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11-letter words containing t, o, p, s, e, c

  • stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
  • stockkeeper — a person responsible for inventorying and monitoring stock levels
  • stroboscope — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
  • superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
  • telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • telescopist — someone who is adept with a telescope
  • telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
  • terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
  • the tropics — that part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; the Torrid Zone
  • thermoscope — a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature
  • torpescence — the state or quality of being torpescent or torpid
  • triceratops — any of various dinosaurs of the genus Triceratops, of the late Cretaceous Period, having a bony crest on the neck, a long horn over each eye, and a shorter horn on the nose.
  • vectorscope — a waveform monitor which measures audio and video signals
  • vest pocket — the pocket of a waistcoat
  • vest-pocket — designed to be carried in the pocket of the vest, in a purse, or in a similarly small space; miniature: a vest-pocket dictionary.
  • wet compass — a compass having a compass card floating in a liquid.
  • xenoplastic — involving distantly related individuals
  • zeptosecond — one sextillionth (10 -21) of a second. Abbreviation: zsec, zs.
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