Telluric

Definitions: Telluric

Telluric

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium.

2. Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air.

Etymology: Telluric \Tel*lu"ric\, adjective. [Latin expression tellus, -uris, the earth: compare to the French expression tellurique.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Telluric

Synonyms: tellurian (adj), terrene (adj), terrestrial (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
World	Adjective: cosmic, cosmical; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun; sublunary, subastral.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Telluric

English words defined with "telluric": Tellurate, Telluric bismuth, Telluric silver, Tellurism, Tellurous, Tetradymite. (references)

Specialty definitions using "telluric": absorption line ♦ telluric acid, telluric current, telluric lines, telluric moisture, telluric ocher, telluric water. (references)

Etymologies containing "telluric": Hydrotelluric ♦ Tellurism. (references)

"Telluric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Telluric" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	3	202,518

Expressions using "telluric": telluric acid ♦ Telluric bismuth ♦ telluric moisture ♦ Telluric silver ♦ telluric water. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "telluric": telluric-current.
	Ending with "telluric": magneto-telluric.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "telluric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tokësor (above ground, earthbound, earthly, earthy, geo-, ground, land, planetary, praedial, predial, sublunary, tellurian, terrain, terrene, terrestrial, territorial, worldly), telurik. (various references)

Bulgarian		телуров. (various references)

Danish		tellursyre (telluric acid), tellurisk undersøgelsesmetode (telluric-current method), tellurisk undersøgelse (telluric-current method), landbasered risico (telluric hazard), jordvand (telluric moisture, telluric water), H2TeO4 (telluric acid). (various references)

Dutch		telluurzuur (telluric acid), telluurwater (telluric moisture, telluric water), tellurische methode (telluric-current method), tellurisch gevaar (telluric hazard), H2TeO4 (telluric acid). (various references)

Finnish		telluurinen menetelmä (telluric-current method), liikkuva vesi (telluric moisture, telluric water). (various references)

French		risque tellurique (telluric hazard), méthode des courants telluriques (telluric-current method), H2TeO4 (telluric acid), eau tellurique (telluric moisture, telluric water), courant tellurique anomal (anomalous telluric current), bornine (telluric bismuth, tetradymite), acide tellurique (telluric acid). (various references)

German		terrestrische Gefahr (telluric hazard), Tellurwasser (telluric moisture, telluric water), Tellursaeure (H2TeO4, telluric acid), Tellursäure (telluric acid), tellurische Untersuchung (telluric-current method), Ortho-Tellursäure (telluric acid), H2TeO4 (H2TeO4, telluric acid), geogene Gefahr (telluric hazard), anomaler tellurischer Strom (anomalous telluric current). (various references)

Greek		τελλουρικό οξύ (H2TeO4, telluric acid). (various references)

Hungarian		földi (countryman, countrymen, earthen, earthly, earthy, fellow countryman, ground, mundane, planetary, tellurian, temporal, terrestrial, wordly, worldly). (various references)

Italian		rischio tellurico (telluric hazard), metodo delle correnti telluriche (telluric-current method), H2TeO4 (H2TeO4, telluric acid), corrente tellurica anomala (anomalous telluric current), acqua tellurica (telluric moisture, telluric water), acido tellurico (H2TeO4, telluric acid). (various references)

Manx		telluragh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ellurictay

Portuguese		telúrico (tellurian). (various references)

Russian		теллурический. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		telurni. (various references)

Spanish		riesgo telúrico (telluric hazard), método de las corrientes telúricas (telluric-current method), corriente telúrica anómala (anomalous telluric current), agua telúrica (telluric moisture, telluric water). (various references)

Swedish		telluriskt vatten (telluric moisture, telluric water), telluriska metoden (telluric-current method). (various references)

Turkish		tellüre ait. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Telluric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mellerick, telluria, tellurics, Telroc. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "telluric" (pronounced 'Tel*lu"ric'): Actinometric, Aerometric, Afric, Anisometric, Anthracometric, Antipodagric, Auric, Boric, Calorimetric, Capric, Chloric, Choric, Citric, Clinometric, Cylindrometric, Cymric, Diaphemetric, Dimetric, Dysuric, Endosmometric, Ethylsulphuric, Euchloric, ferric, Fluoboric, Fulminuric, Galvanometric, Gastroenteric, Glycoluric, gravimetric, Haematinometric, Hematinometric, Hippuric, Hydrochloric, Hydrosulphuric, Hydrotelluric, Igasuric, Isobarometric, Isocyanuric, Isodiametric, Isouric, Lantanuric, Lauric, Lecanoric, Leucoturic, Logometric, Magnetometric, Melanuric, mercuric, Mesonephric, metric, Monodimetric, Monometric, Moric, Nitrohydrochloric, Orthometric, Oxychloric, Ozonometric, Pediatric, Peloric, Pepsinhydrochloric, Peptohydrochloric, Perchloric, Platinichloric, Platinochloric, Pleuric, Pronephric, Pseudo-symmetric, Psoric, Psychiatric, Purpuric, Pyroboric, Pyrocitric, Pyrosulphuric, Pyrouric, Pyruric, Rheometric, Rhombohedric, Roric, Seismometric, Somatopleuric, Succinuric, Sulphauric, sulphuric, symmetric, Theatric, Toluric, Trimetric, Violuric, Vitric, Volumetric. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-l-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: utricle.
	-2 letters: culler, cullet, curite, cutler, luetic, relict, reluct, rillet, rutile, tiller, tuille, uretic.
	-3 letters: celli, citer, cruel, cruet, culet, culti, curet, curie, cuter, cutie, eruct, iller, liter, litre, lucre, recti, recut, relic, relit, rille, telic, tiler, trice, trill, truce, trull, tulle, ulcer, ureic, uteri, utile.
	-4 letters: ceil, cell, celt, cire, cite, clit, clue, cull, cult, cure, curl, curt, cute, ecru, etic, etui, lice, lier, lieu, lilt, lire, lite, litu, luce, lure, lute, rice, riel, rile, rill, rite, rule, tell, tier, tile, till, tire, tirl, true, tule, uric.
	-5 letters: cel, cue, cur, cut, ecu, ell, ice, ill, ire, lei, let, leu, lie, lit, rec, rei, ret, rue, rut, tel, tic, tie, til, tui.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-l-r-t-u"
	+2 letters: citrulline, lenticular, victualler.
	+3 letters: articulable, cellularity, citrullines, lucratively, victuallers.
	+4 letters: articulately, circulatable, diuretically, floriculture, multicolored, multinuclear, neurotically, portcullises, reticulately, revictualled, sericultural, silviculture, sylviculture.
	+5 letters: caulifloweret, cellularities, centrifugally, circumstellar, circumvallate, floricultures, heuristically, intercellular, intercultural, intracellular, metallurgical, multicellular, multiparticle, multispectral, recalculating, recalculation, revictualling, rheumatically, silvicultures, sylvicultures, ultraviolence.
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