13-letter words containing tor
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- torque wrench — a wrench having a dial or other indicator showing the amount of torque being applied.
- torrens title — legal title to land based on record of registration rather than on title deeds
- torrentiality — the quality or state of being torrential
- torres strait — a strait between NE Australia and S New Guinea. 80 miles (130 km) wide.
- torsion group — a group in which every element has finite order.
- tortilla chip — Tortilla chips are thick crisps made from corn which are often served with dips such as salsa.
- tortilla flat — a novel (1935) by John Steinbeck.
- tortoise-core — Archaeology. a late Lower and Middle Paleolithic stone core characteristic of the Levalloisian tradition of toolmaking, having a rounded top and flattish bottom and prepared in advance to permit the removal of a single ellipsoid flake with one blow from a stone hammer.
- 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.
- tour operator — agent organizing package holidays
- tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
- transistorize — to equip with or convert to a circuit employing transistors.
- truck tractor — tractor (def 2).
- truck-tractor — a powerful motor-driven vehicle with large, heavy treads, used for pulling farm machinery, other vehicles, etc.
- twitter storm — a message on the Twitter website which attracts a significant amount of attention from other Twitter users and may be picked up by mainstream media
- unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
- unmeritorious — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
- vasoinhibitor — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
- vercingetorix — died 45? b.c, Gallic chieftain conquered by Caesar.
- victoria land — a region in Antarctica, bordering on the Ross Sea, mainly in Ross Dependency.
- victoria nile — a section of the upper Nile River in central Uganda between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert. 260 miles (418 km) long.
- victorian box — a tree, Pittosporum undulatum, of Australia, having shiny, wavy-margined, oblong leaves and fragrant clusters of yellowish flowers.
- victoriaville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- vindicatorily — in a vindicatory manner
- violent storm — Meteorology. storm (def 3).
- visitor's tax — a tax that visitors to a place must pay
- vivisectorium — the location where vivisection takes place
- water torture — dripping water onto victim's forehead
- web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals