13-letter words containing tem
- portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- reinstatement — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- resystematize — to systematize again
- sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
- school system — state education
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- septempartite — separated into seven sections.
- sparcsystem 4 — (computer) A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
- spoils system — the system or practice in which public offices with their emoluments and advantages are at the disposal of the victorious party for its own purposes.
- stem christie — a turn made by stemming one ski and then bringing the other parallel to it during the turn.
- stem the tide — prevent sth increasing
- stereo system — a system for recording, reproducing, or broadcasting sound using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels in order to give a spatial effect to the sound
- supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
- systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
- systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
- systemization — systematize.
- t-stop system — a system of stops calibrated by T numbers.
- temerariously — in an audacious manner
- 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.
- undistempered — not diseased; free from illness
- unix system v — System V
- vale of tempe — a wooded valley in E Greece, in Thessaly between the mountains Olympus and Ossa
- weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
- well-tempered — (of a musical scale or instrument) conforming to the system of equal temperament