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9-letter words starting with tel

  • 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.
  • telferage — a transportation system in which cars or other carriers are suspended from or run on wire cables or the like, especially one operated by electricity.
  • telically — in a purposeful manner
  • tell time — read the hour on an analogue clock
  • tell-tale — a person who heedlessly or maliciously reveals private or confidential matters; tattler; talebearer.
  • tellingly — having force or effect; effective; striking: a telling blow.
  • tellinoid — relating to a tellin
  • tellurate — a salt of a telluric acid, as of H 2 TeO or H 6 TeO 6 .
  • tellurian — of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants; terrestrial.
  • telluride — a binary compound of tellurium with an electropositive element or group.
  • tellurion — an apparatus for showing the manner in which the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth and the obliquity of its axis produce the alternation of day and night and the changes of the seasons.
  • tellurite — Chemistry. a salt of tellurous acid, as sodium tellurite, Na 2 TeO 3 .
  • tellurium — a rare, lustrous, brittle, crystalline, silver-white element resembling sulfur in its properties, and usually occurring in nature combined with gold, silver, or other metals of high atomic weight: used in the manufacture of alloys and as a coloring agent in glass and ceramics. Symbol: Te; atomic weight: 127.60; atomic number: 52; specific gravity: 6.24.
  • tellurize — to mix or cause to combine with tellurium.
  • tellurous — containing tetravalent tellurium.
  • telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
  • telotaxis — orientation or movement, by an organism with sensory receptors, toward or away from a particular source of stimulation.

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