13-letter words containing t, r, o, i, l, s
- timbrophilist — a person who loves stamps or who collects stamps
- to raise hell — If you say that someone raises hell, you are emphasizing that they protest strongly and angrily about a situation in order to persuade other people to correct it or improve it.
- torrens title — legal title to land based on record of registration rather than on title deeds
- tortoiseshell — a horny substance of a mottled brown and yellow coloration, composing the laminae that cover the inner body plates of the carapace of certain tortoises or turtles, especially the hawksbill, used for making combs and ornamental articles, inlaying, etc.
- tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
- touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
- transactional — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
- translational — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
- translocation — a change of location.
- transnational — going beyond national boundaries or interests: a transnational economy.
- triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
- triquetrously — from a triquetrous point of view
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- trucial coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
- tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
- turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
- ultracautious — extremely or excessively cautious
- ultraroyalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
- un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
- uncourtliness — the lack of courtliness
- uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- undeleterious — injurious to health: deleterious gases.
- unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
- ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
- violent storm — Meteorology. storm (def 3).
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- voluntaristic — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- whitlow grass — any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- xiphiplastron — the fourth lateral plate of a turtle's plastron