12-letter words containing t, r, o, p, a
- interpolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpolate.
- interpolator — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intracompany — occurring within a company, especially between employees or branches of the company.
- iontotherapy — (medicine) The therapeutic use of iontophoresis.
- irish potato — potato (def 1).
- joking apart — seriously: said to recall a discussion to seriousness after there has been joking
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- katamorphism — metamorphism at or near the earth's surface: breaks down complex minerals into simpler ones.
- keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
- lahore party — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
- laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
- laparotomize — to perform a laparotomy on.
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- lipoproteina — a plasma lipoprotein containing protein and cholesterol, high levels of which are associated with atherosclerosis.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
- lithographic — Of, relating to, or produced by lithography.
- liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
- locarno pact — a series of treaties, concluded in Locarno, Switzerland in 1925, between Germany, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The principal treaty, between Germany, France, and Belgium, concerned the maintenance of their existing frontiers, settlement of disputes by arbitration without resort to force, and the demilitarization of the Rhineland. This treaty was guaranteed by the United Kingdom and Italy but was violated when Germany occupied the Rhineland in 1936
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
- loop reactor — A loop reactor is a reactor in which the material is pumped round one or more vessels or stages in a continuous process.
- lophophorate — Of or relating to small aquatic invertebrates belonging to a group of phyla characterized by the possession of lophophores. They include bryozoans, brachiopods, and phoronids.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
- magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
- major planet — planet (def 1a).
- major-planet — Astronomy. Also called major planet. any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, in the order of their proximity to the sun. Until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet ninth in order from the sun; it has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun. (formerly) a celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star, applied also to the sun and moon.
- malapportion — to apportion improperly or unfairly (voting districts, a legislature, etc.)
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- mapplethorpe — Robert, 1946–89, U.S. photographer.
- massotherapy — treatment by massage.
- master point — a point awarded to a bridge player who has won or placed in an officially recognized tournament.
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melanotropin — MSH.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
- metacomputer — an interconnected and balanced set of computers that operate as a single unit