13-letter words containing p, o, s, i, t, n
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- temporariness — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- terminal post — A terminal post is the terminal on a battery to which the battery lead is attached.
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
- thespian lion — a lion that attacked the flocks of Amphitryon and was killed by Hercules.
- tip one's hat — to take off, raise, or touch one's hat in salutation
- torsion group — a group in which every element has finite order.
- township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
- train spotter — a person who collects the numbers of railway locomotives
- trainspotting — hobby: observing trains
- transcription — the act or process of transcribing.
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- transpiration — an action or instance of transpiring.
- transposition — an act of transposing.
- treponemiasis — infection with treponema; syphilis.
- turkish pound — the Turkish lira.
- uncomplaisant — not eager to please; not compliant or obliging
- unpretentious — not pretentious; modest; without ostentatious display; plain: his unpretentious demeanor; an unpretentious summer resort.
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- vino de pasto — a pale, dry sherry of Spain.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- watering spot — watering hole
- 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.
- whipping post — a post to which persons are tied to undergo whipping as a legal penalty.
- winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
- xiphiplastron — the fourth lateral plate of a turtle's plastron
- zinjanthropus — the genus to which Australopithecus boisei was formerly assigned.