9-letter words containing a, g, o
- petrolage — the addition of petrol to the surface of a body of water to get rid of mosquitoes
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phone tag — telephone tag.
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- photalgia — pain, as in an eye, that is caused by intensity of light.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- pictogram — pictograph.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plate-dog — a heavy metal plate on which plates, stereos, etc., are locked into position for printing on a rotary press.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- playgoing — the activity of attending the theatre
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- podgorica — a republic in S Europe since 2006: formerly a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, in the SW part (1918–2006); an independent kingdom 1878–1918. 6333 sq. mi. (13,812 sq. km). Capital: Podgorica.
- poignancy — the state or condition of being poignant.
- pokelogan — marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
- polygamic — polygamous.
- polygonal — a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyphagy — an insatiable appetite
- ponograph — an instrument for graphically recording pain or muscular fatigue.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
- porterage — the work of a porter or carrier.
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- potatobug — Colorado potato beetle.
- powfagged — exhausted
- poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
- progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- programed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- programer — a person who writes code for computer programs.
- programme — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- progravid — progestational (def 1).
- propagate — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- prorating — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- psychogas — a gas with a mind-altering effect
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- putonghua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- pyelogram — an x-ray produced by pyelography.
- pygmalion — Classical Mythology. a sculptor and king of Cyprus who carved an ivory statue of a maiden and fell in love with it. It was brought to life, in response to his prayer, by Aphrodite.
- pyongyang — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Pyongyang. Compare Korea.
- pyrograph — an object ornamented by pyrography.