10-letter words containing t, a, p, l
- unpunctual — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- untappable — to strike with a light but audible blow or blows; hit with repeated, slight blows: He tapped the door twice.
- untrampled — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- uplift bra — a brassiere for lifting and supporting the breasts
- vapulation — the act of beating or whipping
- voltampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- voluptuary — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.
- w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
- waitpeople — Plural form of waitperson.
- wall plate — Also called raising plate. Building Trades. a horizontal member built into or laid along the top of a wall to support and distribute the pressure from joists, rafters, etc.
- wallposter — (in China) a usually lengthy notice, complaint, personal opinion, etc., handwritten in large characters and hung on walls in cities, as a means of communication and for criticizing or attacking government policy or politicians.
- water pill — a diuretic pill.
- water plug — a fireplug; hydrant.
- water polo — an aquatic game played by two teams of seven swimmers each, the object being to score goals by pushing, carrying, or passing an inflated ball and tossing it into the opponent's goal, defended by a goalkeeper.
- wentletrap — any of several marine gastropods of the family Epitonii (Scalariidae), having a whitish, spiraled shell.
- westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wheat pool — (in Western Canada) a cereal farmers' cooperative
- whip-stall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whipstalls — Plural form of whipstall.
- whiptailed — having a long slender tail
- wind plant — a grouping of devices, consisting of a tower, propellers, alternator, generator, and storage batteries, designed to produce electricity by converting the mechanical force of wind on blades or a rotor into electricity.
- z particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.
- zone plate — a plate or screen with alternating opaque and transparent concentric rings that focus light by diffraction.
- zooplastic — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.