14-letter words containing t, e, l, p
- the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
- the maple leaf — the national flag of Canada, consisting of a representation of a maple leaf in red on a white central panel with a vertical red bar on either side
- the palaeocene — the Palaeocene epoch or rock series
- the palaeogene — the Palaeogene period or system
- the palaeozoic — the Palaeozoic era
- the palatinate — either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse
- the paranormal — paranormal happenings generally
- the platteland — (in South Africa) the country districts or rural areas
- the pole vault — a field event in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
- the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
- the unemployed — people who are out of work
- the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- theotocopoulos — Domenikos [th aw-men-ee-kaws] /ðɔˈmɛn i kɔs/ (Show IPA), El Greco.
- 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.
- thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
- 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.
- tilt-top table — a pedestal table having a top that can be tilted vertically.
- tip the scales — to exercise a decisive influence
- to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
- to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
- top-down model — (programming) A method for estimating the overall cost and effort of the proposed software project from global properties of the project. The total cost and schedule is partitioned into components for planning purposes.
- 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.
- twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
- typing element — a spherelike device, usually of molded metal, having on its surface raised letters, numerals, and other characters. When actuated by a typewriter keyboard or computer command, the device revolves quickly, striking an inked ribbon and impressing the character on paper.