15-letter words containing n, e, p, t
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- superexcitation — the act of exciting.
- supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
- supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
- supernaturalist — supernatural character or agency.
- supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
- supernaturalize — to make supernatural; give supernatural character or qualities to.
- superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
- supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
- take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
- take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
- tax expenditure — any reduction in government revenue through preferential tax treatment, as deductions or credits.
- telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
- telephone booth — a more or less soundproof booth containing a public telephone.
- telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
- temperamentally — having or exhibiting a strongly marked, individual temperament.
- ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
- teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
- the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
- the peloponnese — the S peninsula of Greece, joined to central Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth: chief cities in ancient times were Sparta and Corinth, now Patras. Pop: 503 300 (2001). Area: 21 439 sq km (8361 sq miles)
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
- the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
- the precambrian — the Precambrian era
- the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
- the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
- the upper rhine — the section of the Rhine between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany
- theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
- thermal printer — a printer that produces output by selectively heating a heat-sensitive paper (thermal paper) in patterns corresponding to the characters to be produced.
- thickness piece — a narrow flat or board used in scenic construction to give the illusion of depth or solidity to a door, wall, window, or the like.
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- three-line whip — A three-line whip is a situation where the MPs in a political party are ordered to attend parliament and vote in a particular way on a particular issue.