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13-letter words containing p, o, r, c, e

  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • theriomorphic — (of deities) thought of or represented as having the form of beasts.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • to be precise — You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.
  • to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
  • to perfection — impeccably, perfectly
  • topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
  • trichopterist — a student of, or expert in, trichopteran insects
  • trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.
  • tricorporated — having three bodies and one head
  • trip computer — A trip computer in a vehicle gives readings of average speed, fuel consumption, and fuel cost per mile.
  • troop carrier — a transport airplane used for carrying troops and their equipment.
  • trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
  • tropic-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 year — year (def 4b).
  • tropical zone — Torrid Zone
  • tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
  • truchet point — (unit, text)   An obsolete variant of the point, equal to 0.188 mm.
  • truman capote — Truman, 1924–84, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
  • twopenceworth — an unwanted or unsolicited idea or opinion
  • uncompromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
  • uncooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • underoccupied — not having enough to do or to engage one's attention
  • unperspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
  • unpreoccupied — not preoccupied
  • unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
  • unprotectable — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • unrecompensed — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
  • unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
  • visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
  • voice over ip — (communications)   (VoIP) Any technology providing voice telephony services over IP, including CODECs, streaming protocols and session control. The major advantage of VoIP is lower cost, by avoiding dedicated voice circuits. Currently VoIP is being deployed on internal corporate networks, and, via the Internet, for low cost (and low quality) international calls. It is also used for telephony applications such as voice and fax mail. The ITU standard is H.323, which is a whole suite of protocols, while the IETF has developed the much simpler SIP to solve the session control problem and MGCP/Megaco to solve the gateway problem.
  • waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
  • waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
  • world process — change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
  • write-protect — to protect (a recordable disk) from accidental erasure or change; to mark (a file or disk) so that its contents cannot be modified or deleted.
  • xerophthalmic — Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.
  • yol computers — (company)   A company in London, UK that sells computer and network systems, established in 2001.
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