15-letter words containing t, i, p
- tax expenditure — any reduction in government revenue through preferential tax treatment, as deductions or credits.
- telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
- telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
- ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
- teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
- thalassographic — relating to thalassography
- the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
- the grim reaper — death
- the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
- the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
- the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
- the precambrian — the Precambrian era
- the prime mover — God, esp when considered as a first cause
- the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
- the proterozoic — the Proterozoic Eon or its rocks
- the public weal — the public good; the good of society
- the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
- the upper rhine — the section of the Rhine between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany
- therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
- thermal printer — a printer that produces output by selectively heating a heat-sensitive paper (thermal paper) in patterns corresponding to the characters to be produced.
- thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
- thickness piece — a narrow flat or board used in scenic construction to give the illusion of depth or solidity to a door, wall, window, or the like.
- thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
- three-line whip — A three-line whip is a situation where the MPs in a political party are ordered to attend parliament and vote in a particular way on a particular issue.
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
- tibetan spaniel — one of a breed of small alert dogs originally developed in Tibet, with a double coat of any color, well-feathered, pendent ears, and a plumed tail curled over the back.
- tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- to get mixed up — if you get mixed up, you get confused about something
- to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
- to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
- top-of-the-line — being the best and usually the most expensive of its kind: The company previewed its top-of-the-line carpeting.
- topgallant sail — a sail or either of two sails set on the yard or yards of a topgallant mast.
- topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- toxic psychosis — a psychosis resulting from the toxic effect of chemicals, drugs, or certain intrinsic metabolic states.
- trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- traffic pattern — Aeronautics. a system of courses about an airfield that aircraft are assigned to fly when taking off, landing, or preparing to land.
- trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
- transplantation — to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.