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17-letter words containing a, g, s, p

  • paradise regained — an epic poem (1671) by John Milton.
  • paralysis agitans — Parkinson's disease
  • paratungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H10W12O14
  • partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
  • pascal's triangle — a triangular arrangement of the binomial coefficients of the expansion (x + y) n for positive integral values of n.
  • passenger station — a station used by passengers
  • passenger traffic — number of passengers
  • pastoral theology — the branch of theology dealing with the responsibilities of members of the clergy to the people under their care.
  • pate de foie gras — See under foie gras.
  • paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • persona non grata — a person who is not welcome: He has become persona non grata in our club since his angry outburst.
  • personnel manager — head of Human Resources department
  • physical training — fitness coaching
  • picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
  • pillion passenger — a person who travels in a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc
  • pittsburg landing — a village in SW Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: battle of Shiloh in 1862.
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • poison-arrow frog — a small, bright-colored terrestrial frog of the family Dendrobatidae, of Central and South American rain forests, that secretes a virulent poison from its skin, once used on the tips of Indian hunting arrows.
  • poor man's orange — a grapefruit
  • portuguese guinea — former name of Guinea-Bissau.
  • postage due stamp — a stamp that is affixed to mail at a post office when prepayment of postage is insufficient, to indicate the amount that must be collected from the addressee.
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • pre-investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
  • precision casting — investment casting.
  • pressure gradient — the change of pressure per unit distance
  • program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
  • progressive party — a political party formed in 1912 under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, advocating popular control of government, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, woman suffrage, etc.
  • prolonged-release — A prolonged-release drug delivers a dose of a medication over an extended period of time.
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudo-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
  • psychodiagnostics — the study and evaluation of character or personality in terms of behavioral and anatomical traits, as gesture, posture and physiognomy.
  • psychographically — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • request programme — a programme on the radio where listeners can request certain songs or tracks
  • right parenthesis — (character)   ")". ASCII character 41. Common names: right paren; right parenthesis; right; close; thesis ("(" = paren); close paren; close parenthesis; right parenthesis; right banana. Rare: already ("(" = so); rparen; ITU-T: closing parenthesis; close round bracket, right round bracket, INTERCAL: wane ("(" = wax); unparenthisey ("(" = parenthisey); right ear. Paired with left parenthesis.
  • rough puff pastry — a rich flaky pastry made with butter and used for pie-crusts, flans, etc
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
  • self-impregnating — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • self-perpetuating — continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • separating funnel — a large funnel having a tap in its output tube, used to separate immiscible liquids
  • separation energy — binding energy (def 1).
  • septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
  • severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
  • shetland sheepdog — one of a breed of small sheepdogs resembling a miniature collie, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
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