Usually means: Archaeological mound of layered settlements.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. tel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tel, tel-: Merriam-Webster
  3. tel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tel, tel-, tel-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tel-, tel-: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Tel, tel: Wordnik
  7. tel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. TEL, Tel, tel: Wiktionary
  9. tel, tel-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tel, tel-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tel-: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. TEL, tel, tel-: Dictionary.com
  13. TEL, Tel, .tel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. tel, tel-: MyWord.info
  15. TEL, Tel, tel: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. tel, tel, tel-: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tel-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TEL, .tel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tel(o)-, tel-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TEL: Acronym Finder
  2. TEL: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (automotive, aviation, organic chemistry) tetraethyllead (or tetraethyl lead, tetra-ethyl lead); a gasoline additive to boost octane rating
noun:  A label for telephone number.
noun:  Abbreviation of telephone number. [The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.]
noun:  Abbreviation of telegraph. [(uncommon) Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.]
noun:  Abbreviation of telegram. [A message transmitted by telegraph.]
noun:  Alternative form of tell (“hill or mound”) [A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.]
noun:  (astronautics, military) Initialism of transporter erector launcher.

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