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11-letter words containing t, e, l, b, o

  • the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
  • the jobless — those who are unemployed
  • the lebanon — a republic in W Asia, on the Mediterranean: an important centre of the Phoenician civilization in the third millennium bc; part of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 until 1919; gained independence in 1941 (effective by 1945). Official language: Arabic; French and English are also widely spoken. Religion: Muslim and Christian. Currency: Lebanese pound. Capital: Beirut. Pop: 4 131 583 (2013 est). Area: 10 400 sq km (4015 sq miles)
  • thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
  • 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.
  • toddy table — a small stand of the 18th century, used for holding drinks.
  • toggle bolt — an anchor bolt having two hinged wings, ordinarily held open by a spring, for engaging the rough sides of a hole drilled in masonry or the inner surface of a hollow wall.
  • toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
  • toilet bowl — the ceramic bowl of a toilet.
  • tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
  • toll bridge — a bridge at which a toll is charged.
  • toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
  • topless bar — a bar in which barmaids or waitresses work naked from the waist up
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • travel book — a book about travelling to a certain country or region, esp a guidebook
  • treasonable — of the nature of treason.
  • triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
  • trolley bus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
  • troubleshot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
  • tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
  • tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
  • tuberculose — tuberculate.
  • tuberculous — tubercular.
  • tumble down — collapse, fall
  • tumble home — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
  • tumble over — If someone or something tumbles over, they fall, often with a rolling or bouncing movement.
  • tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
  • unadoptable — (of children or animals) not able to be adopted or placed in a home
  • unbrotherly — not brotherly
  • uncountable — not countable; incapable of having the total precisely ascertained: uncountable colonies of bacteria; uncountable kindnesses and small favors.
  • undoubtable — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
  • undoubtedly — not called in question; accepted as beyond doubt; undisputed.
  • unelaborate — not elaborate; not overly or richly detailed
  • unmountable — to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
  • unobligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
  • unstoppable — that cannot be stopped or surpassed; unbeatable: an unstoppable ball team.
  • untolerable — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
  • untouchable — that may not be touched; of a nature such that it cannot be touched; not palpable; intangible.
  • vibratoless — without vibrato
  • whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
  • worldbeater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
  • xenoblastic — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
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