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

  • tape recorder — an electrical device for recording or playing back sound, video, or data on magnetic tape.
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • 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
  • teleportation — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
  • temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
  • temporal bone — either of a pair of thick compound bones forming the part of the skull that encases the inner ear.
  • 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.
  • temporal lobe — the lateral lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the occipital lobe.
  • temporariness — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
  • temporization — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
  • 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.
  • thanatography — an account or story of a person's death experience
  • 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-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.
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermotherapy — treatment of disease by means of moist or dry heat.
  • 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.
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • thrombophilia — a condition marked by the tendency to develop blood clots or thrombosis
  • throw a party — host a celebration
  • throw a punch — try to hit sb
  • thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
  • thysanopteron — thysanopteran.
  • to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
  • topographical — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • topoisomerase — any of a class of enzymes that control the coiling of DNA molecules
  • tortilla chip — Tortilla chips are thick crisps made from corn which are often served with dips such as salsa.
  • tour operator — agent organizing package holidays
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • traded option — an option that can itself be bought and sold on a stock exchange
  • 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
  • transpersonal — extending beyond or transcending the personal.
  • transpiration — an action or instance of transpiring.
  • transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
  • transposition — an act of transposing.
  • trapezohedron — Crystallography. a crystal form having all faces trapeziums.
  • treponemiasis — infection with treponema; syphilis.
  • tricorporated — having three bodies and one head
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