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14-letter words containing e, p, s, t, i

  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • surprise party — a party or celebration planned for someone as a surprise.
  • susceptibility — state or character of being susceptible: susceptibility to disease.
  • susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
  • susceptible to — liable to
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • symmetric lisp — A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan <[email protected]>.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
  • synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • the apple isle — Tasmania
  • the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the hispanidad — the common values and cultural attitudes shared between and linking Spain and the other Spanish-speaking countries of the world
  • the opposition — a political party or group opposed to the ruling party or government
  • 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.
  • theriomorphism — the identification of animal characteristics with a supernatural being
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • think positive — be optimistic
  • ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
  • tip one's hand — the act of tipping.
  • tip the scales — to exercise a decisive influence
  • topic sentence — a sentence that expresses the essential idea of a paragraph or larger section, usually appearing at the beginning.
  • tortoise plant — elephant's-foot.
  • transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
  • transparencies — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
  • transparentize — to make transparent
  • trapeze artist — a person who performs, especially professionally, on a trapeze.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • treponematosis — an infection caused by an organism of the genus Treponema, as syphilis, pinta, bejel, or yaws.
  • 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.
  • triple dresser — a dresser having three drawers across for most of its height.
  • triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
  • trophoneurosis — a disorder caused by defective functioning of the trophic nerves
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • understrapping — subordinate or inferior
  • unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
  • unit separator — (character)   (US) ASCII character 31.
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • unpleasantries — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
  • unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
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