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Definition: Tunnel |
TunnelNoun1. A passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars); "the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection". 2. A hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter. Verb1. Move through by or as by digging; "burrow through the forest". 2. Force a way through. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tunnel" was first used: 1440. (references) |
Etymology: Tunnel \Tun"nel\, noun. . [French tonnelle a semicircular, wagon-headed vault, a tunnel net, an arbor, Old French also tonnel; diminutive of tonne a tun; -- so named from its resemblance to a tun in shape. See Ton.]. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. A structure, installation, or facility incorporating apparatus to simulate flight conditions in one way or another, specially designed for testing or experimenting with power plants, or with aircraft, rockets, or other aerodynamically designed bodies, engine installations, or models; specifically, a wind tunnel.2. A longitudinal protuberance on a rocket body used to house wiring, piping, etc., so as to not route the wiring through the propellant tanks. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of going through a tunnel is bad for those in business and in love. To see a train coming towards you while in a tunnel, foretells ill health and change in occupation. To pass through a tunnel in a car, denotes unsatisfactory business, and much unpleasant and expensive travel. To see a tunnel caving in, portends failure and malignant enemies. To look into one, denotes that you will soon be compelled to face a desperate issue. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | The now well-confirmed prediction was that ". . . if two super conductors were weakly coupled, a d. c. current would flow or tunnel between them without any potential being applied" Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A)a bore hole in plant tissue, particularly wood or bark, made by an adult insect for oviposition, entry or emergence, or by a larva when feeding; b)(mostly larval)tunnels of wood-boring insects, sometimes packed with frass. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Any sort of passage, tubular or irregular, made by an organism feeding or excavating, more particularly by insects and marine borers. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A horizontal or inclined stone drivage for development or to connect mine workings, seams, or shafts. It may be open to the surface at one end and used for drainage, ventilation, or haulage or as a personnel egress (walking or riding) from the mine workings. See also:tunnelin b. See:crut c. A leaden tube used in making sulfuric acid to connect adjoining chambers in a series d. A long, narrow subterranean passageway. e. A horizontal or nearly horizontal underground passage that is open at both ends. The term is loosely applied in many cases to an adit. An adit, if continued through a hill, would be a tunnel. Any level or drift in a mine open at one end, or which may serve for an adit. Often used as a syn. for adit; drift; gallery. See also:adit f. To penetrate with or as if with a tunnel; to make a passage through orunder; to make or use a tunnel; to undermine. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A tunnel is an underground passage through a mountain or under a waterway, road or railroad.
It may be for pedestrians and/or cyclists, for general road traffic, for motor vehicles only, for rail traffic, or for a canal. Some tunnels are constructed purely for carrying water (for consumption, for hydroelectric purposes or as sewers); others carry other services such as telecommunications cables.
Various combinations are also possible.
The central part of a metro network is usually built in tunnels. To allow non-level crossings, some lines are in deeper tunnels than others. At metro stations there are often also pedestrian tunnels to walk from one platform to another.
At train stations of ground-level railways there are often one or more pedestrian tunnels under the railway to reach the platform(s).
A subway in the UK is a pedestrian tunnel that goes under a road.
The St. Gothard Tunnel opened in Switzerland on September 5, 1980 as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
Construction
Shallow tunnels are of the cut-and-cover type (if under water of the immersed-tube type), deep tunnels are excavated, often using a tunnelling shield. For intermediate levels, both methods are possible.
Cut-and-cover is a method of tunnel construction where a trench is excavated and roofed over. Strong supporting beams are necessary to avoid the danger of the tunnel collapsing.
Wartime tunnels
Castles, sappers
trench warfare: Crimea, US Civil War, WWI
Germany WWII, V2 factories, slave labor
North Korea, infiltrators, midget subs...
Japan, Corregidor, etc. (Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon?)
Vietnam, tunnel rats ("Platoon"?)
Examples of tunnels
See also: List of tunnels, Wind tunnel, Underground city.
- The Lincoln Tunnel between New Jersey and New York is the busiest vehicular tunnel in the world.
- The Sapperton Tunnel in the Thames & Severn Canal in England, dug through hills, which opened in 1789, was 3.5 km long and allowed ship transport of coal.
- The Box Tunnel in England, which opened in 1841, is one of the oldest railway tunnels in the world. It is dug and has a length of 2900 m.
- The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York is the world's oldest underground railway tunnel in a street, built in 1844 by the cut-and-cover method for the Long Island Rail Road. It is 800 m long.
- The Channel tunnel between England and France.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tunnel."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| TUNICS | English | Tunnel integrated control system | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: TunnelSynonym: burrow (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Render concave; Adjective: depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge, gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in. |
Conduit | Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks. |
Expectation | Phrase: we shall see; nous verrons; "expectation whirls me round"; the light at the end of the tunnel. |
Hope | Beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope, dawn of hope, star of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead; light at the end of the tunnel. |
Method | Bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway; drawbridge; pass, ford, ferry, tunnel; pipe. |
Opening | Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery. |
Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It was my intention of getting Epstein in here, and putting this pistol to his ear, and blowing a tunnel through his head (Biloxi Blues; writing credit: Neil Simon) Was that your leg? I had no idea we were going into a tunnel. I thought the compartment was empty (Suspicion; writing credit: Anthony Berkeley; Samson Raphaelson) And then, Graveheart came out of the tunnel, wearing only a salute (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) The tunnel might flood and we can all swim there (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) You love that tunnel more than me. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | We'll ride down baby into this tunnel of love (TUNNEL OF LOVE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) The light at the end of the tunnel (Amazing; performing artist: Aerosmith) Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel (No Leaf Clover; performing artist: Metallica) Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen (What's The Frequency, Kenneth?; performing artist: R.E.M.) You're the tunnel I'm the train (Brand New Day; performing artist: Sting) | |
Clever | The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Il Tunnel sotto il mondo (1969) Tunnel (1968) The Time Tunnel (1966) Le Tunnel (1933) Der Tunnel (1933) | |
Song Titles | Bridge and Tunnel Girls (performing artist: Peter & Bottlecaps Stampfel) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | New York City. View from one of the two towers. Top: Battery Park and entrance to Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Credit: CDC. |  | "Car Walk" (movie) by Brent Solly. Two hyperbolic paraboloids create an overpass for people and a tunnel for cars. |
 | Langley First Wind Tunnel. Credit: NASA. |  | 16 Foot Transonic Tunnel Rehabilitation. Credit: NASA. |
 | Leveling crew entering tunnel on velocipede Hope they knew the train schedule Level party of Herman Odessey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Entering a tunnel on motor velocipede Sure hope nobody's coming the other way Level party of Herman Odessey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Entrance tunnel to the South Pole Station at night. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The outer tunnel at the entrance to South Pole Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Mucking out the tunnel at Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | In a wind tunnel, technician Brent Schroeder prepares to measure how live plants and straw residue slow windblown soil erosion. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Tunnel Exit" by Tommy Johansen Commentary: "Tunnel exit with a bit of motion blur, unfortunatly with some noise." | "Tunnel" by Tom Novak Commentary: "Too fast for me." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And when he closed the flaps the roar was shut off like a train going into a tunnel. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom lay down again and covered himself, covered his bruised cheek with the blanket and made a little tunnel to breathe through |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Testing for carpal tunnel syndrome. (references) | |
It may seem as though they are looking through a tunnel. (references) | ||
The most common form of compression neuropathy is carpal tunnel syndrome. (references) | ||
Business | The Eurostar rail service via the Channel Tunnel has greatly impacted U.K. travelers’ transportation choices. (references) | |
The U.K. civil Aviation Authority reports a decline in the number of air passengers on the London-Paris route since the opening of the Channel Tunnel. (references) | ||
The GON's Transport Plan also makes the point that communications between regions have increased, through improved bridge, tunnel, road and ferry networks. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bulgaria | There are also plans for a north-south road tunnel under Shipka Mountain estimated at $120 million. (references) |
Afghanistan | The Soviets built a road and tunnel through the Salang Pass in 1964, connecting northern and southern Afghanistan. (references) | |
South Korea | During the May 1999 visit to the suspect underground construction site, the U.S. team found a large, empty underground tunnel complex. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | In one prominent example, 105 high-risk prisoners escaped from Carandiru prison in one night in July through a tunnel dug from outside of the prison. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Remember now, at the end of this long, dark tunnel sits Saddam Hussein, Iraq, and Colin Powell's desire to have our imminent attack on Iraq take place as part of a coalition. |
Sylvia Browne | Oh, sure, you go through the tunnel, and children go through, strangely enough, will go across the bridge. It's marvelous what happens. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Tunnel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.87% of the time. "Tunnel" is used about 2,282 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 80.87% | 1,845 | 4,613 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.99% | 411 | 13,718 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.57% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.39% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (common) | 0.18% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,282 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tunnel": annealing tunnel ♦ bored tunnel construction method ♦ carpal tunnel syndrome ♦ channel Tunnel ♦ Cubital Tunnel Syndrome ♦ dig a tunnel ♦ Evans clean flow tunnel ♦ hotshot tunnel ♦ light at the end of the tunnel ♦ passenger stairway tunnel ♦ railroad tunnel ♦ railway tunnel ♦ shaft tunnel ♦ submerged tunnel ♦ supersonic tunnel ♦ sweating tunnel ♦ Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome ♦ the light at the end of the tunnel ♦ transmission tunnel ♦ tunnel diode amplifier ♦ tunnel disease ♦ tunnel driving ♦ tunnel effect ♦ tunnel head ♦ Tunnel Hill ♦ tunnel kiln ♦ tunnel net ♦ tunnel of Corti ♦ tunnel pit ♦ tunnel portal transitions ♦ tunnel shaft ♦ tunnel stern ♦ tunnel stove ♦ tunnel vision ♦ vehicular tunnel ♦ wind tunnel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tunnel": tunnel-boring, tunnel-bound, tunnel-cross-roads, tunnel-diode, tunnel-fighting, tunnel-like, tunnel-loops, tunnel-mouth, tunnel-related, tunnel-slide, tunnel-strewn, tunnel-the, tunnel-vision, tunnel-visioned. | |
Ending with "tunnel": wind-tunnel. | |
Containing "tunnel": wind-tunnel balance, wind-tunnel-proven, wind-tunnel-tested. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
carpal tunnel | 2,390 | tunnel yahoo | 71 |
carpal tunnel syndrome | 1,603 | game spy tunnel | 70 |
tunnel | 936 | carpal tunnel exercise | 67 |
tunnel y | 655 | free tunnel y | 62 |
carpel tunnel syndrome | 334 | tarsal tunnel | 56 |
channel tunnel | 211 | tunnel vision | 52 |
euro tunnel | 209 | sun tunnel | 51 |
chesapeake bay bridge tunnel | 164 | carple tunnel | 48 |
carpal tunnel surgery | 153 | tunnel rat | 46 |
time tunnel | 136 | hoover wind tunnel | 39 |
carpul tunnel | 119 | cubital tunnel | 38 |
pro tunnel y | 114 | carpol tunnel | 38 |
tarsal tunnel syndrome | 111 | carpal tunnel treatment | 38 |
wind tunnel | 101 | play tunnel | 36 |
holland tunnel | 95 | box tunnel x | 34 |
cubital tunnel syndrome | 95 | carpol tunnel syndrome | 33 |
carpal tunnel symptom | 90 | jaw moose tunnel | 32 |
carpal tunnel syndrome symptom | 87 | flesh tunnel | 32 |
carpal tunnel syndrome treatment | 86 | carpal tunnel release | 31 |
lincoln tunnel | 82 | tunnel trance force | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tunnel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tunel (subway, tube), strofull (burrow, den, foxhole, hideout, hole, lair, mew, nest, Warren), galeri (balcony, circle, gallery). (various references) | |
Arabic | نفق المنحم, نفق (subway, tube), إنكماش (retraction, shrink, shrinkage), أنبوب (channel, conduit, duct, hosepipe, igniter, pipe, poop, streamer, tube, tubing), شق نفقا. (various references) | |
Basque | tunel. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тунел (subway, tube), галерия (course, gallery, gangway, loft, passage, passageway, road), прокарвам тунел, пробивам тунел, подземен ход на животно, димоход. (various references) | |
Catalan | túnel. (various references) | |
Chinese | 隧道 . (various references) | |
Czech | tunel. (various references) | |
Danish | tunnelen (narrow fluctuation margins against the dollar), tunnel (canyon, shaft alley, tunnel shaft), varmebehandlingszone (thermal treatment zone), varmebehandlingstunnel (thermal treatment zone), varmebehandlingsfelt (thermal treatment zone), stolle (adit, gallery), skakt (adit, chute, collimator shaft, core, cored hole, discharge pipe, gallery, hopper, lifting hole, plumb-line shaft, shaft, slot, tower, void, well), larvegang (gallery, insect hole, mine), insekthul (bored hole, gallery, insect hole, mine, worm hole), insektgalleri (gallery, insect hole, mine), collar (collar, cylinder), borehul (bore, bore hole, borer hole, burrow, grub, hole, insect hole, needle hole, pin hole, pinworm hole, shot hole, trial pit), boregang (bore, bore hole, borer hole, burrow, grub, hole). (various references) | |
Dutch | tunnel (adit, cylinder, gallery, narrow fluctuation margins against the dollar). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tunelo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | smoga, berghol. (various references) | |
Farsi | نقب زدن (Bore, Burrow, Undermine), نقب راه , نقب (Burrow, Hole, Mine), تونل ساختن , تونل (Tube), سوراخ کوه . (various references) | |
Finnish | tunneli (subway). (various references) | |
French | tunnel (shaft tunnel). (various references) | |
German | Tunnel (subway, tube, tunnels), Stollen (adit, calk, fruit cake, fruit loaf, gallery, mineworkings, stollen, stud). (various references) | |
Greek | σήραγγα (conduit), τούνελ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפלש (culvert, opening), מנהרה, לחפור מנהרה, לחצוב (carve, chisel, hew, quarry), חפירה (burrow, dig, digging, ditch, excavation, sap, trench). (various references) | |
Hungarian | aluljáró (subway, underpass), alagút. (various references) | |
Indonesian | terowongan. (various references) | |
Irish | tollÚn. (various references) | |
Italian | galleria (arcade, balcony, circle, gallery), tunnel (bore, bore hole, borer hole, burrow, chunnel, cylinder, grub, hole, narrow fluctuation margins against the dollar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 坑道 (mine level). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいどう (fielding error, water service, water supply), トンネル , くっしん (elasticity, excavation), どうもん (cave entrance, fellow student), こうどう (action, auditorium, behaviour, brass, conduct, ecliptic, filial piety, justice, level, mobilization, public road, the benevolent Imperial rule, the Imperial Way, traditional incense-smelling game, you, your beautiful home), よこあな (cave). (various references) | |
Korean | 갱도. (various references) | |
Manx | thiollaney (tunnelling), thiollane. (various references) | |
Occitan | tunèl, pertús. (various references) | |
Papiamen | tùnel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unneltay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | túnel (narrow fluctuation margins against the dollar, thermal treatment zone, tunneling, tunnelling). (various references) | |
Romanian | tunel (subway), strãpunge (Gore, penetrate, perforate, Pierce, pin, pink, puncture, Ray, riddle, stab, transfix), pasaj (aisle, arcade, excerpt, extract, fragment, gangway, gateway, pass, passage, passage way, thoroughfare), galerie (ambulatory, audience, backers, corridor, gallery, loft, road, supporters). (various references) | |
Russian | туннель, минная галерея, прокладывать туннель туннельный, дымоход (chimney, flue, funnel, stovepipe). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tunel, prokopati tunel. (various references) | |
Spanish | túnel (cylinder, narrow fluctuation margins against the dollar, shaft alley, shaft tunnel). (various references) | |
Swedish | tunnel (sap, subway, underpass). (various references) | |
Turkish | tünel açmak, tünel (adit, gallery, subway, tube), galeri (adit, gallery, salon). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tonnel (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тунель (subway, tube), штольня, прокладати тунель, димар (chimney, chimney stack, flue, funnel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | máy đào hầm (tunnel-borer). (various references) | |
Welsh | twnnel, ceuffordd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | tonnelle. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tunnel": tunneled, tunneler, tunnelers, tunneling, tunnelled, tunnellike, tunnelling, tunnels. (additional references) | |
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"Tunnel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gunel, Gunnel, Stonnell, tannel, Tanyel, tenel, tennel, tennil, Toninelli, Tonle, Tonnelle, Tufnel, Tufnol, Tugnoli, tunal, tunel, tuney, tunnal, tunney, tunnle, tunnus, tynne, unnel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tunnel" (pronounced tu"nul) |
| 4 | -u" n u l | funnel. |
| 3 | -n u l | infernal, abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, channel, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, departmental, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fennel, fictional, final, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kennel, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-n-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: lunet, unlet. | |
-2 letters: lent, lune, lunt, lute, tule, tune. | |
-3 letters: let, leu, net, nun, nut, tel, ten, tun. | |
-4 letters: el, en, et, ne, nu, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-n-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: annulet, trunnel, tunnels. | |
+2 letters: annulate, annulets, buntline, influent, trunnels, tunneled, tunneler, ungentle, ungently, unlearnt, unmolten, unsilent, untangle. | |
+3 letters: annulment, antennule, bluntness, buntlines, candlenut, confluent, indulgent, influents, pungently, tunnelers, tunneling, tunnelled, unbelting, ungenteel, univalent, untangled, untangles, untenable. | |
+4 letters: annulments, antennular, antennules, antepenult, bluebonnet, candlenuts, centupling, confluents, conventual, delinquent, englutting, engulfment, ineloquent, interlunar, lieutenant, monumental, nucleating, nucleation, outplanned, tunnellike, tunnelling, unaffluent, uncleanest, uneventful, unfoldment, uninflated, univalents, unlamented, unmanliest, unpleasant, unsettling, unsteeling, untalented, unwontedly. | |
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