13-letter words containing t, i, p, a
- thrombophilia — a condition marked by the tendency to develop blood clots or thrombosis
- tin pan alley — the district of a city, especially New York City, where most of the popular music is published.
- tin parachute — an employment agreement guaranteeing a worker compensation, especially in the form of bonuses and benefits, in the event of dismissal as a result of a merger or takeover.
- tip one's hat — to take off, raise, or touch one's hat in salutation
- to cap it all — to provide the finishing touch
- to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
- to keep at it — If you keep at it, you continue doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
- to play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- tone painting — musical description, by harmonic, melodic, or rhythmic means, of the words of a text or the story elements in program music.
- topographical — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
- topoisomerase — any of a class of enzymes that control the coiling of DNA molecules
- topologically — the study of those properties of geometric forms that remain invariant under certain transformations, as bending or stretching.
- tortilla chip — Tortilla chips are thick crisps made from corn which are often served with dips such as salsa.
- total eclipse — an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
- total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
- totipalmation — totipalmate condition or formation.
- town planning — city planning.
- toxicophagous — poison-eating
- toxoplasmosis — infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, transmitted to humans by consumption of insufficiently cooked meat containing the parasite or by contact with contaminated cats or their feces: the illness produced is usually mild, but in pregnant women may damage the fetus.
- tracing paper — a thin, transparent paper for making tracings.
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- trade dispute — a dispute between workers and their employer
- traded option — an option that can itself be bought and sold on a stock exchange
- trading stamp — a stamp with a certain value given as a premium by a retailer to a customer, specified quantities of these stamps being exchangeable for various articles.
- train spotter — a person who collects the numbers of railway locomotives
- training camp — A training camp for soldiers or sports players is an organized period of training at a particular place.
- training ship — a ship equipped for training novices in seamanship, as for naval service.
- trainspotting — hobby: observing trains
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- transcriptase — RNA polymerase.
- transcription — the act or process of transcribing.
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- transpiration — an action or instance of transpiring.
- transposition — an act of transposing.
- transshipping — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
- treasurership — a person in charge of treasure or a treasury.
- treponemiasis — infection with treponema; syphilis.
- tricarpellary — having three carpels.
- tricorporated — having three bodies and one head
- 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-happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
- trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
- triple threat — an expert in three different fields or in three different skills in the same field.
- triple-header — a set of three games, as of basketball, each game being played in the same arena on the same day and often between different pairs of teams.
- triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
- tripolitanian — of or relating to Tripolitania (now part of Libya) or its inhabitants
- troop carrier — a transport airplane used for carrying troops and their equipment.
- tropic-cancer — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.