14-letter words containing p, o, r, l
- terminal point — the final destination or station of a bus or rail journey
- thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
- the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
- the paranormal — paranormal happenings generally
- thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
- to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
- tortilla chips — snack food: corn crisps
- tortoise plant — elephant's-foot.
- total pressure — Total pressure is the total of static pressure p, dynamic pressure q, and gravitational head.
- traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
- traffic police — a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations
- trailing phlox — a prostrate plant, Phlox nivalis, of the southeastern U.S., having pink or white flowers.
- transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
- transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
- tripersonalist — someone who believes in the Trinity
- tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
- tripolitan war — a war (1801–05) that Tripoli declared on the United States because of American refusal to pay tribute for the safe passage of shipping in Barbary Coastal waters.
- tropical month — the period of time taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
- tropical storm — a tropical cyclone of less than hurricane force.
- tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
- trumpet flower — any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
- trust hospital — a hospital that is run by an NHS trust which competes with other trusts for government funding
- tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- ultrapatriotic — extremely patriotic
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
- under-employed — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- underdeveloped — improperly or insufficiently developed.
- underpopulated — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
- unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
- unpropitiously — in an unfavourable or inauspicious manner
- unproportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
- unprosperously — in an unprosperous or unsuccessful manner
- unreproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
- unscrupulously — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
- upton sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment