20-letter words containing r, a, m, p, t
- semiautobiographical — pertaining to or being a fictionalized account of an author's own life.
- south american plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the continent of South America and several ocean basins and bounded on the north by the Caribbean Plate, on the east by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the west by a submarine trench that borders the western coast of the continent, and on the south by the Antarctic Plate.
- south temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
- splice the mainbrace — to issue and partake of an extra allocation of alcoholic spirits
- st.-germain-des-pres — an area in Paris, on the Left Bank.
- supplementary angles — either of two angles that added together produce an angle of 180°.
- telesales department — the department of a company that deals with telesales
- television programme — a programme broadcast on television
- temperature gradient — rate of change of temperature with distance.
- the (great) pyramids — the three large pyramids at Gîza, Egypt: the largest is the Pyramid of Khufu
- the hearing impaired — people whose hearing is partially defective
- to make up your mind — If you make up your mind or make your mind up, you decide which of a number of possible things you will have or do.
- to overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
- toxemia of pregnancy — an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, edema, and the presence of protein in the urine.
- transformation point — a temperature at which the transformation of one microconstituent to another begins or ends during heating or cooling.
- triphenylmethane dye — any of a great number of dyes, as gentian violet, fuchsin, and rosaniline, produced from triphenylmethane by replacement of the ring hydrogen atoms with hydroxy, amino, sulfo, or other atoms or groups.
- trumpet call for sth — a signal for something
- upmail tricia prolog — ftp://ftp.csd.uu.se/pub/Tricia/README. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- upper income bracket — a grouping of the highest earning tax payers
- upper yosemite falls — a section of Yosemite Falls in central California, in the Yosemite National Park that is 436 m (1430 ft) high
- vertical envelopment — envelopment of an enemy accomplished by parachuting and landing airborne troops at the rear of the enemy's position.
- western roman empire — the westernmost of the two empires created by the division of the later Roman Empire, esp after its final severance from the Eastern Roman Empire (395 ad)
- wet-bulb temperature — The wet-bulb temperature is the temperature reached by a small amount of liquid evaporating in a large amount of an unsaturated air-vapor mixture.
- winter olympic games — an international contest of winter sports, esp skiing, held every four years