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16-letter words containing p, i, o, t

  • topless swimsuit — swimsuit which has no covering for the breasts
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • torsion pendulum — a pendulum the weight of which is rotated alternately in opposite directions through a horizontal plane by the torsion of the suspending rod or spring: used for clocks intended to run a long time between windings.
  • transition point — Physics. a temperature at which a substance undergoes some abrupt change in its properties, as when it passes from the normal to the superconducting state.
  • transpeptidation — the process of transferring an amino acid or group of amino acids from one compound to another.
  • transport police — the national police force for railways in Britain, which protects rail operators, staff and passengers
  • trap-door spider — any of several burrowing spiders, of the family Ctenizidae, that construct a tubular nest with a hinged lid.
  • trapezoidal rule — a numerical method for evaluating the area between a curve and an axis by approximating the area with the areas of trapezoids.
  • trial separation — an experimental period of living apart
  • trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
  • tridarn cupboard — a Welsh cupboard of the late 17th and 18th centuries, with an open, canopied upper section for display.
  • triple-expansion — noting a power source, especially a steam engine, using the same fluid at three successive stages of expansion to do work in three or more cylinders.
  • tropic of cancer — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
  • tropical cyclone — a cyclone that originates over a tropical ocean area and can develop into the destructive storm known in the U.S. as a hurricane, in the western Pacific region as a typhoon, and elsewhere by other names. Compare extratropical cyclone, hurricane (def 1), willy-willy.
  • trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
  • turn upside down — invert
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
  • typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
  • ultramicroscopic — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • unapologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • uncinate process — a curved, bony process on certain ribs of birds that projects backward and overlaps the succeeding rib, serving to strengthen the thorax.
  • underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • united provinces — (used with a singular or plural verb) former name of Uttar Pradesh.
  • unproportionally — having due proportion; corresponding.
  • up-to-the-minute — extending to the present moment, as information, facts, or style: an up-to-the-minute news report.
  • upsilon particle — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
  • vapor combustion — Vapor combustion is a closed burn system used for treating liquid waste which contains volatile organic compounds.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • vitruvius pollio — Marcus, flourished 1st century b.c, Roman architect, engineer, and author.
  • voice production — the use of the voice in order to create particular effects
  • walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • will-o'-the-wisp — ignis fatuus (def 1).
  • willow ptarmigan — a ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus, of arctic and subarctic regions of the New and Old Worlds, having brown, mottled plumage in summer and white plumage in winter.
  • wimp environment — WIMP
  • windfall profits — Windfall profits are excessive profits with a non-business cause such as a natural disaster.
  • wipe off the map — to put out of existence
  • world exposition — world's fair.
  • writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty
  • yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them
  • zenith telescope — a telescope mounted to point only at the zenith, used at some observatories for measuring time by the stars.
  • zero-zero option — (in international nuclear arms negotiations) an offer to remove all intermediate-range nuclear missiles, if the other side will do the same
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