11-letter words containing r, i, t, e, o
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- thermotaxis — Biology. movement of an organism toward or away from a source of heat.
- third force — a political faction or party, etc., occupying an intermediate position between two others representing opposite extremes.
- third house — a legislative lobby.
- third order — a branch of a religious order whose members are lay people following the avocations of a secular life.
- thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
- thuriferous — producing frankincense
- tichorrhine — an extinct woolly rhinoceros with a bony nasal septum
- ticonderoga — a village in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.
- 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.
- tischendorf — Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von [loh-buh-gawt free-drikh kawn-stahn-teen fuh n] /ˈloʊ bəˌgɔt ˈfri drɪx ˌkɔn stɑnˈtin fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–74, German Biblical critic.
- titanothere — any member of the extinct mammalian family Brontotheriidae, large, horned relatives of the horse common in North America and Eurasia from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs.
- titleholder — a person who holds a title.
- to the wire — If something goes to the wire, it continues until the last possible moment.
- 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.
- tonic water — drink: carbonated water
- toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
- topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
- topocentric — as seen from, with reference to, or coordinating to a point on the surface of the earth
- tordesillas — a town in NW Spain, SW of Valladolid: treaty (1494) defining the colonial spheres of Spain and Portugal.
- torpedinous — of, relating to, or resembling a torpedo
- torrey pine — a rare pine tree, Pinus torreyana, having a rounded crown of branches, growing in a limited area on the southern coast of California.
- torrid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
- toy soldier — child's plaything: small military figure
- tracheation — the arrangement of tracheae in insects and other arthropods.
- trade union — a labor union of craftspeople or workers in related crafts, as distinguished from general workers or a union including all workers in an industry.
- tragic hero — a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat: Oedipus, the classic tragic hero.
- tragicomedy — a dramatic or other literary composition combining elements of both tragedy and comedy.
- transection — to cut across; dissect transversely.
- trapeziform — formed like a trapezium.
- trapezoidal — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- trelliswork — latticework.
- trepidation — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trepidatory — characterized by trepidation
- tretchikoff — Vladimir. 1913–2006, South African painter, born in Russia, known for his kitsch appeal, especially for his much-reproduced Chinese Girl (1950; also known as The Green Lady)
- trial horse — an opponent who performs against a superior foe in a workout or exhibition.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- triceratops — any of various dinosaurs of the genus Triceratops, of the late Cretaceous Period, having a bony crest on the neck, a long horn over each eye, and a shorter horn on the nose.
- trichloride — a chloride having three atoms of chlorine, as ferric chloride, FeCl 3 .
- trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- tricoloured — having three colours
- tricone bit — A tricone bit is a drill bit with a head that is divided into three main parts.