11-letter words containing a, p, m
- takoma park — a city in central Maryland.
- tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
- taphonomist — a specialist in taphonomy
- team player — a person who willingly works in cooperation with others.
- team spirit — camaraderie, esprit de corps
- teapot dome — a federal oil reserve in Wyoming, leased to private producer Harry F. Sinclair by Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in 1922, leading to a major government scandal and the tarnishing of the reputation of President Warren G. Harding's administration (1921–23).
- temperament — the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition.
- temperately — moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc.: a temperate response to an insulting challenge.
- temperative — having a mitigating quality
- temperature — a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value. The temperature of two systems is the same when the systems are in thermal equilibrium.
- tempolabile — changing irregularly with time
- temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
- temporalize — to make temporal in time; place in time.
- temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- temptatious — enticing or illicitly desirable
- tennis camp — a camp that people go to in order to play and be taught tennis
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- thatch palm — any of several fan palms, especially of the genera Sabal, Thrinax, or Coccothrinax, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- the permian — the Permian period or rock system
- thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- timepleaser — a timeserver.
- tomato soup — soup made from tomatoes
- tomographic — relating to tomography
- tonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- totipalmate — having all four toes fully webbed.
- tramp stamp — a tattoo on a woman's lower back, just above the buttocks.
- trapeziform — formed like a trapezium.
- tripalmitin — palmitin.
- trophoplasm — the cytoplasm that is involved in the nutritive processes of a cell
- trypanosoma — trypanosome.
- trypanosome — any minute, flagellate protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma, parasitic in the blood or tissues of humans and other vertebrates, usually transmitted by insects, often causing serious diseases, as African sleeping sickness in humans, and many diseases in domestic animals.
- tulipomania — (in 17th-century Holland) a widespread obsession with tulips, especially of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.
- tympaniform — resembling or having the form of a drum or drum head
- ultrasimple — extremely or exceptionally easy
- unamplified — not amplified, magnified, or enlarged
- unattempted — not tried or undertaken
- uncompacted — not compacted
- uncompanied — unaccompanied
- uncompliant — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
- underdamper — a piano damper that is found below the hammers
- unempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- unhampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- unimpartial — not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge.
- unimpeached — (of a desirable quality or status) not challenged or questioned
- unimportant — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
- unpermeable — capable of being permeated.