14-letter words containing r, e, p, l
- telegraph pole — A telegraph pole is a tall wooden pole with telephone wires attached to it, connecting several different buildings to the telephone system.
- telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
- telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
- telephotograph — a photograph taken with a telephoto lens.
- telephotometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of light emanating from a distant object.
- teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
- teletypesetter — a keyboard device whose output can either be punched tape, which can be used directly to operate a line-casting machine, or be transmitted by cable or wire to operate such a machine indirectly
- teletypewriter — a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck. Abbreviation: TTY.
- telex operator — a person who sends messages by telex
- temperamentful — full of temperament
- temple terrace — a town in W Florida.
- terminal point — the final destination or station of a bus or rail journey
- the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
- the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
- the paranormal — paranormal happenings generally
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- three-act play — a dramatic production such as play or film which is divided into three acts or sections
- three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
- ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
- to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
- tortoise plant — elephant's-foot.
- total pressure — Total pressure is the total of static pressure p, dynamic pressure q, and gravitational head.
- traffic police — a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations
- training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
- transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
- transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
- transplacental — across or passing through the placenta.
- transplanetary — farther from the sun than a given planet.
- trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
- 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.
- trumpet flower — any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
- trumpet player — a person who plays the trumpet
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- ultracrepidate — to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
- un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.