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13-letter words containing t, e, p, g

  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • superstrength — great strength
  • supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
  • 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
  • tangent plane — tangent (def 4).
  • tangoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by touch.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • telephone tag — repeated unsuccessful attempts by two persons to connect with one another by telephone.
  • temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • the big apple — New York City
  • the high jump — an athletic event in which a competitor has to jump over a high bar set between two vertical supports
  • the jig is up — that ends it; all chances for success are gone
  • the paleogene — the Paleogene subdivision of the Tertiary Period or its rocks
  • the spotlight — the focus of attention
  • the-big-apple — New York City.
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
  • to keep going — If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
  • tone painting — musical description, by harmonic, melodic, or rhythmic means, of the words of a text or the story elements in program music.
  • tracing paper — a thin, transparent paper for making tracings.
  • tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
  • trigger happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
  • trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
  • trigger price — if a commodity reaches a trigger price, its price, or the conditions governing its sale are changed; a price at which certain consequences ensue
  • trigger-happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
  • triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • tripping line — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.
  • tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
  • tungsten lamp — an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.
  • turning piece — a wooden pattern for an arch built without centering.
  • uncooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • underpainting — the first coat of paint, especially the initial painting on a canvas in which the major areas, tones, colors, and forms are indicated in mass.
  • unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
  • unrepentingly — in an unrepenting or impenitent manner
  • untrespassing — not trespassing or infringing
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • uranite group — the mineralogical group including uranites and related minerals.
  • v-type engine — an engine having the cylinders aligned in two banks at an angle to each other, forming a V .
  • valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
  • vantage point — a position or place that affords a wide or advantageous perspective; viewpoint: to survey a valley from the vantage point of a high hill.
  • volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
  • water parting — a watershed or divide.
  • watering spot — watering hole
  • waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
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