10-letter words containing t, e, l, c, o
- teleologic — of or relating to teleology, the philosophical doctrine that final causes, design, and purpose exist in nature.
- teleonomic — Biology. the principle that the body's structures and functions serve an overall purpose, as in assuring the survival of the organism.
- telephonic — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
- telerecord — to record (a television programme)
- telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
- tenor clef — a sign locating middle C on the next to the top line of the staff.
- terrachlor — pentachloronitrobenzene.
- tesla coil — an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
- the occult — the occult arts or studies
- the police — the organized civil force of a state, concerned with maintenance of law and order, the detection and prevention of crime, etc
- the-clouds — a comedy (423 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- tholeiitic — relating to, characteristic of or resembling tholeiite
- tiliaceous — belonging to the Tiliaceae, the linden family of plants.
- time clock — a clock with an attachment that may be manually activated to stamp or otherwise record the exact time on a card or tape, used to keep a record of the time of something, as of the arrival and departure of employees.
- tocherless — without dowry or tocher
- tocopherol — one of several alcohols that constitute the dietary factor known as vitamin E, occurring in wheat-germ oil, lettuce or spinach leaves, egg yolk, etc.
- tone color — tone quality; timbre.
- topicalize — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- torricelli — Evangelista [e-vahn-je-lee-stah] /ɛˌvɑn dʒɛˈli stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1608–47, Italian physicist.
- toto caelo — by the entire extent of the heavens; diametrically.
- towel rack — a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels or washcloths are hung.
- town clerk — a town official who keeps records and issues licenses.
- tracheolar — of or relating to the tracheole
- tremolitic — relating to tremolite
- tricolette — a knitted fabric made of silk or synthetic yarn, used in the manufacture of wearing apparel.
- tricolored — having three colours
- troctolite — a rare type of coarse-grained igneous rock generally composed mainly of olivine and feldspar
- tuberculo- — tubercular
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- twice-told — having been told before; related two times.
- ulceration — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind
- uncomplete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- uricotelic — designating those animals, as reptiles or birds, that excrete most of their waste nitrogen in the form of uric acid, usually in the urine
- uvulectomy — excision of the uvula.
- vacuolated — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- violescent — tending to a violet color: a violescent twilight sky.
- voice-lift — a cosmetic surgical operation on the vocal cords to make the voice sound younger
- volte-face — a turnabout, especially a reversal of opinion or policy.
- volumetric — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- vorticella — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Vorticella, having a transparent, bell-shaped body with a retractile stalk.
- water-cool — to cool by means of water, especially by water circulating in pipes or a water jacket, as an engine or machine gun.
- watercolor — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
- wire cloth — a material of wires of moderate fineness, used for making strainers, manufacturing paper, etc.
- xenolithic — Being or pertaining to a xenolith.
- zooculture — the domestication of animals
- zoothecial — of or relating to the zoothecia