12-letter words containing t, o, l, p
- uncomplacent — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- unemployment — the state of being unemployed, especially involuntarily: Automation poses a threat of unemployment for many unskilled workers.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unipotential — Electricity, Electronics. having uniform electric potential throughout, as a hot cathode (unipotential cathode) indirectly heated by a separate heater circuit so that there is no lateral change of voltage across the cathode due to resistance to a heating current.
- unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
- unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- utility pole — one of a series of large, upright poles used to support telephone wires, electric cables, or the like.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
- voluptuosity — full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment: a voluptuous life.
- walk-on part — acting role with no spoken lines
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- well-plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- world spirit — (often initial capital letters) God.
- worlds apart — in different environments
- yachtspeople — Plural form of yachtsperson.
- zephyr cloth — a lightweight worsted cloth.
- zoophytology — the branch of zoology concerning zoophytes