11-letter words containing p, e, a, r, t
- strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
- strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
- straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
- stratopause — the boundary or transition layer between the stratosphere and mesosphere.
- streetscape — a pictorial view of a street.
- strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
- stripteaser — stripper (def 3).
- stroke play — medal play.
- super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superfatted — (of soap) containing excess fat that has not been converted into soap by saponification
- superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
- superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
- supernatant — floating above or on the surface.
- supernation — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- supernature — the supernatural
- superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
- supersafety — the state of being supersafe
- supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
- supportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- suppressant — a substance that suppresses an undesirable action or condition: an appetite suppressant.
- suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
- suprematism — a nonrepresentational style of art developed in Russia in the early 20th century, characterized by severely simple geometric shapes or forms and an extremely limited palette.
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- taboparesis — the occurrence of two conditions (general paresis and tabes dorsalis) at the same time
- tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
- tape player — a small device for playing magnetic tape recordings.
- tape-record — to record (speech, music, etc.) on magnetic tape.
- teachership — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
- team player — a person who willingly works in cooperation with others.
- team spirit — camaraderie, esprit de corps
- telanaipura — former name of Jambi (def 2).
- telegraphed — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
- teletherapy — treatment in which the source of therapy is some distance from the body, as certain radiation therapies.
- temperament — the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition.
- temperately — moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc.: a temperate response to an insulting challenge.
- temperative — having a mitigating quality
- temperature — a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value. The temperature of two systems is the same when the systems are in thermal equilibrium.
- temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
- temporalize — to make temporal in time; place in time.
- temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
- tepary bean — a twining or bushy plant, Phaseolus acutifolius latifolius, of the legume family, native to Mexico and Arizona, having white or violet-colored flowers, grown as a food plant in dry regions.