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13-letter words containing p, o, t, s

  • tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • tauromorphous — having the form of a bull
  • 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
  • tempestuously — characterized by or subject to tempests: the tempestuous ocean.
  • 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.
  • tetrapetalous — having four petals.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the oppressed — people who are subjugated by cruelty, force, etc
  • the pants off — If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot.
  • the pole star — the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
  • the potteries — a region of W central England, in Staffordshire, in which the china and earthenware industries are concentrated
  • 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 spotlight — the focus of attention
  • the-possessed — a novel (1871) by Dostoevsky.
  • the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
  • thermotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to heat.
  • thespian lion — a lion that attacked the flocks of Amphitryon and was killed by Hercules.
  • thigmotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to mechanical contact, as a plant tendril coiling around a string support.
  • thiophosphate — a salt or ester of thiophosphoric acid.
  • thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
  • thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
  • thysanopteron — thysanopteran.
  • timbrophilist — a person who loves stamps or who collects stamps
  • time exposure — a long exposure in which the shutter is opened and closed by hand or by a mechanism other than the automatic mechanism of the shutter.
  • tip one's hat — to take off, raise, or touch one's hat in salutation
  • 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 go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
  • to keep house — If you keep house, you do the cleaning and cooking for your household, and do not go out to work.
  • topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
  • topoisomerase — any of a class of enzymes that control the coiling of DNA molecules
  • torsion group — a group in which every element has finite order.
  • total eclipse — an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
  • total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
  • townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
  • 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).
  • toxicophagous — poison-eating
  • toxoplasmosis — infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, transmitted to humans by consumption of insufficiently cooked meat containing the parasite or by contact with contaminated cats or their feces: the illness produced is usually mild, but in pregnant women may damage the fetus.
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
  • train spotter — a person who collects the numbers of railway locomotives
  • trainspotting — hobby: observing trains
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