11-letter words containing t, u, l, e
- trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
- tripetalous — having three petals.
- triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trisepalous — having three sepals.
- trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
- trolley bus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- troubleshot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- trouser leg — the leg of a pair of trousers
- truckle bed — a low bed moving on casters, usually pushed under another bed when not in use.
- truculently — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- trumpet leg — a turned leg that flares upward and outward from a narrow lower end.
- trundle bed — truckle bed.
- trundletail — a dog with a curly tail.
- trunksleeve — a sleeve that is puffed in shape or contains a large amount of fabric
- trust hotel — a licensed hotel or a bar owned by a publicly elected committee as trustees, the profits of which go to public amenities
- truth table — a table that gives the truth-values of a compound sentence formed from component sentences by means of logical connectives, as AND, NOT, or OR, for every possible combination of truth-values of the component sentences.
- truth-value — the truth or falsehood of a proposition: The truth-value of “2 + 2 = 5” is falsehood.
- trypan blue — dye used for staining cells in biological research
- tuba player — someone who plays the tuba, a valved brass instrument of bass pitch, in which the bell points upwards and the mouthpiece projects at right angles
- tube bundle — A tube bundle is a set of tubes in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger.
- tuberculate — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
- tuberculize — to infect or become infected with tuberculosis
- tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
- tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
- tuberculose — tuberculate.
- tuberculous — tubercular.
- tug-of-love — Journalists sometimes use tug-of-love to refer to a situation in which the parents of a child are divorced and one of the parents tries to get the child from the other, for example by taking him or her illegally.
- tumble cart — a horse-drawn cart having two solid wheels.
- tumble down — collapse, fall
- tumble home — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- tumble over — If someone or something tumbles over, they fall, often with a rolling or bouncing movement.
- tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- tumour-like — (of a growth, swelling, nodule, etc) resembling a tumour or tumours
- tunableness — the quality of being melodious or tuneful
- tunnel-like — resembling a tunnel or tunnels
- turcopolier — during the Crusades, an officer in charge of a section of turcopoles
- turn turtle — any reptile of the order Testudines, comprising aquatic and terrestrial species having the trunk enclosed in a shell consisting of a dorsal carapace and a ventral plastron.
- turriculate — furnished with or resembling a turret or turrets.
- turtle dove — A turtle dove is a type of light-brown dove which makes a soft pleasant sound and which is said to behave in a very affectionate way towards its sexual partner and its young.
- turtle soup — soup made from turtle flesh, usually of the green turtle
- turtledoves — any of several small to medium-sized Old World doves of the genus Streptopelia, especially S. turtur, of Europe, having a long, graduated tail: noted for its soft, cooing call.
- ulsterites' — a former province in Ireland, now comprising Northern Ireland and a part of the Republic of Ireland.
- ultra vires — beyond the legal power or authority of a person, corporation, agent, etc
- ultrafilter — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
- ultramarine — of the color ultramarine.
- ultramodern — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
- ultrasecret — completely secret