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13-letter words containing p, o, t, u, r

  • supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
  • supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
  • supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
  • superordinate — of higher degree in condition or rank.
  • superposition — the order in which sedimentary strata are superposed one above another.
  • superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • superstitious — of the nature of, characterized by, or proceeding from superstition: superstitious fears.
  • supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
  • support group — a group of people who meet regularly to support or sustain each other by discussing problems affecting them in common, as alcoholism or bereavement.
  • support level — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
  • support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
  • supralittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of a shore of a lake, sea, or ocean permanently above water but made damp by spray from waves or by capillarity of the substrate.
  • supranational — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • suprarational — not understandable by reason alone; beyond rational comprehension.
  • supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
  • supreme court — the highest court of the U.S.
  • surplus store — a shop that sells used items, or items previously purchased but unused, and no longer needed. The items are often military, government or industrial excess
  • surreptitious — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tauromorphous — having the form of a bull
  • temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
  • tetrapetalous — having four petals.
  • thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • throw a punch — try to hit sb
  • 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.
  • torsion group — a group in which every element has finite order.
  • tour operator — agent organizing package holidays
  • trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
  • tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
  • trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.
  • trip computer — A trip computer in a vehicle gives readings of average speed, fuel consumption, and fuel cost per mile.
  • triple double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • triple-double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • trous-de-loup — a conical or pyramidal pit with a pointed stake fixed vertically in the center, rows of which are dug in front of a fortification to hinder an enemy's approach, formerly used chiefly against cavalry.
  • trouser press — an electrical appliance that is used for taking the creases out of trousers
  • 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.
  • trust company — a company or corporation organized to exercise the functions of a trustee, but usually engaging also in other banking and financial activities.
  • turkish pound — the Turkish lira.
  • turn of speed — If a person, animal, or vehicle has a good turn of speed, they have the ability to move fast.
  • turning point — a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
  • ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
  • ultratropical — outside the tropics.
  • unappropriate — not appropriate or suitable
  • uncooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
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