14-letter words containing a, i, r, p, s, g
- prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
- prognosticator — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- progressionary — relating to progression
- propagandistic — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
- pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
- pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
- psychographics — the use of demographics to determine the attitudes and tastes of a particular segment of a population, as in marketing studies.
- pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
- pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- scorpion grass — either of two small Old World plants, Myosotis sylvatica or M. scorpioides, of the borage family, having a light-blue flower commonly regarded as an emblem of constancy and friendship.
- scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- selling-plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- sewing pattern — a guide or diagram that you follow to make clothes or other things using a needle and thread
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- shoe repairing — the trade of mending shoes
- shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
- sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
- sleep learning — the act or process of learning during sleep by listening to recordings repeatedly.
- sleep-learning — the idea that people can learn things while they are asleep
- sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
- smear campaign — a campaign to tarnish the reputation of a public figure, especially by vilification or innuendo.
- spanish dagger — a stemless or short-trunked plant, Yucca gloriosa, of the agave family, native to the southeastern U.S., having leaves nearly 2½ feet (75 cm) long, with a stiff, sharp point, and greenish-white or reddish flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
- spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
- sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
- sparring match — a practice boxing match
- speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
- spear-phishing — the practice of sending fraudulent e-mails to extract financial data from computer users for purposes of identity theft, by mimicking a sender that the recipient knows
- spectrological — relating to spectres or spectrology
- speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
- spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
- spirit rapping — a form of communication between living persons and the spirits of deceased persons by tapping out messages on a table, board, or the like.
- spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
- sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
- sporangiospore — a spore that is produced within a sporangium.
- spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- springform pan — a metal cake pan with sides that can be unfastened to facilitate releasing the cake when done.