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13-letter words containing t, e, l, u, o

  • suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • sumo wrestler — Japanese wrestling sportsman
  • sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
  • suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
  • superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
  • supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
  • supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
  • superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • support level — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
  • supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
  • surplus store — a shop that sells used items, or items previously purchased but unused, and no longer needed. The items are often military, government or industrial excess
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
  • tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • tempestuously — characterized by or subject to tempests: the tempestuous ocean.
  • temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • tetrapetalous — having four petals.
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • 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 holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • the sum total — the result you get when you add numbers or amounts together
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
  • to lose touch — If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, telephoning, or visiting them.
  • toile de jouy — a cotton or linen fabric characterized by monochromatic prints on a light background.
  • toilet humour — scatological or vulgar jokes
  • tone language — a language, as Swedish, Chinese, Yoruba, or Serbo-Croatian, in which words that are otherwise phonologically identical are distinguished by having different pitches or pitch contour.
  • toque blanche — the tall white hat traditionally worn by a chef
  • total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
  • touchline ban — an official prohibition of a manager or coach from being present on or near the field during a match
  • tour en l'air — a turn executed in the air.
  • tous-les-mois — a large-grained farinaceous food resembling arrowroot, obtained from a South American canna, Canna edulis, and used in baby food.
  • tout ensemble — all together.
  • tout le monde — all the world; everyone
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • trade journal — periodical of a profession
  • treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • tremulousness — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
  • 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-double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • triquetrously — from a triquetrous point of view
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