11-letter words containing p, r, e, l, i, t
- temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
- tetraplegia — quadriplegia.
- tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- timepleaser — a timeserver.
- tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
- transalpine — situated beyond the Alps, especially toward the north as viewed from Italy.
- trapezoidal — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- tree lupine — a shrubby, Californian tree, Lupinus arboreus, of the legume family, having hairy, finger-shaped leaflets and fragrant, sulphur-yellow flowers.
- tripersonal — consisting of or existing in three persons, as the Godhead.
- tripetalous — having three petals.
- triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
- triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
- triple play — a play in which three put-outs are made.
- triple time — musical time with three beats in each bar
- triplicated — replicated three times
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trisepalous — having three sepals.
- trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
- tropicalize — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- turcopolier — during the Crusades, an officer in charge of a section of turcopoles
- ultrasimple — extremely or exceptionally easy
- uniparental — having one parent, as an organism produced by parthenogenesis.
- unprintable — improper or unfit for print, especially because of obscenity or offensiveness.
- very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea
- vespertinal — of, relating to, or occurring in the evening: vespertine stillness.
- vituperable — deserving of blame
- whippletree — whiffletree.
- wrist plate — a platelike part of a mechanism, oscillating in its own plane, to which links or rods are attached by pins.
- xi particle — any of a family of baryons having strangeness −2 and isotopic spin ½. Symbol: Ξ.