9-letter words containing l, i, p, e, t
- stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- steepling — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- stepchild — a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- tailpiece — a piece added at the end; an end piece or appendage.
- tailplane — horizontal stabilizer.
- taxiplane — an airplane available for chartered or unscheduled trips.
- telepoint — a system providing a place where a cordless telephone can be connected to a telephone network
- teleprint — to print out (a message) using a teleprinter
- temps lie — a series of systematized and connected arm and leg movements done for practice.
- terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
- tide pool — tidal pool.
- tidepools — tidal pool.
- tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
- tie plate — a plate set between the base of a rail and a crosstie to distribute the rail load over a greater area of the tie and thus reduce wear and damage to it.
- time lamp — an oil lamp of the 17th and 18th centuries, burning at a fixed rate and having a reservoir graduated in units of time.
- tin plate — thin sheet of tin-coated iron, steel
- tin-plate — to coat (iron or steel sheet) with tin.
- titleship — lawful claim to title, especially of property.
- top-liner — an entertainer who is important enough to be the star of a show
- trapezial — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- trip line — (in lumbering) a line for freeing a dog hook from a log at a distance.
- tripleton — (especially in bridge) a set of three cards of the same suit in a hand as dealt.
- tripteral — (of a classical building) having a triple pteron.
- tropeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- turophile — a connoisseur or lover of cheese.
- unpiloted — without a pilot; unguided
- up-itself — pretentious or pompous
- uplighter — a lamp or wall light designed or positioned to cast its light upwards
- uptrilled — trilled high (used in Samuel Coleridge's poems)
- vulpinite — a type of granular anhydrite
- wellpoint — a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area so that it can be pumped away, as to prevent an excavation from filling with ground water.
- wild type — an organism having an appearance that is characteristic of the species in a natural breeding population.
- zelotypia — (formal) jealousy.