15-letter words containing o, t, p, r
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
- to good purpose — with a good result or effect; advantageously
- to jump for joy — If you say that someone is jumping for joy, you mean that they are very pleased or happy about something.
- to part company — If two or more people part company, they go in different directions after going in the same direction together.
- to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
- to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
- tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
- top dead center — Top dead center is the position of an engine's piston when it is at the very top of its stroke.
- top dead-centre — the position of the crank of a reciprocating engine or pump when the piston is at the top of its stroke
- topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
- transplantation — to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
- transportedness — the quality or state of being carried away with pleasure or rapture
- trapdoor spider — any of various, often large, spiders (esp. family Ctenizidae) that dig a burrow and cover the entrance with a hinged lid like a trapdoor
- treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- tropicalization — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trustee process — (in New England) garnishment (def 1).
- trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
- turgor pressure — the pressure exerted on a plant cell wall by water passing into the cell by osmosis
- turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
- turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
- two-star petrol — leaded petrol that has a low octane number; inferior leaded petrol
- typographically — of or relating to typography.
- ultra-patriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
- ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
- ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- un-presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
- unary operation — an operation in a mathematical system by which one element is used to yield a single result, as squaring or taking the square root.
- uncomplementary — forming a complement; completing.
- uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- underproduction — production that is less than normal or than is required by the demand.
- unleaded petrol — petrol containing a reduced amount of tetraethyl lead
- unopportunistic — adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.
- unpatriotically — in a manner that is not enthusiastically supporting one's country and its ways of life
- unpretentiously — without pretension
- unproportionate — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
- unprotected sex — an act of sexual intercourse or sodomy performed without the use of a condom, thus involving the risk of sexually transmitted diseases
- unprotectedness — the state of being unprotected or defenceless against attack
- unprotestantize — to make something (e.g. a church, country, etc) a religion other than Protestant
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.