9-letter words containing s, t, e, l
- sweetveld — (in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by high-quality grass
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
- sylvester — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
- sylvinite — an ore containing sylvine
- symmetral — relating to symmetry
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- table saw — a circular saw mounted on the underside of a table through which its blade projects: work to be sawed is placed on the table
- tableside — the area around or beside a table.
- tablewise — in the form of a table or list
- tailoress — a female tailor
- tailslide — the backward descent of an aeroplane after stalling or losing speed while in an upward trajectory
- taintless — free from or without taint; pure; innocent.
- take silk — to become a Queen's (or King's) Counsel
- talkiness — the quality or condition of being talky; wordiness
- tanalised — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tantalise — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tasselled — Tasselled means decorated with tassels.
- tasteable — to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
- tasteless — having no taste or flavor; insipid.
- teachless — without teaching
- teaseller — a person who teasels cloth
- teasingly — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- tediously — marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- telegonus — a son of Odysseus and Circe who unknowingly killed his father and eventually married Penelope.
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
- telesales — selling by phone
- telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- teleseism — a tremor caused by an earthquake originating a great distance from the seismographic station that records it.
- telestich — a poem in which the last letters of successive lines form a word, a phrase, or the consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- telestics — the ancient art of causing statues, idols, etc, to appear to be inhabited by a deity
- televised — broadcast on TV
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- tellurous — containing tetravalent tellurium.
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- telotaxis — orientation or movement, by an organism with sensory receptors, toward or away from a particular source of stimulation.
- temps lie — a series of systematized and connected arm and leg movements done for practice.
- tensility — of or relating to tension: tensile strain.
- tensional — the act of stretching or straining.
- tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- tesselate — tessellated
- tessellar — of or relating to tessellae
- test film — a short film that serves as an example of a longer work
- testingly — the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- thankless — not likely to be appreciated or rewarded; unappreciated: a thankless job.
- the bells — the ringing of bells, in a church or other public building, at midnight on December 31st, symbolizing the beginning of a new year