18-letter words containing r, e, n, o, l
- territorialization — to extend by adding new territory.
- tetrachloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
- 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 north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
- the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
- 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.
- thermogalvanometer — a thermoammeter for measuring small currents, consisting of a thermocouple connected to a direct-current galvanometer.
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- 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.
- to all appearances — apparently
- to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
- to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
- to learn the ropes — If you are learning the ropes, you are learning how a particular task or job is done.
- to lose your nerve — If you lose your nerve, you suddenly panic and become too afraid to do something that you were about to do.
- 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
- transcendental ego — (in Kantian epistemology) that part of the self that is the subject and never the object.
- transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
- transition element — any element in any of the series of elements with atomic numbers 21–29, 39–47, 57–79, and 89–107, that in a given inner orbital has less than a full quota of electrons.
- translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
- treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
- triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
- trickle irrigation — drip irrigation.
- tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.
- trobriand islander — a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
- turbine ventilator — a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.
- turn in on oneself — to withdraw or cause to withdraw from contact with others and become preoccupied with one's own problems
- turn on one's heel — to turn around abruptly
- ultralow frequency — an electromagnetic wave with a frequency between 300 and 3000 hertz. Abbreviation: ULF, ulf.
- ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method
- ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
- ultrasound scanner — a device used to examine an internal bodily structure by the use of ultrasonic waves, esp for the diagnosis of abnormality in a fetus
- under (one's) seal — in a document authenticated by one's seal
- under lock and key — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- universal coupling — a coupling between rotating shafts set at an angle to one another, allowing for rotation in three planes.
- unix international — (body) (UI) A consortium including Sun, AT&T and others formed to promote an open environment based on Unix System V, including the Open Look windowing system.
- upper partial tone — overtone (def 1).
- uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
- vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
- very low frequency — any frequency between 3 and 30 kilohertz. Abbreviation: VLF.
- victor emmanuel ii — 1820–78, king of Sardinia 1849–78; first king of Italy 1861–78.