12-letter words containing tem
- meristematic — consisting of or having the properties of meristem.
- merit system — a system or policy whereby people are promoted or rewarded on the basis of ability and achievement rather than because of seniority, quotas, patronage, or the like.
- metempirical — beyond or outside the field of experience.
- microsystems — Plural form of microsystem.
- misstatement — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
- multistemmed — having two or more stems or trunks
- non-itemizer — to state by items; give the particulars of; list the individual units or parts of: to itemize an account.
- non-systemic — of or relating to a system.
- out of tempo — not in tempo
- point system — Printing. a system for grading the sizes of type bodies, leads, etc., that employs the point as a unit of measurement. Compare point (def 48a).
- quota system — a system, originally determined by legislation in 1921, of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year.
- septemvirate — the ruling body of septemvirs.
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- sound system — equipment for playing music
- stem reptile — any member of the extinct order Cotylosauria, comprising heavy-bodied, splay-limbed, plant-eating reptiles that arose during the Carboniferous Period and that are considered to include the ancestors of all other reptiles.
- stem-end rot — a disease of fruits characterized by discoloration, shriveling, and decay of the stem and adjacent parts of the fruit and caused by any of several fungi of the genera Diplodia and Phomopsis.
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- subtemperate — of, relating to, or occurring in the colder parts of the Temperate Zone.
- systematical — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systemically — of or relating to a system.
- systems desk — a team of people who provide help with computer problems, for example within a company or institution
- systems disk — a disk used to store computer programs, esp the basic operating programs of a computer
- temper color — any of the colors appearing on the surface of clean, unoxidized steel heated in air, from pale yellow at the coolest to dark blue at the hottest: used as an approximate indication of temperature.
- temperalitie — temper
- tempest-tost — buffeted about, as by adversities.
- temporaneous — lasting a short while
- temptability — the state of being liable to temptation
- temptational — the act of tempting; enticement or allurement.
- tempus fugit — time flies
- touch system — a system of typing in which each finger is assigned to one or more keys, thereby enabling a person to type without looking at the keyboard.
- track system — a system whereby students are separated into different groups or classes according to test scores or relative scholastic ability, as to assure that gifted students are not inhibited by slower learners.
- truck system — the system of paying wages in goods instead of money.
- unsystematic — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- value system — moral code, ethos
- vowel system — the vowel sounds of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
- water system — a river and all its branches.