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15-letter words containing a, g

  • palynologically — from a palynological point of view
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
  • parent language — an earlier language from which another is derived.
  • parish magazine — a magazine containing news and articles of interest to the people of a particular parish church or the local area
  • parish register — the register of the christenings, marriages, and burials in a parish.
  • parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
  • paroemiographer — a person who writes or collects proverbs
  • parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • parthenogenetic — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • passenger coach — a carriage in which passengers sit
  • passenger ferry — a ferry that carries passengers
  • passenger train — railway train that carries people
  • passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
  • patagonian hare — a burrowing, gray, long-eared and long-legged cavy of the genus Dolichotis, native to South America.
  • patent engineer — a person who draws up applications for patents
  • pathophysiology — the physiology of abnormal or diseased organisms or their parts; the functional changes associated with a disease or syndrome.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
  • pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
  • pematangsiantar — a city on NE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • peter the great — ("the Great") 1672–1725, czar of Russia 1682–1725.
  • pharmacological — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • phase-switching — a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna
  • phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • phosphate group — the group or radical obtained by removal of one or more hydrogen atoms from phosphoric acid.
  • photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
  • photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
  • photoheliograph — an instrument for photographing the sun, consisting of a camera and a specially adapted telescope.
  • photolithograph — Also, photolithoprint [foh-tuh-lith-uh-print] /ˌfoʊ təˈlɪθ əˌprɪnt/ (Show IPA). a lithograph printed from a stone or the like upon which a picture or design has been formed by photography.
  • photomacrograph — a photograph showing a subject at actual size or somewhat larger.
  • photomicrograph — a photograph taken through a microscope.
  • phototelegraphy — facsimile (def 2a).
  • phototopography — topographical surveying employing photogrammetric methods.
  • phototypography — (formerly) the art or technique of making printing surfaces by light or photography, by any of a large number of processes.
  • photoxylography — the process of using photography in order to produce an image on wood, for the use of a wood engraver
  • phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
  • phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
  • physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
  • physiologically — of or relating to physiology.
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