12-letter words containing l, p, a, t
- tricephalous — with three heads
- triple cream — a fresh, soft cheese of France, containing at least 72 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- triple-space — to type (copy) so as to leave two full spaces between lines
- tripolitania — Also, Tripolitania [trip-uh-li-tey-nee-uh, -teyn-yuh; Italian tree-paw-lee-tah-nyah] /ˌtrɪp ə lɪˈteɪ ni ə, -ˈteɪn yə; Italian ˌtri pɔ liˈtɑ nyɑ/ (Show IPA). one of the former Barbary States of N Africa: later a province of Turkey; now a part of Libya.
- triumphalism — triumphant spirit or character.
- triumphalist — Triumphalist behaviour is behaviour in which politicians or organizations celebrate a victory or a great success, especially when this is intended to upset the people they have defeated.
- triumphantly — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
- trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trumpet call — a blast made by a trumpet that serves as a summons or call
- trumpet-leaf — trumpets.
- trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- turbo pascal — (language, product) Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
- typicalities — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- ultracompact — extremely compact, esp of technology that is much smaller than a standard model
- ultraprecise — extremely accurate
- unacceptable — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- unacceptably — in an intolerable manner
- unalphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- uncapturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- uncomplacent — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- undisputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- unduplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- unexceptable — to exclude; leave out: present company excepted.
- unexpectable — to look forward to; regard as likely to happen; anticipate the occurrence or the coming of: I expect to read it. I expect him later. She expects that they will come.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unipotential — Electricity, Electronics. having uniform electric potential throughout, as a hot cathode (unipotential cathode) indirectly heated by a separate heater circuit so that there is no lateral change of voltage across the cathode due to resistance to a heating current.
- unit's place — unit (def 8).
- unpatentable — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- unpenetrable — capable of being penetrated.
- unpleasantry — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
- unprelatical — not befitting a prelate
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unrepeatable — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- unscriptural — not scriptural
- unspectacled — lacking spectacles
- unsplittable — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- unstipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.