9-letter words containing ele
- styleless — lacking style
- tasteless — having no taste or flavor; insipid.
- teledrama — a drama written especially for broadcast on television.
- teleferic — telpher.
- telegenic — having physical qualities or characteristics that televise well; videogenic.
- telegonus — a son of Odysseus and Circe who unknowingly killed his father and eventually married Penelope.
- telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- telemeter — any of certain devices or attachments for determining distances by measuring the angle subtending a known distance.
- telemetry — any of certain devices or attachments for determining distances by measuring the angle subtending a known distance.
- telemotor — a mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system by which power is applied at or controlled from a distant point, especially such a system actuating a ship's rudder.
- teleology — the doctrine that final causes exist.
- teleonomy — Biology. the principle that the body's structures and functions serve an overall purpose, as in assuring the survival of the organism.
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- telepathy — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
- telepheme — a message sent by telephone
- telephone — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
- telephony — the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.
- telephoto — noting or pertaining to telephotography.
- teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
- telepoint — a system providing a place where a cordless telephone can be connected to a telephone network
- teleprint — to print out (a message) using a teleprinter
- telesales — selling by phone
- telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- teleseism — a tremor caused by an earthquake originating a great distance from the seismographic station that records it.
- telestich — a poem in which the last letters of successive lines form a word, a phrase, or the consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- telestics — the ancient art of causing statues, idols, etc, to appear to be inhabited by a deity
- televised — broadcast on TV
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- the elect — persons belonging to a specially privileged group
- thelement — an archaic contraction of the element
- themeless — a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic: The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.
- titleless — without a title
- tonguelet — a small tongue
- towelette — a small paper towel, usually premoistened in a sealed package.
- traceless — having or leaving no trace: a traceless crime.
- trammeled — Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
- truceless — having no truce
- undeleted — to strike out or remove (something written or printed); cancel; erase; expunge.
- unelected — chosen by vote, as for an office (contrasted with appointed): an elected official.
- unlabeled — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- unleveled — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- unmodeled — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
- unraveled — to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
- uselessly — of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile: It is useless to reason with him.
- valueless — without worth or value; worthless: valueless stocks; a valueless promise.
- voiceless — having no voice; mute.
- wasteless — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.