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Definitions
- 1. special
- 2. unique
- 3. distinguished
- 4. especially
- 5. unusual
- 6. very
Example Sentences
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Words Containing 特
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
Modest (name)
see 特瓦族[tè wǎ zú]
Technicolor
David Hilbert (1862-1943), German mathematician
Hewitt
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
skydiving
Xilinhot City in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[xī lín guō lè méng], Inner Mongolia
special duty (e.g. extra security or traffic control on special occasions)
special
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
particular kind
Mitt Romney (1947-), US Republican contender 2012
Teflon (PRC)
Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania
idiopathic
Montserrat
Vermont, US state
Bactria, an ancient country of Central Asia
Cleopatra (name)
(fashion) model (loanword)
special express
lute (loanword)
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer
Wulanhaote, county-level city, Mongolian Ulaan xot, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[xīng ān méng], east Inner Mongolia
William Bradley \Brad\ Pitt (1963-), US actor and film producer
Crete
Basseterre, capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis
gavotte, French dance popular in 18th century (loanword)
property
Special Olympics
Teresa
Gilbert Islands
Xilinhot City in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[xī lín guō lè méng], Inner Mongolia
Stratford-upon-Avon
wh-question (linguistics)
Lancaster
Scott (name)
Intel
outlets (loanword)
to thwart enemy espionage; to engage in counterespionage
not only
gothic
shit! (loanword)
local specialty
Tripura (Indian state)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), English poet
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
characteristic
Litecoin (cryptocurrency)
special drawing rights (SDR), international currency of the IMF
Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite
Jupiter (Roman god)
Eritrea
Detroit, Michigan
Christchurch (New Zealand city)
Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras
Bayanhot, capital of Alxa League 阿拉善盟[ā lā shàn méng], Inner Mongolia
António Guterres (1949-), secretary-general of the United Nations (2017-), prime minister of Portugal (1995-2002)
Scott (name)
Pratchett (name)
Inuit
Nunavut territory, Canada
Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[tōng liáo], Inner Mongolia
Bayanhot Town, capital of Alxa League 阿拉善盟[ā lā shàn méng], Inner Mongolia
Manchester encoding
oseltamivir
Thoth (ancient Egyptian deity)
pit bull (loanword)
specific
special edition (of magazine)
to have a sale
supernatural power
Mousterian (a Palaeolithic culture)
Westminster Abbey, London
Gulf Port (Florida or Mississippi)
Walt (name)
Barth or Barthes (name)
Knuth or Canute (name)
express (train, delivery etc)
Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳
to be all alone in the world
Gujarat, state in west India
Jeju island special autonomous province, South Korea, a World Heritage site
Helmut (name)
Inuit (politically correct term for Eskimo 愛斯基摩人|爱斯基摩人)
Hobart, capital of Tasmania, Australia
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat 亞西爾·阿拉法特|亚西尔·阿拉法特[yà xī ěr · ā lā fǎ tè]
special price
specialized crowd management vehicle, a riot control vehicle equipped with a water cannon, commonly known as water cannon vehicle 水炮車|水炮车[shuǐ pào chē]
unusual; special
Aztec language (Nahuatl)
Passat (automobile)
Trinidad
special need
special education
fantasy (loanword)
Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), prime minister of Canada 1980-1984 and 1968-1979
Lester or Leicester (name)
for a specific purpose
socialism with Chinese characteristics, phrase introduced by the CCP in 1986 to refer to its ideological model, embracing the economic reforms of the post-Mao era
Luzhi special economic area in Liupanshui 六盤水|六盘水, west Guizhou
special appointment
Tumed left banner, Mongolian Tümed züün khoshuu, in Hohhot 呼和浩特[hū hé hào tè], Inner Mongolia
(Internet slang) hate (loanword)
Dalad banner in Ordos 鄂爾多斯|鄂尔多斯[è ěr duō sī], Inner Mongolia
Richter (name)
Anwar Al Sadat
Goth (e.g. Ostrogoth or Visigoth)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 托爾金|托尔金
voltmeter
special economic zone
Brest, westernmost town in France
Delft, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆[dà qìng], Heilongjiang
Istres (French town)
Giant Manufacturing, Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer
Donald Trump (1946-), American business magnate, US president 2017-2021
clenbuterol
bit (binary digit) (loanword)
Stern (name)
special relation
to criticize severly
Special Region of Yogyakarta, region of Java, Indonesia
special nursing
Wiltshire (English county)
the Copts, major ethnoreligious group of Egyptian Christians
laughable low-budget special effects
express mail
Mt Etna, volcano in Italy
The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟[qiáo sǒu]
Ultraman, Japanese science fiction superhero
Britney, Brittney or Brittany (name)
Charlotte (name)
Stuttgart city in southwest Germany and capital of Baden-Württemberg 巴登·符騰堡州|巴登·符腾堡州[bā dēng · fú téng bǎo zhōu]
characteristic
Tergüel or Teruel, Spain
special effect
General Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006), Chilean dictator
Rochester
Brittany Murphy (1977-2009), American actress
Dalad banner in Ordos 鄂爾多斯|鄂尔多斯[è ěr duō sī], Inner Mongolia
Tourette syndrome
Nordrhein-Westfalen, state of Germany
charter
Tenerife
personal strength
special invitation
hereby
enemy agents in our midst
ancient city of Troy
Sonid Right banner in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[xī lín guō lè méng], Inner Mongolia
Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[chì fēng], Inner Mongolia
Hamlet (name)
Strait of Otranto between the heel of Italy and Albania
Calicut, town on Arabian sea in Kerala, India
Internet connection
Crete
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆[dà qìng], Heilongjiang
Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands
Urat plain in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia
special blend; house blend
Hunter (name)
Port wine
Gatling (name)
Special Jury Prize, award at the Venice Film Festival
eigenvector (math.)
feature article
Special Duties Unit, Hong Kong special police
Brutus (name)
special thanks
Delaware, US state
Beaufort Sea (off Alaska, Yukon and Northwest Territory)
Trafalgar Square (London)
a Saudi
license
ex gratia
to keep on talking about
special local product
Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
Kent (English county)
Tesco, British-based supermarket chain
Mayotte, island between NW Madagascar and Mozambique
special appointment
Ekaterinaburg or Ekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk), Russian town on the Ural mountains
intensive care department (of hospital)
Leicestershire, English county
Cleopatra (c. 70-30 BC), queen of Egypt
Cottbus (city in Germany)
special case
Foster or Forster (name)
intensive care
Rabat, capital of Morocco
franchised operation
Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty
Atlantis
Semitic
Esterhazy (name)
Trafalgar Square (London)
Saudi Arabia
Lancelot (name)
stuntman
Bertrand (name)
Scott (name)
peace envoy
Stallone (name)
cartel (loanword)
Tethys (pre-Cambrian ocean)
child with special needs
Bucharest, capital of Romania
Gurbantunggut Desert, northern Xinjiang
Atkins (name)
Isle of Wight, island off the south coast of England
Vermont, US state
Australian Capital Territory
Swat valley in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
Gloucester city in southwest England
Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), US journalist and activist, reported on China, esp. the communist side
Titus Andronicus, 1593 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Tikrit
Pisistratus (-528 BC), tyrant (ruler) of Athens at different times between 561 BC and 528 BC
White (name)
Trieste, port city in Italy
chief executive of Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong or Macao)
Fiat
Fürth (city in Germany)
Panipat, ancient city in India
volt (loanword)
Manchester
electronvolt (eV)
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat
Hartford
Hohhot prefecture-level city, capital of Inner Mongolia autonomous region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区[nèi měng gǔ zì zhì qū]
Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), US journalist who reported on China, esp. the communist side
SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics)
jitterbug (loanword)
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[tōng liáo], Inner Mongolia
guild (loanword)
Delaware, US state
to be gravely mistaken (idiom)
special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门
Neanderthal man
Dortmund, city in the Ruhr 魯爾區|鲁尔区[lǔ ěr qū], Germany
Tekes River in southeast Kazakhstan and northwest China, a tributary of the Ili River 伊犁河[yī lí hé]
Strauss (name)
special
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian inventor and engineer
especially urgent
Internet
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Winchester (town in south England, capital of former kingdom of Wessex)
Slytherin (Harry Potter)
Châteauroux
Urat Center banner or Urdyn Dund khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia
Anthony and Cleopatra, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Carter (name)
Delaware River, between Pennsylvania and Delaware state, USA
Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland
Twente (region in the Netherlands)
kamikaze unit (Japanese corps of suicide pilots in World War II)
Winterthur, Switzerland
at symbol, @
Whitney Houston (1963-2012), American singer and actress
Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路|丝绸之路
Herat (city in Afghanistan)
special grade
Twitter (microblogging service)
Utrecht, city in Netherlands
Rand or Randt (name)
Urat Rear banner or Urdyn Xoit khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia
Celt
Trevor (name)
plastic bottle
Alicante
megawatt
Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet
special grade
Seth (name)
Washington D.C. (US federal capital)
specialization
commando
effective medicine for a specific condition
Sumgayit, city in Azerbaijan
Jalaid or Zhalaid (name)
Atlanta
special exemption
whist (loanword)
spelt (Triticum spelta) (loanword)
(geology) karst (loanword)
clenbuterol hydrochloride (diet pill that burns fat)
specially
Caterpillar Inc.
Rotterdam, port city in the Netherlands
Kobe Bryant (1978-2020), Los Angeles Lakers NBA star
promotional event
Tumed right banner, Mongolian Tümed baruun khoshuu, in Baotou 包頭|包头[bāo tóu], Inner Mongolia
the right of immunity from arrest afforded by the Taiwan ROC Constitution, for the duration of meetings, unless caught actually committing a crime, to members of the National Assembly, the Legislative Yuan, or a supervisory committee
listeria bacillus
special guest performer (in a show)
nomadic camp
Patrick (name)
Walter
SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics)
Twa or Batwa, an ethnic group in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Pinkafeld (Hungarian Pinkafő) Austrian town on the border with Hungary
outstanding
Gatling gun
anonymous state-sponsored Internet commentator
special care
Helmut Kohl (1930-), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998
Watson (name)
Trier (city in Germany)
Patricia
Albert (name)
Jalaid banner, Mongolian Zhalaid khoshuu, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[xīng ān méng], east Inner Mongolia
Madeleine Albright (1937-), former US Secretary of State
special treatment
Werther, opera by Jules Massenet
Stephanopoulos (e.g. former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos)
Noord Brabant, Netherlands
Aztec (person)
Monte Carlo method (math.)
Saint Patrick
Gloucestershire county in southwest England
specially engaged
special envoy
Wulanhaote, county-level city, Mongolian Ulaan xot, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[xīng ān méng], east Inner Mongolia
Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer
Manchester
characteristic
nit (symbol: nt), unit of luminance (loanword)
Hobart, capital of Tasmania (Australia)
Bitcoin (cryptocurrency)
root beer
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Ford (name)
Petrarch
Stratford (place name)
Split (city in Croatia)
to refer in particular to
jumbo
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French existential philosopher and novelist
Gilbert (name)
Simon and Schuster, US publisher
aspartame C14H18N2O (artificial sweetener)
anonymous state-sponsored Internet commentator
Erfurt (German city)
Ghent, city in Belgium
Trenton, capital of New Jersey
Dartmouth College
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛|简·爱[jiǎn · ài]
secret service
Gujarat, Indian state
Kuwait
Chartered Semiconductor
Ford Motor Company
ex gratia payment
Kate (name)
Trinidad and Tobago
Wright (name)
Erenhot City in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[xī lín guō lè méng], Inner Mongolia
District of Columbia, USA
(fashion) model (loanword)
Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
special
Listeria monocytogene
unique; distinctive
Atlas (Titan in Greek mythology)
Tekes County in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[yī lí hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
Herat province of Afghanistan
vodka (loanword)
Amnesty International
Nantes (city in France)
prerogative
Urat Front banner or Urdyn Ömnöd khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia
Swat province in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
Coptic, Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts 科普特人[kē pǔ tè rén], spoken in Egypt until late 17th century
Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic)
Wittgenstein (name)
to appear on the scene
Gilbert's syndrome
euphemistic equivalent of 他媽的|他妈的[tā mā de]
Cupid (Eros)
Antwerp (city in Belgium)
exceptionally big
Shuanghu special district, Tibetan: Mtsho gnyis don gcod khru'u, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[nà qǔ dì qū], central Tibet
David Hilbert (1862-1943), German mathematician
Seoul Special Metropolitan City, official name of the capital of South Korea
Heraclitus (535-475 BC), pre-Socratic philosopher
Margaret (name)
to thwart espionage; counterespionage
(loanword) baud (computing)
to grant a special pardon
Tel Aviv
Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam
Maastricht
Monte Carlo method (math.)
Strasbourg
Montreal, city in Quebec, Canada
specially
specific (to)
Batna, town in eastern Algeria
Castro (name)
Pitcairn Islands
Teresa
Troodos, Cyprus
Somerset county in southwest England
Fulbright (scholarship)
eigenvalue (math.)
Sonid Left banner in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[xī lín guō lè méng], Inner Mongolia
fatwa (loanword)
Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), Austrian diplomat and politician, secretary-general of UN 1972-1981, president of Austria 1986-1992
Beaumont
Zoroaster
peculiar
Turks and Caicos Islands
Principality of Hutt River (formerly Hutt River Province)
Emma Watson (1990-), British actress
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, essayist and journalist
special administrative region
Clermont (French town)
Hertfordshire (English county)
Rochester
Bertrand (name)
Robert Louis Stevenson (novelist), author of Treasure Island 金銀島|金银岛[jīn yín dǎo]
Portland (city)
Muscat, capital of Oman
Internet service provider (ISP)
(name) Terry
clinical characteristic
to come with a specific purpose in mind
special correspondent
Special Air Service (SAS)
Hohhot prefecture-level city, capital of Inner Mongolia autonomous region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区[nèi měng gǔ zì zhì qū]
patent
Noether (name)
tex, unit of fiber density (textiles) (loanword)
Homer's Iliad
special choice
Trafalgar
characteristic (feature)
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆[dà qìng], Heilongjiang
Lafayette
Charlottetown, capital of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Maharashtra (state in India)
Beatrix (name)
special assignment (military)
Kul Tigin or Kultegin (685-c. 731), general of the Second Turkic Kaganate
Charterhouse public school (UK)
Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer
dynamite (loanword)
intensive care department (of hospital)
Drenthe (name)
Trojan horse
ringgit (monetary unit of Malaysia) (loanword)
to gorge oneself with food
Herbert (name)
(military) special forces
special collection
Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17 astronaut)
McDermott (name)
Grant (name)
exceptionally good
Tyvek (brand)
Brest, town in Belarus
to be unconventional
not only
Nahuatl (language)
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
intensive care
Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897), German mathematician
Eilat, Israeli port and resort on the Red sea
Castellón
listeria bacillus
Dartmouth (place name)
Beirut, capital of Lebanon
allosaurus
Shin Bet (Israel national security service)
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa
Pol Pot (1925-1998), Cambodian communist leader
enemy (agents)
Ramat Gan, city in Israel, location of Bar-Ilan University
Monterey
Mitterrand
Erenhot City in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[xī lín guō lè méng], Inner Mongolia
Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet
Otranto city on the southeast heel of Italy
watt (loanword)
characteristic binding
University of Twente
Charlotte Amalie, capital of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI)
Robert (name)
special functions (math.)
restaurant special
Gujarat, state in west India
Saudi
Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[chì fēng], Inner Mongolia
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia
Urat plain in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia
lute (loanword)
special correspondent
baud
Aztec
decree to grant a special pardon
Wanshan special county in Tongren prefecture 銅仁地區|铜仁地区[tóng rén dì qū], Guizhou
Amnesty International
Canterbury
special effect
ad hoc
Chinese subculture of young urban migrants, usually of low education, with exaggerated hairstyles, heavy make-up, flamboyant costumes, piercings etc (loanword from \smart\)
Geithner (name)
particular solution (to a math. equation)
Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
Patricia
diplomatic immunity
Anders Jonas Angstrom or Ångström (1814-1874), Swedish physicist
Albacete, Spain