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16-letter words containing t, o, a, l, e

  • take (to) flight — to run away; flee
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • take one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
  • take one's leave — to go away; depart
  • take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • take one's place — to take up one's usual or specified position
  • take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
  • take the trouble — If you take the trouble to do something, you do something which requires a small amount of additional effort.
  • tangential point — a point at which a geometric line, curve, plane, or curved surface touches another curve or surface but does not intersect it
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • teachers college — a four-year college offering courses for the training of primary and secondary school teachers and granting the bachelor's degree and often advanced degrees.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • tell one's beads — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • terminal adaptor — (networking, hardware)   (TA) Equipment used to adapt Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Basic Rate Interface (BRI) channels to existing terminal equipment standards such as EIA-232 and V.35. A Terminal Adaptor is typically packaged like a modem, either as a stand-alone unit or as an interface card that plugs into a computer or other communications equipment (such as a router or PBX). A Terminal Adaptor does not interoperate with a modem; it replaces it.
  • terminal moraine — a moraine marking the farthest advance of a glacier or ice sheet.
  • territorial army — The Territorial Army is a British armed force whose members are not professional soldiers but train as soldiers in their spare time.
  • tertiary college — a college system incorporating the secondary school sixth form and vocational courses
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
  • texas revolution — a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the creole state — a nickname for Louisiana
  • the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the hill of tara — the historic seat of the ancient Irish kings, in Co Meath near Dublin
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the little karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
  • the one and only — incomparable and unique
  • the south island — the largest island of New Zealand, separated from the North Island by the Cook Strait. Pop: 1 048 200 (2013 est). Area: 153 947 sq km (59 439 sq miles)
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
  • throw oneself at — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
  • tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
  • to blaze a trail — If someone blazes a trail, they discover or develop something new.
  • to call the tune — If you say that a person or organization is calling the tune, you mean that they are in a position of power or control in a particular situation.
  • to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
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