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13-letter words containing i, n, o, e, p

  • to perfection — impeccably, perfectly
  • tone painting — musical description, by harmonic, melodic, or rhythmic means, of the words of a text or the story elements in program music.
  • township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
  • traded option — an option that can itself be bought and sold on a stock exchange
  • train spotter — a person who collects the numbers of railway locomotives
  • transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
  • treponemiasis — infection with treponema; syphilis.
  • tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • tropic-cancer — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
  • tropical zone — Torrid Zone
  • truchet point — (unit, text)   An obsolete variant of the point, equal to 0.188 mm.
  • tympanic bone — (in mammals) a bone of the skull, supporting the tympanic membrane and enclosing part of the tympanum or middle ear.
  • unaccompanied — not accompanied; alone: The shipment arrived unaccompanied by an invoice.
  • unappropriate — not appropriate or suitable
  • uncompanioned — not having a companion; unaccompanied
  • uncompetitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
  • uncomplicated — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
  • uncompromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
  • uncooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • under pain of — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
  • underoccupied — not having enough to do or to engage one's attention
  • unexceptional — not exceptional; not unusual or extraordinary.
  • unimpassioned — not filled with passion or affected by strong emotion
  • unopinionated — obstinate or conceited with regard to the merit of one's own opinions; conceitedly dogmatic.
  • unpersonified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • unperspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
  • unpolarizable — not capable of being polarized
  • unpreoccupied — not preoccupied
  • unpretentious — not pretentious; modest; without ostentatious display; plain: his unpretentious demeanor; an unpretentious summer resort.
  • unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
  • unprogressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • unprovisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • unresponsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
  • uranite group — the mineralogical group including uranites and related minerals.
  • vaccine point — a thin, pointed, vaccine-coated piece of bone or the like, for use in vaccinating.
  • vantage point — a position or place that affords a wide or advantageous perspective; viewpoint: to survey a valley from the vantage point of a high hill.
  • vapor tension — vapor pressure.
  • vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
  • vicente lopez — a city in E central Argentina, N of Buenos Aires.
  • vino de pasto — a pale, dry sherry of Spain.
  • vinyl polymer — any of a group of compounds derived by polymerization from vinyl compounds, as vinyl acetate and styrene.
  • violin spider — brown recluse spider.
  • volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
  • walter pistonWalter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • watering spot — watering hole
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