9-letter words containing p, l, e, t
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- table top — A table top is the flat surface on a table.
- table-hop — to move about in a restaurant, nightclub, or the like, chatting with people at various tables.
- tailpiece — a piece added at the end; an end piece or appendage.
- tailplane — horizontal stabilizer.
- talbotype — calotype.
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- tape loop — loop1 (sense 6)
- taxiplane — an airplane available for chartered or unscheduled trips.
- tea plate — a small plate sometimes placed to the side of a dinner plate, used for bread, cake, etc
- teacupful — as much as a teacup will hold, equal to 4 fluid ounces (113 grams).
- telegraph — 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.
- telepathy — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
- telepheme — a message sent by telephone
- telephone — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
- telephony — the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.
- telephoto — noting or pertaining to telephotography.
- teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
- telepoint — a system providing a place where a cordless telephone can be connected to a telephone network
- teleprint — to print out (a message) using a teleprinter
- telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- tempelhof — a district of S West Berlin: international airport.
- temps lie — a series of systematized and connected arm and leg movements done for practice.
- tent pole — a pole which is used to hold up a tent
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
- the apple — Big Apple
- the polls — the place where people vote during an election
- three ply — three-stranded knitting wool
- three-ply — consisting of three thicknesses, laminations, strands, or the like.
- tide pool — tidal pool.
- tidepools — tidal pool.
- tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
- tie plate — a plate set between the base of a rail and a crosstie to distribute the rail load over a greater area of the tie and thus reduce wear and damage to it.
- time lamp — an oil lamp of the 17th and 18th centuries, burning at a fixed rate and having a reservoir graduated in units of time.
- tin plate — thin sheet of tin-coated iron, steel
- tin-plate — to coat (iron or steel sheet) with tin.
- titleship — lawful claim to title, especially of property.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- tooled up — an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- top shelf — of highest quality
- top-level — at a high level: a top-level conference.
- top-liner — an entertainer who is important enough to be the star of a show
- top-shell — any marine gastropod mollusc of the mainly tropical Old World family Trochidae, having a typically brightly coloured top-shaped or conical shell
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- tragelaph — a mythical animal that is a cross between a goat and a stag
- trapezial — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).