13-letter words containing t, y, p, e
- striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- sunray pleats — bias-cut knife pleats that are narrower at the top than at the bottom, producing a flared effect, used esp for skirts
- sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
- super tuesday — the Tuesday, typically in March, on which party members in over 20 states vote in primary elections to select their party's presidential candidate
- super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
- superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
- supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
- supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- supersubtlety — the quality of being extremely subtle
- supersymmetry — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
- sympiesometer — a barometer using a gas, rather than a vacuum, to measure pressure
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- t-stop system — a system of stops calibrated by T numbers.
- take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
- tapestry moth — carpet moth.
- tempestuously — characterized by or subject to tempests: the tempestuous ocean.
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- tennis player — sportsperson who plays tennis
- the heptarchy — the supposed confederacy of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
- the hyperreal — that which constitutes hyperreality
- the ryder cup — the trophy awarded in a professional golfing competition between teams representing Europe and the US
- thermotherapy — treatment of disease by means of moist or dry heat.
- thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
- thysanopteron — thysanopteran.
- tin pan alley — the district of a city, especially New York City, where most of the popular music is published.
- tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- token payment — a small payment binding an agreement or acknowledging a debt.
- tompot blenny — a variety of blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), with tentacles over its eyes
- topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
- tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
- transparently — having the property of transmitting rays of light through its substance so that bodies situated beyond or behind can be distinctly seen.
- transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
- tricarpellary — having three carpels.
- trigger happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
- trigger-happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
- triple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of trisyllabic feet.
- tropical year — year (def 4b).
- turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
- tympanic bone — (in mammals) a bone of the skull, supporting the tympanic membrane and enclosing part of the tympanum or middle ear.
- type ii error — the error made in the statistical testing of a hypothesis by accepting the null hypothesis when it is actually false.
- type locality — Biology. the locality in which a type specimen was collected.