10-letter words containing o, r, n, a, t
- thereamong — amid or amongst
- 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.
- tinctorial — pertaining to coloring or dyeing.
- titanosaur — any amphibious plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Titanosaurus, from the Cretaceous Period, having a long, thin neck and a long, whiplike tail.
- to and fro — back-and-forth: to-and-fro motion.
- to-and-fro — back-and-forth: to-and-fro motion.
- tobramycin — a highly toxic aminoglycoside antibiotic, C 18 H 37 N 5 O 9 , derived from Streptomyces tenebarius, used in the treatment of serious infections due to susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
- togolander — a former German protectorate in W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: E part is now the Republic of Togo; W part, a British mandate 1922–46 and trusteeship 1946–57, is now part of Ghana.
- tolerantly — inclined or disposed to tolerate; showing tolerance; forbearing: tolerant of errors.
- toleration — an act or instance of tolerating, especially of what is not actually approved; forbearance: to show toleration toward the protesters.
- tony hoare — Anthony Hoare
- top-ranked — A top-ranked sports player or team is the most successful player or team in a particular sport.
- torpedoman — a petty officer or warrant officer responsible for the maintenance, use, and repair of underwater weapons and equipment.
- torrential — pertaining to or having the nature of a torrent.
- 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.
- track down — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trackpoint — (hardware) (Or "pointing stick", "nipple") A small knob found in the middle of some keyboards that works like a very short isometric joystick. Pressing it toward or away from you or from side to side moves the pointer on the screen. Ted Selker brought the concept of an in-keyboard pointing device to IBM in September 1987. TrackPoint was introduced in 1992 on the IBM ThinkPad and later on some desktops. It takes up virtually no extra room on the box or the work area and also requires minimal movement of the hands from the keyboard. Many imitations of highly variable quality appeared. Pointing sticks have also been used in many other notebook brands, including TI, HP, Compac, Dell, Toshiba (e.g. Portege 4000's "AccuPoint II"), and AST (e.g. Ascentia 910N). "TrackPoint" and "Trackpoint" are IBM trademarks.
- 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.
- traduction — a transmission or communication
- trajection — to transport, transmit, or transpose.
- tramontana — a cold wind from the north or northeast that blows in the western Mediterranean.
- 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
- transactor — to carry on or conduct (business, negotiations, activities, etc.) to a conclusion or settlement. Synonyms: enact, conclude, settle, manage, negotiate.
- 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.
- transistor — Electronics. a semiconductor device that amplifies, oscillates, or switches the flow of current between two terminals by varying the current or voltage between one of the terminals and a third: although much smaller in size than a vacuum tube, it performs similar functions without requiring current to heat a cathode.
- transition — movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
- transitory — not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
- translator — Also, translater. a person who translates.
- transonics — the study of speeds close to the speed of sound
- transpolar — of or relating to the North or South Pole.
- transposal — transposition.
- transposon — a genetic element that can move from one site in a chromosome to another site in the same or a different chromosome and thus alter the genetic constitution of the organism
- transsonic — transonic.
- 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.
- 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
- trigonally — from a trigonal point of view
- trinocular — of or relating to a binocular microscope equipped with a third lens system for photographic recording.
- tritanopia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to blue and yellow.
- 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.
- trojan war — a ten-year war waged by the confederated Greeks under Agamemnon against the Trojans to avenge the abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, by Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam, and ending in the plundering and burning of Troy.
- trollopian — Anthony, 1815–82, English novelist.
- tropaeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- truncation — the act or process of truncating.