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14-letter words containing t, e, l, u

  • suspender belt — garter belt.
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
  • table mountain — a mountain in the Republic of South Africa, near Cape Town. 3550 feet (1080 meters).
  • tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
  • takeout double — informatory double.
  • tall buttercup — a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, naturalized in North American fields and meadows, having a tall stem and shiny yellow flowers.
  • tatar republic — a constituent republic of W Russia, around the confluence of the Volga and Kama Rivers. Capital: Kazan. Pop: 3 779 800 (2002). Area: 68 000 sq km (26 250 sq miles)
  • tax-deductible — noting an item the value or cost of which is deductible from the gross amount on which a tax is calculated.
  • taxable amount — the portion of your income or profits that is subject to tax
  • technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • telejournalism — the writing and broadcasting of journalism for television
  • telejournalist — a journalist who writes for or broadcasts on television
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
  • temperamentful — full of temperament
  • terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the full monty — something in its entirety
  • the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
  • the honourable — a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of another
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • the july sales — a traditional retail event occurring in the month of July, when shops sell things at less than their normal price
  • the last laugh — the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the millennium — the period of a thousand years of Christ's awaited reign upon earth
  • the pole vault — a field event in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
  • the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
  • the silk route — an ancient trade route that linked Asia and the countries of the Mediterranean and was followed by Marco Polo when he travelled to Cathay
  • the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • theologoumenon — a theological assertion or statement not derived from divine revelation
  • theotocopoulos — Domenikos [th aw-men-ee-kaws] /ðɔˈmɛn i kɔs/ (Show IPA), El Greco.
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
  • third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
  • thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
  • thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
  • three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
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