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11-letter words containing r, e, l, t, o

  • technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
  • teetotaller — a person who abstains totally from intoxicating drink.
  • tele-ported — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
  • telecontrol — the remote control of electronic devices
  • telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
  • telesterion — (in ancient Greece) a building in which religious mysteries were celebrated.
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • telocentric — of or relating to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is positioned at its end, creating one chromosome arm. Compare acentric (def 2), acrocentric, metacentric (def 2).
  • temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
  • temporalize — to make temporal in time; place in time.
  • temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
  • term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
  • terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • terricolous — living on or in the ground.
  • territorial — of or relating to territory or land.
  • terry-cloth — the loop formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncut.
  • tessaraglot — relating to four languages grouped together
  • tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
  • tetrazolium — a derivative of an acidic chemical compound
  • the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
  • theoretical — given to, forming, or dealing with theories; speculative.
  • theriolatry — the worship of theriomorphic deities or deities that are a combination of human and animal forms
  • thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
  • thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
  • thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
  • thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
  • three-color — having or characterized by the use of three colors.
  • thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
  • tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
  • tin soldier — a miniature toy soldier of cast metal, usually of lead.
  • titleholder — a person who holds a title.
  • toddlerhood — the state or time of being a toddler; early childhood.
  • toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
  • toggle iron — a pin, bolt, or rod placed transversely through a chain, an eye or loop in a rope, etc., as to bind it temporarily to another chain or rope similarly treated.
  • toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
  • toilet roll — A toilet roll is a long narrow strip of toilet paper that is wound around a small cardboard tube.
  • toll bridge — a bridge at which a toll is charged.
  • toll charge — traffic fee payable on a road
  • tone colour — the quality of a musical sound that is conditioned or distinguished by the upper partials or overtones present in it
  • tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
  • toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
  • topless bar — a bar in which barmaids or waitresses work naked from the waist up
  • tordesillas — a town in NW Spain, SW of Valladolid: treaty (1494) defining the colonial spheres of Spain and Portugal.
  • torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • toy soldier — child's plaything: small military figure
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