13-letter words containing emp
- self-employed — earning one's living directly from one's own profession or business, as a freelance writer or artist, rather than as an employee earning salary or commission from another.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- semiempirical — partly empirical
- sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
- septempartite — separated into seven sections.
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
- tax exemption — immunity from paying tax
- temperamental — having or exhibiting a strongly marked, individual temperament.
- tempestuously — characterized by or subject to tempests: the tempestuous ocean.
- temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
- temporal bone — either of a pair of thick compound bones forming the part of the skull that encases the inner ear.
- temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
- temporal lobe — the lateral lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the occipital lobe.
- temporariness — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- temporization — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- to tempt fate — If someone says that something they say or do is tempting fate or is tempting providence, they mean they are worried that it may cause the good luck they have had so far to end.
- underemphasis — inadequate emphasis.
- underemployed — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- undistempered — not diseased; free from illness
- unexemplified — not exemplified; not clarified by example
- vale of tempe — a wooded valley in E Greece, in Thessaly between the mountains Olympus and Ossa
- well-tempered — (of a musical scale or instrument) conforming to the system of equal temperament