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