9-letter words containing r, e, l, t
- telemotor — a mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system by which power is applied at or controlled from a distant point, especially such a system actuating a ship's rudder.
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- teleprint — to print out (a message) using a teleprinter
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- telferage — a transportation system in which cars or other carriers are suspended from or run on wire cables or the like, especially one operated by electricity.
- tellurate — a salt of a telluric acid, as of H 2 TeO or H 6 TeO 6 .
- tellurian — of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants; terrestrial.
- telluride — a binary compound of tellurium with an electropositive element or group.
- tellurion — an apparatus for showing the manner in which the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth and the obliquity of its axis produce the alternation of day and night and the changes of the seasons.
- tellurite — Chemistry. a salt of tellurous acid, as sodium tellurite, Na 2 TeO 3 .
- tellurium — a rare, lustrous, brittle, crystalline, silver-white element resembling sulfur in its properties, and usually occurring in nature combined with gold, silver, or other metals of high atomic weight: used in the manufacture of alloys and as a coloring agent in glass and ceramics. Symbol: Te; atomic weight: 127.60; atomic number: 52; specific gravity: 6.24.
- tellurize — to mix or cause to combine with tellurium.
- tellurous — containing tetravalent tellurium.
- tendulkar — Sachin (ˈsæʃɪn) (Ramesh). born 1973, Indian cricketer: he played in 200 test matches (1989–2013) and was the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in tests (2011) and first to score 100 international centuries (2012)
- tentorial — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- tenurable — related to an academic post carrying tenure
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
- terricole — a plant or animal living on land
- terrorful — intense, sharp, overmastering fear: to be frantic with terror.
- tervalent — trivalent.
- tessellar — of or relating to tessellae
- tetralite — tetryl.
- tetralogy — a series of four related dramas, operas, novels, etc.
- textorial — relating to weaving or weavers
- the girls — a group of women, esp acquaintances
- the lords — the House of Lords in the British Parliament
- the rules — the neighbourhood around certain prisons (esp the Fleet and King's Bench prison) in which trusted prisoners were allowed to live under specified restrictions
- the-trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
- theolatry — worship of a deity.
- theralite — a coarse-grained, phaneritic rock composed of labradorite, nepheline, and augite.
- theriacal — of or relating to a theriac, a mixture once thought to be an antidote to poison such as snake venom or treacle
- therology — the study or science of mammals; mammalogy
- thesaural — relating to a thesaurus
- thirlmere — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District: provides part of Manchester's water supply. Length: 6 km (4 miles)
- thornlike — resembling or having the characteristics of a thorn
- threatful — threatening, menacing or full of threats
- three ply — three-stranded knitting wool
- three-ply — consisting of three thicknesses, laminations, strands, or the like.
- threefold — comprising three parts, members, or aspects; triple: a threefold program.
- threshold — the sill of a doorway.
- throbless — pertaining to something that does not throb or pulsate or that lacks emotion
- throttled — Also called throttle lever. a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve.
- tillering — a plant shoot that springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk.
- tillerman — a person who steers a boat or has charge of a tiller.
- tiltmeter — an instrument used to measure slight changes in the inclination of the earth's surface, usually in connection with volcanology and earthquake seismology.
- tk!solver — Software Arts 1983. Numerical constraint-oriented language. "The TK!Solver Book", M. Konopasek et al, McGraw-Hill 1984.
- tolerable — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- tolerably — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.