9-letter words containing t, e, o, c, a
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- tail cone — a cone-shaped component at the rear of a jet engine, rocket, or missile, usually serving as an exhaust pipe.
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- taoiseach — The prime minister of the Republic of Ireland is called the Taoiseach.
- tape echo — a means of delaying the repeat of a sound by adjusting the time lapse between the recording and playback heads of a tape recorder
- taxaceous — belonging to the Taxaceae, the yew family of plants.
- tea cloth — A tea cloth is the same as a tea towel.
- tectorial — a rooflike structure.
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- the coast — in the U.S., the Pacific coast
- theaceous — belonging to the Theaceae, the tea family of plants.
- theocracy — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- theomachy — a battle with or among the gods.
- theomancy — divination or prophecy by an oracle or by people directly inspired by a god
- toe crack — a sand crack on the front of the hoof of a horse.
- toe dance — a dance performed on tiptoe
- toe-dance — to perform a toe dance.
- tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- toothache — a pain in or about a tooth.
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- torchable — able to be torched or set alight
- touchable — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- tracheole — any of the smallest branches of an insect trachea.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- trochlear — Anatomy. of, relating to, or connected with a trochlea.
- two-faced — having two faces.
- tycoonate — the office or position of a tycoon
- undercoat — a coat or jacket worn under another.
- unlocated — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- urceolate — shaped like a pitcher; swelling out like the body of a pitcher and contracted at the orifice, as a corolla.
- vacuolate — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- vasectomy — excision of the vas deferens, or of a portion of it: performed to effect sterility in men.
- vaxectomy — (jargon) /vak-sek't*-mee/ (By analogy with "vasectomy") Removal of a VAX. DEC's Microvaxen, especially, are much slower than newer RISC-based workstations such as the SPARC. Thus, if one knows one has a replacement coming, VAX removal can be cause for celebration.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- videocast — a television broadcast of the video only.
- vitaceous — belonging to the Vitaceae, the grape family of plants.
- vitascope — one of the first motion-picture projectors, developed by Thomas Edison.
- whitecoat — a baby seal, usually less than four weeks old and still having its initial white fur.
- wyliecoat — a woolen or flannel undergarment, as a warm undershirt.
- zapotecan — a group of Amerindian languages spoken mainly in Oaxaca, Mexico