14-letter words containing e, l, i, p
- the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
- the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
- the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
- three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
- ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
- tilt-top table — a pedestal table having a top that can be tilted vertically.
- tip the scales — to exercise a decisive influence
- tortoise plant — elephant's-foot.
- traffic police — a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations
- training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
- transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
- trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- tripelennamine — a white, crystalline, antihistamine, C 16 H 21 N 3 , used for the treatment of allergic disorders.
- tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
- tripersonalist — someone who believes in the Trinity
- tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
- triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
- triple dresser — a dresser having three drawers across for most of its height.
- triple entente — an informal understanding among Great Britain, France, and Russia based on a Franco-Russian military alliance (1894), an Anglo-French entente (1904), and an Anglo-Russian entente (1907). It was considered a counterbalance to the Triple Alliance but was terminated when the Bolsheviks came into control in Russia in 1917.
- triple glazing — three layers of glass in windows or doors
- triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
- typing element — a spherelike device, usually of molded metal, having on its surface raised letters, numerals, and other characters. When actuated by a typewriter keyboard or computer command, the device revolves quickly, striking an inked ribbon and impressing the character on paper.
- ultracrepidate — to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- un-manipulated — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unappetizingly — in an unappetizing manner
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- unpleasantries — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- unpretendingly — without pretence
- unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
- unreproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
- unsaponifiable — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- unspecifically — having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.