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18-letter words containing le

  • tele-communication — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • telecommunications — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • teleobjective lens — telephoto lens.
  • telephone exchange — a telecommunications facility to which subscribers' telephones connect, that switches calls among subscribers or to other exchanges for further routing.
  • telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
  • telephone sex line — a telephone line operated by a phone-sex worker that offers phone sex to paying customers
  • television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
  • television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
  • television licence — a certificate giving official permission to own a television set
  • television station — station (def 8).
  • the bottomless pit — the underworld; hell
  • the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
  • the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
  • the electric chair — an electrified chair for executing criminals
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
  • the middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
  • the scarlet letter — a novel (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • thermoelectrometer — an instrument for measuring a charge or voltage by means of the heat it produces in a resistance.
  • thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • three-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of three bodies in space moving under the influence of only their mutual gravitational attraction.
  • timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
  • to be tickled pink — If you are tickled pink, you are extremely pleased about something.
  • to bite the bullet — If someone bites the bullet, they accept that they have to do something unpleasant but necessary.
  • to clear the decks — If you clear the decks, you get ready to start something new by finishing any work that has to be done or getting rid of any problems that are in the way.
  • to learn the ropes — If you are learning the ropes, you are learning how a particular task or job is done.
  • to let it be known — If you let it be known that something is the case, or you let something be known, you make sure that people know it or can find out about it.
  • too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
  • traffic controller — a person whose job is to control the flow of air traffic
  • transition element — any element in any of the series of elements with atomic numbers 21–29, 39–47, 57–79, and 89–107, that in a given inner orbital has less than a full quota of electrons.
  • traveling salesman — a male representative of a business firm who travels in an assigned territory soliciting orders for a company's products or services.
  • traveller's cheque — Traveller's cheques are cheques that you buy at a bank and take with you when you travel, for example so that you can exchange them for the currency of the country that you are in.
  • triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
  • trickle irrigation — drip irrigation.
  • ultraviolet filter — a filter used on a lens to absorb ultraviolet radiation that may impart an undesirable blue cast to a photograph.
  • unilateral neglect — a symptom of brain damage in which a person is unaware of one side of his or her body and of anything in the external world on the same side
  • unit magnetic pole — the unit of magnetic pole strength equal to the strength of a magnetic pole that repels a similar pole with a force of one dyne, the two poles being placed in a vacuum and separated by a distance of one centimeter.
  • unpledged delegate — (in the US) a delegate at a national party convention who is free to vote for any candidate
  • up someone's alley — suited to someone's tastes or abilities
  • upper middle class — wealthy, highly-educated people
  • uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
  • valle de la pascua — a city in N Venezuela.
  • visible panty line — the line of someone's underwear which can be seen through trousers
  • wattless component — Electricity. reactive component.
  • weak nuclear force — weak interaction
  • wedge-heeled shoes — shoes with wedge heels
  • wedge-tailed eagle — a large brown Australian eagle, Aquila audax, having a wedge-shaped tail and a wingspan of 3 m
  • wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
  • west puente valley — a town in SW California.
  • western isles pony — a breed of large pony, typically grey, with a dense waterproof coat. The only surviving variety is the Eriskay pony
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