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13-letter words containing t, a, l, p

  • superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • superelevated — (of a curve in a road, railroad track, etc.) banked.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
  • superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
  • supermilitant — highly militant
  • supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
  • superparticle — (in supersymmetry theory) a theoretical particle that is a partner to an observed particle, having the same mass but a different spin
  • superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • supplantation — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
  • suppositional — the act of supposing.
  • supralittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of a shore of a lake, sea, or ocean permanently above water but made damp by spray from waves or by capillarity of the substrate.
  • supranational — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • suprarational — not understandable by reason alone; beyond rational comprehension.
  • supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • synophthalmia — cyclopia.
  • syphilization — the act of syphilizing
  • table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
  • tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
  • tachyphylaxis — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
  • tangent plane — tangent (def 4).
  • tap loop jump — a jump in which the skater takes off from the back outer edge of one skate, makes one full rotation in the air, and lands on the back outer edge of the same skate.
  • tapioca-plant — the cassava, Manihot esculenta.
  • tapsal-teerie — topsy-turvy.
  • tattie-peelin — (esp of speech) highfalutin, affected, or pretentious
  • tax duplicate — the certification of real-estate assessments to the taxing authorities
  • technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
  • telencephalic — the anterior section of the forebrain comprising the cerebrum and related structures.
  • telencephalon — the anterior section of the forebrain comprising the cerebrum and related structures.
  • telephone tag — repeated unsuccessful attempts by two persons to connect with one another by telephone.
  • teleportation — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
  • temperamental — having or exhibiting a strongly marked, individual temperament.
  • 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.
  • tennis player — sportsperson who plays tennis
  • terephthalate — a salt or ester of terephthalic acid.
  • terminal post — A terminal post is the terminal on a battery to which the battery lead is attached.
  • tetrapetalous — having four petals.
  • the big apple — New York City
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
  • the hyperreal — that which constitutes hyperreality
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