12-letter words containing a, g, r, o, n
- patrol wagon — an enclosed truck or van used by the police to transport prisoners.
- perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
- phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- pharyngology — the science of the pharynx and its diseases.
- pharyngotomy — surgical incision into the pharynx
- phonographic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a phonograph.
- photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
- phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
- pig-ignorant — extremely ignorant or unknowledgeable
- pigeon grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis aestivalis, of the eastern U.S., having leaves that are dull above and rusty beneath, and bearing black, edible fruit.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
- pogonophoran — any member of the small phylum Pogonophora, slender tentacled animals having a tubelike outer covering, living on the deep ocean bottom.
- pogson ratio — the brightness ratio of two celestial objects that differ by one magnitude. On the Pogson scale a difference of 5 magnitudes is defined as a difference of 100 in the intensities of two stars; therefore a difference of 1 magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100, i.e. 2.512
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
- ponta grossa — a city in S Brazil.
- popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
- pornographer — a person who sells, produces, films, photographs, or writes pornography.
- pornographic — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
- prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- premigration — occurring before migration
- prenegotiate — to discuss before a formal negotiation
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- progradation — seaward growth of a beach, delta, fan, etc., by progressive deposition of sediment by rivers or shoreline processes.
- program note — A program note is an article written in a program for a play or concert that gives information about the performance or production.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
- prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- proofreading — correction of text
- propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
- propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- propagandize — to propagate or publicize (principles, dogma, etc.) by means of propaganda.
- propugnation — defence
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- race norming — the process of statistically adjusting the scores of minority job applicants on job-qualification tests by rating each test-taker's score against the results of others in his or her racial or ethnic group.
- racing homer — a kind of homing pigeon used for racing
- ragged robin — a plant, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family, having pink or white flowers with dissected petals.
- ragman rolls — Usually, ragman rolls. a series of documents in which the Scottish nobles acknowledged their allegiance to Edward I of England, 1291–92 and 1296.
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride