11-letter words containing e, m, p, l
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superphylum — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp maple — red maple.
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- symptomless — having or showing no symptoms.
- team player — a person who willingly works in cooperation with others.
- telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
- temperately — moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc.: a temperate response to an insulting challenge.
- temple city — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- 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.
- term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- 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.
- timepleaser — a timeserver.
- totipalmate — having all four toes fully webbed.
- triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
- triple time — musical time with three beats in each bar
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trumpet leg — a turned leg that flares upward and outward from a narrow lower end.
- ultrasimple — extremely or exceptionally easy
- unamplified — not amplified, magnified, or enlarged
- uncompelled — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
- uncompleted — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- unempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- unimpededly — in an unimpeded manner
- unimpulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- unpermeable — capable of being permeated.
- volt-ampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.
- wobble pump — an auxiliary hand pump for supplying fuel to the carburetor of an aircraft engine when the automatic pumping mechanism fails.
- y2k problem — the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s: this inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits