13-letter words containing a, g, t, e, s
- orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
- osmoregulator — Any organism that practices osmoregulation.
- ostreophagous — oyster-eating
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
- palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
- parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- passenger jet — a jet that carries passengers
- pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
- perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
- perigastritis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the stomach
- persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- postage costs — the cost of having mail delivered
- postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
- postage rates — the rates charged for the delivery of mail, depending on type, weight etc
- postage stamp — small adhesive label for mail
- postage-stamp — of very small area or size: a postage-stamp bikini.
- predesignated — to designate beforehand.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- press-agentry — the vocation or responsibilities of a press agent.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- raising agent — in baking, a substance added to dough to make it rise
- raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
- reagent strip — A reagent strip is a thin piece of paper impregnated with a reagent (= a substance that causes a chemical reaction) to a specific substance, used in testing for that substance in a body of fluid.
- reassignation — an appointment for a meeting, especially a lover's secret rendezvous.
- redesignation — an act of designating.
- regent's park — a park in central London, laid out as Marylebone Park by John Nash; now known for the London Zoo, its open-air theatre, and Nash's curved terraces
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
- reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.