12-letter words containing p, a, t, r, i, l
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- taper relief — (in Britain) a system of relief from capital gains tax under which the percentage of a chargeable gain considered taxable is reduced for each whole year (from April 1998) that the asset was held by the vendor
- tapsalteerie — topsy-turvy.
- tau particle — an unstable, negatively charged lepton with a mass of c. 1,777 MeV/c2 (or c. 3,490 times that of an electron) and a mean lifetime of 2.2 ×10-13 second
- temperalitie — temper
- terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
- tetrapolitan — of or related to a tetrapolis
- to play fair — If you say that someone plays fair, you mean that they behave or act in a reasonable and honest way.
- toilet paper — a soft, lightweight, sanitized paper used in bathrooms for personal cleanliness.
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- trailer camp — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
- trailer park — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
- transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- 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.
- 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
- ultraprecise — extremely accurate
- unprelatical — not befitting a prelate
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unscriptural — not scriptural
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.