14-letter words containing s, t, r, i, c
- teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
- tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
- tender mercies — discretion or compassion
- term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
- the cordeliers — a political club founded in 1790 and meeting at an old Cordelier convent in Paris
- the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
- the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
- thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
- thermochromism — a phenomenon in which certain dyes made from liquid crystals change colour reversibly when their temperature is changed
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thick register — chest register.
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
- thyrotoxicosis — Graves' disease.
- ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
- timber cruiser — cruiser (def 6).
- tissue culture — the technique of cultivating living tissue in a prepared medium outside the body.
- to sb's credit — If something is to someone's credit, they deserve praise for it.
- tortilla chips — snack food: corn crisps
- tourist office — information centre for sightseers
- trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
- trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
- traffic island — a raised or marked-off area between lanes of a roadway, used by pedestrians to get out of the flow of traffic, as a place for traffic signals, for separating lanes, etc.
- traffic lights — a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic
- train sickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the motion of the train in which one is traveling.
- trans-atlantic — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
- trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- transcaucasian — a region in SE Europe, S of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas: constituted a republic 1922–36 (Transcauca·sian So·cialist Fed·erated So·viet Repub·lic) area now includes the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
- transductional — of or relating to transduction
- transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
- transformistic — of or relating to transformism or transformists
- transit circle — meridian circle.
- transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
- transparencies — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
- transrectifier — a device, usually a vacuum tube, that provides transrectification.
- trichomoniasis — a sexually transmitted disease typically asymptomatic in men and resulting in vaginitis with a copious, frothy discharge and itching in women, caused by a trichomonad Trichomonas vaginalis.
- trichophytosis — a skin infection caused by a trichophyton
- trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
- triconsonantal — having three consonants
- trinitrocresol — a yellow, crystalline compound, C 7 H 5 N 3 O 7 , used in high explosives.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- trituberculism — the condition of being trituberculate
- trombiculiasis — the condition of being infested with chiggers.
- tropical storm — a tropical cyclone of less than hurricane force.
- trucial states — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
- trustification — the practice or process of forming a monopolistic system or trusts: the trustification of the oil business.
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- tumbler switch — electrical control
- turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.