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15-letter words containing tor

  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • remuera tractor — a four-wheel drive vehicle
  • sartor resartus — a satirical work (1833–34) by Carlyle.
  • schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
  • sculptor's tool — the constellation Caelum.
  • self-monitoring — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • service history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
  • sinorespiratory — of, relating to, or affecting the paranasal sinuses and the respiratory tract.
  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • slide projector — device for showing slides
  • soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
  • sociohistorical — involving social and historical elements
  • solar collector — any of numerous devices or systems designed to capture and use solar radiation for heating air or water and for producing steam to generate electricity.
  • sole proprietor — only owner
  • spark generator — an alternating-current power source with a condenser discharging across a spark gap.
  • spectator sport — any sport that can be watched by spectators, as football or basketball, usually for a fee.
  • speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
  • statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • statutory order — a statute that applies further legislation to an existing act
  • steam generator — steam-producing power plant
  • storage battery — a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
  • storage disease — a metabolic disorder characterized by excessive storage in certain cells of normal metabolic intermediates, as fats, iron, and carbohydrates.
  • store detective — A store detective is someone who is employed by a shop to walk around the shop looking for people who are secretly stealing goods.
  • storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
  • sub-distributor — a person or thing that distributes.
  • surge protector — a small device to protect a computer, telephone, television set, or the like from damage by high-voltage electrical surges.
  • system operator — a person who maintains a computer system or network, especially one who operates a computer bulletin board.
  • terminator seed — a seed that produces sterile plants, used in some genetically modified crops so that a new supply of seeds has to be bought every year
  • tertiary sector — The tertiary sector consists of industries which provide a service, such as transport and finance.
  • the motor trade — the business of selling and buying cars and other road vehicles
  • the restoration — the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
  • thermal equator — an imaginary line round the earth running through the point on each meridian with the highest average temperature. It lies mainly to the north because of the larger landmasses and therefore greater summer heating
  • thermal reactor — a nuclear reactor in which most of the fission is caused by thermal neutrons
  • toreador fresco — a mural (c1500 b.c.) from Minoan Crete.
  • torre del greco — a city in SW Italy, near Naples.
  • torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
  • torsion modulus — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
  • tortoise beetle — any of several turtle-shaped leaf beetles, as Chelymorpha cassidea (argus tortoise beetle or milkweed tortoise beetle) which resembles the ladybird beetle and feeds primarily on bindweed and milkweed.
  • tortoise brooch — a domed, oval brooch worn in pairs by Viking women.
  • torture chamber — a room where somebody is caused extreme physical pain, esp in order to extract information, break resistance, etc
  • tractor-trailer — a combination trucking unit consisting of a tractor hooked up to a full trailer or a semitrailer.
  • transequatorial — of, relating to, or near an equator, especially the equator of the earth.
  • transfer factor — a lymphocyte product that, when extracted from T cells of an individual with immunity to a particular antigen, can confer that immunity when administered to another individual of the same species.
  • transhistorical — occurring throughout all human history
  • trust territory — a territory under the administrative control of a country designated by the United Nations.
  • tutorial system — a system of education, especially in some colleges, in which instruction is given personally by tutors, who also act as general advisers of a small group of students in their charge.
  • union territory — one of the 6 administrative territories that, with 28 states, make up the Republic of India
  • universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
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