In order to significantly reduce the synthesis temperature, polytetrafluoroethylene was employed to induce the solid state synthesis of titanium carbide from elemental reactants. According to differential thermal analysis and X-ray diffraction results, titanium carbide can be synthesised successfully at the temperature as low as 825 K from Ti/C mixture with 3 wt-% polytetrafluoroethylene addition. The field emission scanning electron microscopy image showed that the size of the as-prepared titanium carbide particle was smaller than 150 nm.