11-letter words containing a, g, o, r, p
- piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
- pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
- pignoration — the act or process of pledging or pawning
- planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
- polarograph — a device for analysing ions in solution by using an electrolytic cell with a very small cathode
- poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
- polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
- pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- port orange — a city in E Florida.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- prairie dog — any of several burrowing rodents of the genus Cynomys, of North American prairies, having a barklike cry: some are endangered.
- pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
- preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- prodigalize — to spend lavishly
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- programable — capable of being programmed.
- programming — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- prolegomena — a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.
- prolongable — able to be lengthened
- prolongated — to prolong.
- promenading — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- promulgator — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- propagation — the act of propagating.
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- propagatory — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prorogation — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
- prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protogalaxy — the large concentration of gas and dust from which a galaxy is formed.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.