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9-letter words containing t, a, c, l

  • suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
  • sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
  • sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
  • supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
  • syncytial — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
  • syndactyl — having certain digits joined together.
  • systaltic — rhythmically contracting.
  • table cut — a variety of step cut in which a very large table is joined to the girdle with a bevel.
  • tachylyte — a black, glassy form of basalt, readily fusible and of a high luster.
  • tack claw — a small hand tool having a handle with a claw at one end for removing tacks.
  • tack-weld — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • tactfully — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
  • tactilely — in a tactile manner
  • tactilist — an artist whose work strives to appeal to the sense of touch
  • tactility — of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch.
  • tactually — of or relating to the sense of touch.
  • tag cloud — a visual representation of user-generated electronic tags or keywords that classify and describe online content, typically an alphabetical list or a grouping of words in different font sizes, as to show relative frequency or provide links to further information: a tag cloud of the words used in the president's speech. See also tag1 (def 9b).
  • tail back — When traffic tails back, a long line of it forms along a road, and moves very slowly or not at all, for example because of road works or an accident.
  • tail coat — a man's fitted coat, cut away over the hips and descending in a pair of tapering skirts behind, usually black and worn as part of full evening dress.
  • tail cone — a cone-shaped component at the rear of a jet engine, rocket, or missile, usually serving as an exhaust pipe.
  • tailpiece — a piece added at the end; an end piece or appendage.
  • tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
  • talk back — the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.
  • talk-back — a communications system enabling those in the studio to hear control-room personnel through a loudspeaker or headphones.
  • tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
  • tchambuli — a member of an indigenous people of Papua New Guinea.
  • tea cloth — A tea cloth is the same as a tea towel.
  • teachable — capable of being instructed, as a person; docile.
  • teachably — in a teachable manner
  • teacherly — characteristic of or pertaining to a teacher; pedagogic.
  • teachless — without teaching
  • teacupful — as much as a teacup will hold, equal to 4 fluid ounces (113 grams).
  • technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
  • tectorial — a rooflike structure.
  • telically — in a purposeful manner
  • tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
  • tentacled — having tentacles.
  • tetanical — related to tetanus
  • thalassic — of or relating to seas and oceans.
  • the cabal — a group of ministers of Charles II that governed from 1667–73: consisting of Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale
  • theriacal — of or relating to a theriac, a mixture once thought to be an antidote to poison such as snake venom or treacle
  • thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
  • thylacine — a wolflike marsupial, Thylacinus cynocephalus, of Tasmania, tan-colored with black stripes across the back: probably extinct.
  • tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
  • timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
  • tocopilla — a seaport in N Chile.
  • 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.
  • toll call — any telephone call involving a higher base rate than that fixed for a local message.
  • tonalitic — relating to or consisting of tonalite
  • tonically — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
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