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11-letter words containing a, g, p, e, t

  • kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
  • large print — text printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • large-print — set in a type size larger than normal for the benefit of persons with impaired vision: large-print newspapers.
  • last gospel — in the order of service for the Mass, the final reading of a Gospel lesson.
  • light opera — operetta.
  • lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
  • logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
  • magpie moth — a geometrid moth, Abraxas grossulariata, showing variable patterning in black on white or yellow, whose looper larvae attack currant and gooseberry bushes. The paler clouded magpie is A. sylvata
  • meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
  • megaphonist — Someone who uses a megaphone.
  • megapolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
  • megaproject — A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
  • metaprogram — A program which modifies or generates other programs. A compiler is an example of a metaprogram: it takes a program as input and produces another (compiled) one as output.
  • nonpathogen — An organism that is not a pathogen.
  • nonpregnant — Not pregnant.
  • open dating — the practice of putting a freshness date on food packages.
  • opening act — the first act at a concert, etc, esp before a main act
  • oppignorate — to promise or give as security
  • osteography — The scientific description of bones; osteology.
  • ostreophage — someone who loves or eats oysters
  • ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
  • pacesetting — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
  • page turner — a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
  • page-turner — a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
  • pagoda tree — a Chinese leguminous tree, Sophora japonica, with ornamental white flowers and dark green foliage
  • palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
  • pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
  • paper tiger — a person, group, nation, or thing that has the appearance of strength or power but is actually weak or ineffectual.
  • paperweight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • paragenetic — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.
  • parapenting — a cross between hang-gliding and parachuting, a sport in which the participant jumps from a high place wearing a modified type of parachute, which is then used as a hang-glider
  • parcel-gilt — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • party-giver — a person who gives a party
  • pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
  • patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
  • paumgartner — Bernhard [bern-hahrt] /ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
  • pencil gate — any of a large number of narrow gates used for rapid distribution of metal in large castings.
  • penetrating — able or tending to penetrate; piercing; sharp: a penetrating shriek; a penetrating glance.
  • pentagonese — a style of language characterized by the use of euphemisms, technical jargon, acronyms, and circumlocutions, used especially by people working in the U.S. military establishment.
  • pentagonoid — like a pentagon in shape.
  • pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
  • pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
  • peregrinate — to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
  • perfect gas — ideal gas.
  • perigastric — located near or around the gastric system (predominantly the stomach)
  • petrography — the branch of petrology dealing with the description and classification of rocks, especially by microscopic examination.
  • phagocytize — (of a phagocyte) to devour (material).
  • phagocytose — phagocytize.
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