10-letter words containing t, e, l, u
- time value — the duration of a given printed note relative to other notes in a composition or section and considered in relation to the basic tempo
- tirailleur — an African soldier in the French colonial army
- titusville — a town in central Florida.
- tolu resin — tolu.
- tongueless — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- tough love — a mixture of toughness and warmth used in a relationship, especially with an adolescent.
- tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
- trabeculae — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trabecular — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trachelium — (in classical architecture) any member between the hypotrachelium and the capital of a column.
- transvalue — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
- travelogue — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- trickle-up — noting or pertaining to the theory that monetary benefits directed toward small businesses and the poor will gradually pass up to big business and the rich.
- trisulcate — having three grooves or furrows
- trisulfide — a sulfide containing three sulfur atoms.
- triturable — capable of being triturated.
- trolleybus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- tropaeolum — any garden plant of the genus Tropaeolum esp the nasturtium
- troubledly — in a troubled manner
- trouvaille — a windfall
- truculence — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- truculency — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- true level — an imaginary surface everywhere perpendicular to the plumb line, or line of gravity.
- trumpeldor — Joseph, 1880–1920, Zionist leader, born in Russia.
- trunk line — a major long-distance transportation line.
- tubercular — pertaining to tuberculosis; tuberculous.
- tuberculin — a sterile liquid prepared from cultures of the tubercle bacillus, used in the diagnosis and, formerly, in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- tuberculo- — tubercular
- tuberculum — a tubercle.
- tubulature — a tubulation
- tularaemia — a plaguelike disease of rabbits, squirrels, etc., caused by a bacterium, Francisella tularensis, transmitted to humans by insects or ticks or by the handling of infected animals and causing fever, muscle pain, and symptoms associated with the point of entry into the body.
- tule perch — See under perch2 (def 3).
- tulip tree — Also called tulip poplar, yellow poplar. a tall tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, of the magnolia family, native to the eastern U.S., having large, cup-shaped, green and orange flowers: the state tree of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
- tumble-dry — to dry (washing) in a clothes drier in which articles are rotated vertically through heated air.
- tumbledown — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- tumblehome — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- tumbleweed — any of various plants, as Amaranthus albus, A. graecizans, or the Russian thistle, Salsola kali, whose branching upper parts become detached from the roots and are driven about by the wind.
- tumultuate — to create great emotional or mental agitation (in)
- tunbellied — having a tunbelly
- tunnelling — an underground passage.
- turbulence — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
- turbulency — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turkophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turle knot — a special kind of knot for tying a leader, especially of gut, to an eyed hook or fly.
- turnbuckle — a link or sleeve with a swivel at one end and an internal screw thread at the other, or with an internal screw thread at each end, used as a means of uniting or coupling, and of tightening, two parts, as the ends of two rods.
- turtleback — Archaeology. tortoise-core.
- turtledove — any of several small to medium-sized Old World doves of the genus Streptopelia, especially S. turtur, of Europe, having a long, graduated tail: noted for its soft, cooing call.
- turtlehead — any of several North American plants belonging to the genus Chelone, of the figwort family, having opposite, serrated leaves and spikes of purple or white, two-lipped flowers.