14-letter words containing p, t, i, l
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- tripelennamine — a white, crystalline, antihistamine, C 16 H 21 N 3 , used for the treatment of allergic disorders.
- tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
- tripersonalist — someone who believes in the Trinity
- tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
- triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
- triple dresser — a dresser having three drawers across for most of its height.
- triple entente — an informal understanding among Great Britain, France, and Russia based on a Franco-Russian military alliance (1894), an Anglo-French entente (1904), and an Anglo-Russian entente (1907). It was considered a counterbalance to the Triple Alliance but was terminated when the Bolsheviks came into control in Russia in 1917.
- triple glazing — three layers of glass in windows or doors
- triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
- tripolitan war — a war (1801–05) that Tripoli declared on the United States because of American refusal to pay tribute for the safe passage of shipping in Barbary Coastal waters.
- triumphal arch — a monumental archway, often erected in permanent materials as a commemorative structure, straddling the line of march of a victorious army during a triumphal procession.
- tropical month — the period of time taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
- tropical storm — a tropical cyclone of less than hurricane force.
- tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
- trust hospital — a hospital that is run by an NHS trust which competes with other trusts for government funding
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
- twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
- typing element — a spherelike device, usually of molded metal, having on its surface raised letters, numerals, and other characters. When actuated by a typewriter keyboard or computer command, the device revolves quickly, striking an inked ribbon and impressing the character on paper.
- uitzilopochtli — the Aztec god of war and of the sun.
- ultracrepidate — to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge
- ultrapatriotic — extremely patriotic
- ultrapractical — extremely practical
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- un-manipulated — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- unappetizingly — in an unappetizing manner
- unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unflappability — not easily upset or confused, especially in a crisis; imperturbable.
- unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unpalatability — the quality or state of being unpalatable
- unpleasantries — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- unpretendingly — without pretence
- unpropitiously — in an unfavourable or inauspicious manner
- unproportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
- unscripturally — in an unscriptural manner
- unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
- unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- upton sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- utility player — a player who is capable of playing competently in any of several positions
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
- vital capacity — the greatest amount of air that can be forced from the lungs after maximum inhalation.
- voltaic couple — a pair of substances, as two different metals, that when placed in a proper solution produces an electromotive force by chemical action.