11-letter words containing l, i, t, p
- 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.
- tetraplegia — quadriplegia.
- tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- the capitol — the main building of the US Congress
- the dolphin — the constellation Delphinus
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- thesis play — a play that develops or defends a particular thesis.
- thin-lipped — having mean-looking thin lips
- tickle pink — to please greatly
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
- timepleaser — a timeserver.
- tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
- toilet soap — a mild and usually perfumed soap for washing the hands and face and for bathing.
- top billing — the first or most prominent position in a list of actors or entertainers, as on a marquee or screen.
- top slicing — mining of thick orebodies in a series of stopes from top to bottom, the roof being caved with its timbers as each stope is exhausted.
- toploftical — having a superior or disdainful attitude; toplofty
- totipalmate — having all four toes fully webbed.
- toxophilite — a devotee of archery; archer.
- transalpine — situated beyond the Alps, especially toward the north as viewed from Italy.
- trapezoidal — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- tree lupine — a shrubby, Californian tree, Lupinus arboreus, of the legume family, having hairy, finger-shaped leaflets and fragrant, sulphur-yellow flowers.
- tricuspidal — having three cusps
- tripalmitin — palmitin.
- tripersonal — consisting of or existing in three persons, as the Godhead.
- tripetalous — having three petals.
- triphyllous — having three leaves.
- triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
- 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 play — a play in which three put-outs are made.
- triple time — musical time with three beats in each bar
- triplicated — replicated three times
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trisepalous — having three sepals.
- trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
- trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
- tropicality — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- tropicalize — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trothplight — engagement to be married; betrothal.
- tulip chair — an armchair designed by Eero Saarinen in 1956, having a contoured seat of molded plastic supported by a slender, stemlike pedestal of plastic-covered cast metal that terminates in a large, flat, round foot.
- tulipomania — (in 17th-century Holland) a widespread obsession with tulips, especially of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.
- turcopolier — during the Crusades, an officer in charge of a section of turcopoles
- turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
- typicalness — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- typing pool — group of secretaries
- typological — the doctrine or study of types or prefigurative symbols, especially in scriptural literature.