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13-letter words containing l, i, t, p

  • total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
  • totipalmation — totipalmate condition or formation.
  • town planning — city planning.
  • 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).
  • toxoplasmosis — infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, transmitted to humans by consumption of insufficiently cooked meat containing the parasite or by contact with contaminated cats or their feces: the illness produced is usually mild, but in pregnant women may damage the fetus.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
  • tricarpellary — having three carpels.
  • trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
  • triple double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
  • triple jumper — a person who takes part in the triple jump
  • triple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of trisyllabic feet.
  • triple threat — an expert in three different fields or in three different skills in the same field.
  • triple-decker — three-decker (defs 3, 4).
  • triple-double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • triple-header — a set of three games, as of basketball, each game being played in the same arena on the same day and often between different pairs of teams.
  • triple-nerved — noting a leaf in which two prominent nerves emerge from the middle nerve a little above its base.
  • 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.
  • triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
  • tripolitanian — of or relating to Tripolitania (now part of Libya) or its inhabitants
  • tripping line — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.
  • trompe l'oeil — visual deception, especially in paintings, in which objects are rendered in extremely fine detail emphasizing the illusion of tactile and spatial qualities.
  • trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
  • tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
  • tropical year — year (def 4b).
  • tropical zone — Torrid Zone
  • tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
  • type locality — Biology. the locality in which a type specimen was collected.
  • typographical — of or relating to typography.
  • typologically — the doctrine or study of types or prefigurative symbols, especially in scriptural literature.
  • tyrian purple — Also called Tyrian dye. a highly prized crimson or purple dye of classical antiquity, originally obtained at great expense from a certain shellfish: later shown to be an indigo derivative and synthetically produced, and now replaced by other synthetic dyes.
  • ultraphysical — extremely physical
  • ultratropical — outside the tropics.
  • uncapitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • uncomplaisant — not eager to please; not compliant or obliging
  • uncomplicated — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
  • unexceptional — not exceptional; not unusual or extraordinary.
  • unicorn plant — a North American plant, Proboscidea (Martynia) louisianica, having creamy-white to red flowers blotched with purple, and a woody capsule with a long, curved beak.
  • uniparentally — in a uniparental manner
  • unmanipulated — not manipulated
  • unperceptible — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
  • unpitifulness — a lack or absence of pity
  • unplasticized — not made plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
  • unpracticable — impracticable.
  • unpredictable — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
  • unpunctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
  • unrepentingly — in an unrepenting or impenitent manner
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