11-letter words containing t, e, m, p, r
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatozoa — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- spider mite — any of numerous, variously colored web-spinning mites of the family Tetranychidae, many of which are pests of garden plants and fruit trees.
- spinmeister — spin doctor.
- spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
- spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
- stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
- stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- supersystem — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
- supportment — the action of supporting
- supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
- suprematism — a nonrepresentational style of art developed in Russia in the early 20th century, characterized by severely simple geometric shapes or forms and an extremely limited palette.
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
- tcp theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- team player — a person who willingly works in cooperation with others.
- team spirit — camaraderie, esprit de corps
- temperament — the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition.
- temperately — moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc.: a temperate response to an insulting challenge.
- temperative — having a mitigating quality
- temperature — a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value. The temperature of two systems is the same when the systems are in thermal equilibrium.
- temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
- temporalize — to make temporal in time; place in time.
- temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- the permian — the Permian period or rock system
- the tempter — Satan regarded as trying to lead men into sin
- theomorphic — having the form or likeness of God or a deity.
- thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- thermophone — an electroacoustic transducer that forms sound waves by the expansion and contraction of the air adjacent to a conductor that varies in temperature according to the magnitude of the current passing through it; formerly used to calibrate microphones.
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- thermoscope — a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature
- time-keeper — a person or thing that keeps time.
- timepleaser — a timeserver.
- trapeziform — formed like a trapezium.
- triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
- triple time — musical time with three beats in each bar