10-letter words containing l, e, t, r, p
- superexalt — to exalt further; to exalt or raise above others or above a previous position
- superlight — extremely light
- supertitle — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- telecopier — a fax machine
- telegraphy — the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.
- teleport's — a regional telecommunications network that provides access to communications satellites and other long distance media; telecommunications hub.
- telescript — A communications-oriented programming language using "active software agents", released by General Magic in 1994. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols.
- teliospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- tell apart — distinguish between
- telpherage — a transportation system in which cars or other carriers are suspended from or run on wire cables or the like, especially one operated by electricity.
- telpherman — someone who operates or works on a telpher
- temperable — a particular state of mind or feelings.
- temple bar — a former London gateway before the Temple buildings: the heads of executed traitors and criminals were exhibited on it
- temporally — of or relating to time.
- temporalty — secular things
- terneplate — steel plate coated with terne metal.
- terpolymer — a polymer consisting of three different monomers, as ABS resin.
- terreplein — the top platform or horizontal surface of a rampart where guns are mounted.
- tetraploid — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- tetrapylon — a structure having four gateways as features of an architectural composition.
- the purple — high rank; nobility
- thermopile — a device consisting of a number of thermocouples joined in series, used for generating thermoelectric current or for detecting and measuring radiant energy, as from a star.
- tocopherol — one of several alcohols that constitute the dietary factor known as vitamin E, occurring in wheat-germ oil, lettuce or spinach leaves, egg yolk, etc.
- tollkeeper — the collector at a tollgate.
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- top loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the top (distinguished from front loader).
- top-loader — a washing machine with a horizontal door in its top rather than a vertical one in its front
- trail rope — a guide rope on an aerostat.
- trampoline — a sheet, usually of canvas, attached by resilient cords or springs to a horizontal frame several feet above the floor, used by acrobats and gymnasts as a springboard in tumbling.
- travel rep — A travel rep is the same as a holiday rep.
- treponemal — any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- trickle-up — noting or pertaining to the theory that monetary benefits directed toward small businesses and the poor will gradually pass up to big business and the rich.
- triphylite — a mineral, a rare phosphate of lithium, iron, and manganese, usually occurring in masses of a bluish or greenish color.
- triple sec — a type of curaçao liqueur.
- tripletail — a large food fish, Lobotes surinamensis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, having the lobes of its dorsal and anal fins extending backward and, with the caudal fin, suggesting a three-lobed tail.
- triplicate — one of three identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- tropaeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- tropaeolum — any garden plant of the genus Tropaeolum esp the nasturtium
- trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
- trumpeldor — Joseph, 1880–1920, Zionist leader, born in Russia.
- tule perch — See under perch2 (def 3).
- tulip tree — Also called tulip poplar, yellow poplar. a tall tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, of the magnolia family, native to the eastern U.S., having large, cup-shaped, green and orange flowers: the state tree of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turkophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- typeholder — a small device for holding a few lines of type, used in stamping titles on book covers, or the like.
- underplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- underslept — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.