14-letter words containing top
- stop the clock — an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
- stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
- stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
- stopping power — a measure of the effect a substance has on the kinetic energy of a particle passing through it
- stopping train — a train that stops at local stations as well as the main ones
- the top thirty — the thirty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
- the top twenty — the twenty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
- tilt-top table — a pedestal table having a top that can be tilted vertically.
- top management — highest level of business leadership
- top-down model — (programming) A method for estimating the overall cost and effort of the proposed software project from global properties of the project. The total cost and schedule is partitioned into components for planning purposes.
- top-hat scheme — a pension scheme for the senior executives of an organization
- topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
- topic sentence — a sentence that expresses the essential idea of a paragraph or larger section, usually appearing at the beginning.
- topicalization — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
- topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.