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11-letter words containing t, o, p, y

  • symptomless — having or showing no symptoms.
  • synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
  • syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • synoptistic — relating to the work of a synoptist
  • teenybopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
  • temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
  • temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
  • tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
  • tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
  • thallophyte — any of the Thallophyta, a plant division in some older classification schemes, comprising algae, fungi, and lichens.
  • theopneusty — divine inspiration; the influence of God's spirit enabling humans to receive a divine truth
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • thyrotropic — capable of stimulating the thyroid gland.
  • thyrotropin — an anterior pituitary hormone that regulates the activity of the thyroid gland.
  • timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
  • tolyl group — any of three univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 7 H 7 –, derived from toluene.
  • ton-up boys — youths who habitually ride or drive a vehicle at speeds of a hundred miles per hour or more
  • topsy-turvy — with the top where the bottom should be; upside down.
  • torrey pine — a rare pine tree, Pinus torreyana, having a rounded crown of branches, growing in a limited area on the southern coast of California.
  • totipotency — (of a cell or part) having the potential for developing in various specialized ways in response to external or internal stimuli.
  • treaty port — any of the ports in China, Japan, or Korea through which trade with foreign countries was permitted by special treaty.
  • trepidatory — characterized by trepidation
  • trichonymph — a flagellated protozoan of the genus Trichonympha that lives in the intestine of wood-eating termites, transforming the cellulose in the wood into soluble carbohydrates that can be utilized by the insect.
  • triphyllous — having three leaves.
  • trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
  • trophy room — a room in which a person or group keeps and displays trophies, as for bowling or golf.
  • trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
  • tropicality — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
  • tropomyosin — a protein in muscle tissue that works with troponin to control the process by which actin and myosin interact to produce muscle contraction
  • trypanocide — a drug or substance that kills trypanosomes
  • trypanosoma — trypanosome.
  • trypanosome — any minute, flagellate protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma, parasitic in the blood or tissues of humans and other vertebrates, usually transmitted by insects, often causing serious diseases, as African sleeping sickness in humans, and many diseases in domestic animals.
  • trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.
  • two a penny — Things that are said to be two a penny or ten a penny are not valuable or interesting because they are very common and easy to find.
  • tympaniform — resembling or having the form of a drum or drum head
  • typedprolog — (language)   A strongly typed logic programming language.
  • typefounder — a person who casts metallic printer's type
  • typing pool — group of secretaries
  • typographer — a person skilled or engaged in typography.
  • typographia — matter relating to printing or printers
  • typographic — of or relating to typography.
  • typological — the doctrine or study of types or prefigurative symbols, especially in scriptural literature.
  • tyroglyphid — a tick or mite of the family Tyroglyphidae
  • undo-plasty — cosmetic surgical procedures designed to reverse the results of a previous procedure or procedures
  • unstoppably — that cannot be stopped or surpassed; unbeatable: an unstoppable ball team.
  • up to putty — worthless or useless
  • uranoplasty — a surgical operation to correct a defect of the palate or roof of the mouth
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