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13-letter words containing t, o, r, i, e

  • supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
  • support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
  • surreptitious — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
  • sympiesometer — a barometer using a gas, rather than a vacuum, to measure pressure
  • szent-gyorgyi — Albert [al-bert;; Hungarian ol-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; Hungarian ˈɒl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize in medicine 1937.
  • take to drink — If someone takes to drink, they start to drink a lot of alcohol regularly, usually because they are depressed or worried about something.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
  • tariff reform — increase in import duties
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
  • tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
  • taylor series — an approximation of a given function f at a particular point x, in terms of values of the function and its derivatives at a neighboring point x 0 , by a power series in which the terms are given by f (n) (x 0) (x−x 0) n/n !, where f (n) (x 0) is the derivative of order n evaluated at point x 0 .
  • teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
  • teleportation — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
  • telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • temporariness — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
  • temporization — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • teratogenesis — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
  • terbium oxide — an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
  • tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • terminal post — A terminal post is the terminal on a battery to which the battery lead is attached.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • territorially — of or relating to territory or land.
  • terrorization — to fill or overcome with terror.
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • the potteries — a region of W central England, in Staffordshire, in which the china and earthenware industries are concentrated
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • theoretically — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • thereinbefore — before that
  • theriomorphic — (of deities) thought of or represented as having the form of beasts.
  • thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
  • thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
  • thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
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