11-letter words containing t, i, p, l
- perithelium — the connective tissue surrounding certain small vessels, as capillaries.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- permittedly — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- pestologist — a person who analyses and researches pests and how to get rid of them
- petalomania — the condition in which a flower has proportionately more petals than is normal
- petri plate — a petri dish containing culture medium
- phallotoxin — any of a group of potent mycotoxins produced by certain mushroom species of the genus Amanita.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- philatelist — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- philistines — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- phillipsite — a zeolite mineral, similar to stilbite but with potassium replacing some of the calcium.
- philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
- philologist — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- philomathic — relating to or enjoying the process of learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- photophilic — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
- phyllotaxis — phyllotaxy.
- physicalist — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicality — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiolatry — the worship of nature
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- piacularity — the state of being piacular
- piano stool — adjustable stool used by pianist
- picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
- pictorially — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pierre loti — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (Louis Marie Julien Viaud) 1850–1923, French novelist.
- pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
- pill beetle — a very common beetle, Byrrhus pilula, typical of the family Byrrhidae, that can feign death by withdrawing legs and antennae into grooves underneath the oval body
- pill bottle — a small bottle that pills are kept in
- pillow talk — private conversation, endearments, or confidences exchanged in bed or in intimate circumstances between spouses or lovers.
- pilot chart — any of a number of charts issued to mariners by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and showing meteorological, hydrographic, and navigational conditions prevailing, or likely to prevail, subsequent to the date of issue in some part of the world: issued monthly for most areas.
- pilot cloth — a type of thick blue cloth used esp to make sailor's coats
- pilot error — (jargon) (Sun, from aviation) A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently bug-like results. E.g. "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, that's pilot error. His "sendmail.cf" is hosed." Compare UBD.
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pilot light — Also called pilot, pilot burner. a small flame kept burning continuously, as in a gas stove or furnace, to relight the main gas burners whenever necessary or desired.
- pilot plant — an experimental industrial plant in which processes or techniques planned for use in full-scale operation are tested in advance.
- pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
- pilot study — trial done for research
- pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
- pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
- pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.