12-letter words containing p, r, o, l, e, t
- super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telecomputer — teleprocessing.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- teleoperator — a robotic device controlled from a distance by a human operator: usually used to provide safety for the operator, as in working with radioactive materials
- teleprompter — A Teleprompter is a device used by people speaking on television or at a public event, which displays words for them to read.
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- temper color — any of the colors appearing on the surface of clean, unoxidized steel heated in air, from pale yellow at the coolest to dark blue at the hottest: used as an approximate indication of temperature.
- tetrapolitan — of or related to a tetrapolis
- tetrapyrrole — a chemical formed from four pyrrole rings
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
- thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
- toilet paper — a soft, lightweight, sanitized paper used in bathrooms for personal cleanliness.
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- tricephalous — with three heads
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- triple crown — an unofficial title held by a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in a single season.
- triple point — the particular temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of a given substance are all at equilibrium with one another.
- triple voile — a lightweight, sheer voile of silk or synthetic fibers constructed in plain or novelty weaves.
- trolley pole — a pole that transfers the electrical current from the overhead wire to the trolley bus
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trou-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.
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- troubleproof — not easily disturbed, disabled, injured, or put out of working order.
- trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- zephyr cloth — a lightweight worsted cloth.