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13-letter words containing t, e, l, d

  • ten-yard rule — the rule allowing a referee, when a player disputes the award of a penalty or free kick, to penalize the offending side further by moving the place from which the kick is to be taken ten yards further forward
  • tetartohedral — (of a crystal) having one fourth the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
  • the headlines — the main points of a television or radio news broadcast, read out before the full broadcast and summarized at the end
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • the last word — final retort
  • the multitude — the common people
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
  • the palisades — line of steep cliffs in NE N.J. & SE N.Y. on the west shore of the Hudson: c. 15 mi (24 km) long
  • the real deal — a person or thing seen as being authentic and not inferior in any way
  • the small ads — the small ads in a newspaper are short advertisements in which you can advertise something such as an object for sale or a room to let
  • thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
  • thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • thread blight — a fungal disease of woody plants, characterized by thick, threadlike strands of mycelium on the undersides of the leaves and branches.
  • three old cat — three-a-cat.
  • threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
  • thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
  • tidal barrage — a barrier that traps water at high tide, creating a tidal basin
  • time dilation — Physics. (in relativity) the apparent loss of time of a moving clock as observed by a stationary observer.
  • timed-release — sustained-release.
  • tintagel head — a cape in SW England, on the W coast of Cornwall.
  • to end it all — If someone ends it all, they kill themselves.
  • toile de jouy — a cotton or linen fabric characterized by monochromatic prints on a light background.
  • toilet powder — a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.
  • toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
  • tout le monde — all the world; everyone
  • townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
  • trade balance — balance of trade.
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • trade journal — periodical of a profession
  • trade surplus — If a country has a trade surplus, it exports more than it imports.
  • tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
  • trailing edge — the rear edge of a propeller blade or airfoil.
  • transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
  • tread lightly — to proceed with delicacy or tact
  • triglycerides — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of three hydroxyl groups with fatty acids, naturally occurring in animal and vegetable tissues: an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body.
  • trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
  • triple double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • triple-decker — three-decker (defs 3, 4).
  • triple-double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • triple-header — a set of three games, as of basketball, each game being played in the same arena on the same day and often between different pairs of teams.
  • triple-nerved — noting a leaf in which two prominent nerves emerge from the middle nerve a little above its base.
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