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- triaconter — (in ancient Greece) a Greek galley with thirty oars
- tricostate — having three ribs, costae, or raised lines.
- trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
- trilobated — having three lobes
- trochanter — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- tropaeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- tropaeolum — any garden plant of the genus Tropaeolum esp the nasturtium
- trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
- tropopause — the boundary, or transitional layer, between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
- trouvaille — a windfall
- turkey oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus cerris, of Eurasia, or Q. laevis and Q. incana, of the southern U.S., that grow on dry, sandy barrens.
- two-bagger — two-base hit.
- two-hander — a play for two actors
- two-master — a vessel rigged with two masts.
- two-seater — a vehicle accommodating two persons.
- tyrosinase — an oxidizing enzyme, occurring in plant and animal tissues, that catalyzes the aerobic oxidation of tyrosine into melanin and other pigments.
- ulceration — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.