14-letter words containing t, i, p, a
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public statute — public law (def 1).
- puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
- pugilistically — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
- punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
- put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
- pyophthalmitis — suppurative inflammation of the eye.
- pyramid letter — chain letter.
- pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- quadrantanopia — (medicine) The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.
- quadruple time — a measure consisting of four beats or pulses with accent on the first and third.
- quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
- quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
- quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
- quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
- quinquepartite — divided into or consisting of five parts.
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- quota sampling — a method of conducting market research in which the sample is selected according to a quota-system based on such factors as age, sex, social class, etc
- quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
- radio operator — a person who operates or controls a radio transmitter
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radioautograph — autoradiograph.
- radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
- radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- radiotherapist — radiologist
- radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
- rail transport — the system of taking passengers or goods from one place to another by railway
- railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
- rallying point — A rallying point is a place, event, or person that people are attracted to as a symbol of a political group or ideal.
- re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- re-exploration — an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination.
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- reappraisement — an act or the process of appraising someone or something again
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- reception area — the waiting area in a hotel near the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
- recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
- reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- repolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
- report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.