15-letter words containing t, i, l, a, c, e
- superspecialist — a highly skilled specialist
- surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- tableau curtain — a curtain, often used as an act curtain, designed to be drawn aside and up to give a festooned or draped effect.
- talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- telecommunicate — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
- telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
- telekinetically — in a telekinetic manner
- tennis bracelet — a bracelet consisting of a row of individually set, uniformly sized diamonds or other gemstones.
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours
- tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
- the classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication
- the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- the public weal — the public good; the good of society
- theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
- therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- ticket of leave — (formerly) a permit allowing a convict to leave prison, under certain restrictions, and go to work before having served a full term, somewhat similar to a certificate of parole.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- tintagel castle — a ruined castle on a promontory in SW England on the W coast of Cornwall, which is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur
- title insurance — insurance protecting the owner or mortgagee of real estate from lawsuits or claims arising from a defective title.
- torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
- track and field — athletics events
- track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
- track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
- tractor-trailer — a combination trucking unit consisting of a tractor hooked up to a full trailer or a semitrailer.
- travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- tray classifier — A tray classifier is a tank for leaching from a dispersed solid, in which pulp at the bottom of the tank is raked (= moved to the exit) while solvent is forced toward the bottom of the tank.
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- trichloroacetic — as in trichloroacetic acid
- trichloroethane — a volatile nonflammable colourless liquid with low toxicity used for cleaning electrical apparatus and as a solvent; 1,2,3-trichloroethane. Formula: CH3CCl3
- trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
- tricolor camera — a camera for taking color photographs in which three separation negatives are exposed simultaneously by splitting the light from the subject with prisms and mirrors, and exposing through appropriate filters.
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- triple alliance — the alliance (1882–1915) of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
- tuberculization — the process of becoming, or of causing people or animals to become, infected with tuberculosis
- ultra-masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- ultra-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.