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18-letter words containing r, e, l, i

  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • super middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 168 pounds (75.6 kg), between middleweight and light heavyweight.
  • superciliary ridge — browridge.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • surgical appliance — a specialized device used by somebody to relieve a particular medical condition
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
  • swarm intelligence — the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
  • take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
  • technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
  • telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
  • telford and wrekin — a unitary authority in W Central England, in Shropshire. Pop: 160 300 (2003 est). Area: 289 sq km (112 sq miles)
  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
  • terrestrial planet — inner planet.
  • territorial waters — law: nation's boundaries
  • territorialization — to extend by adding new territory.
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
  • the electric chair — an electrified chair for executing criminals
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
  • the practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • there's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
  • therese de lisieux — Saint (Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin"the Little Flower") 1873–97, French Carmelite nun.
  • thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
  • think the world of — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
  • throw in the towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
  • throw oneself into — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
  • to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
  • to play favourites — to display favouritism
  • to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
  • to scrape a living — If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living.
  • traditional weapon — a weapon having ceremonial tribal significance, such as an assegai or knobkerrie
  • traffic controller — a person whose job is to control the flow of air traffic
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