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16-letter words containing s, t, o, e, p

  • tongue depressor — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
  • top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
  • topical-sentence — a sentence that expresses the essential idea of a paragraph or larger section, usually appearing at the beginning.
  • topless swimsuit — swimsuit which has no covering for the breasts
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • torsion pendulum — a pendulum the weight of which is rotated alternately in opposite directions through a horizontal plane by the torsion of the suspending rod or spring: used for clocks intended to run a long time between windings.
  • transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
  • transpeptidation — the process of transferring an amino acid or group of amino acids from one compound to another.
  • transport number — that fraction of the total electric current that anions and cations carry in passing through an electrolytic solution.
  • transport police — the national police force for railways in Britain, which protects rail operators, staff and passengers
  • trap-door spider — any of several burrowing spiders, of the family Ctenizidae, that construct a tubular nest with a hinged lid.
  • trial separation — an experimental period of living apart
  • triple-expansion — noting a power source, especially a steam engine, using the same fluid at three successive stages of expansion to do work in three or more cylinders.
  • troop the colors — to parade the colors, or flag, before troops
  • turn upside down — invert
  • two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
  • two-pot screamer — a person easily influenced by alcohol
  • two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • uncinate process — a curved, bony process on certain ribs of birds that projects backward and overlaps the succeeding rib, serving to strengthen the thorax.
  • undercompensated — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • united provinces — (used with a singular or plural verb) former name of Uttar Pradesh.
  • up to one's ears — the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
  • up to one's eyes — extremely busy (with)
  • up to one's neck — If you say that someone is in some sort of trouble or criminal activity up to their neck, you mean that they are deeply involved in it.
  • up to the elbows — deeply engaged (in work, etc.)
  • upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
  • upsilon particle — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
  • vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).
  • vest-pocket park — pocket park.
  • watch one's step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
  • well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
  • will-o'-the-wisp — ignis fatuus (def 1).
  • world exposition — world's fair.
  • writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty
  • xenotransplanted — Transplanted by xenotransplantation.
  • zenith telescope — a telescope mounted to point only at the zenith, used at some observatories for measuring time by the stars.
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