12-letter words containing a, l, g, r, p
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
- play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
- play through — to pass another foursome or group with their permission, while playing a round of golf
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polarography — Chemistry. the use of a Polarograph to perform qualitative or quantitative analyses.
- pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- 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).
- port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
- porto alegre — a state in S Brazil. 107,923 sq. mi. (279,520 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Alegre.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
- pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- problem page — a feature in a newspaper, magazine, etc in which readers' problems are published and answers supplied
- 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.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- programmable — capable of being programmed.
- 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.).
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
- quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
- quadriplegia — paralysis of all four limbs or of the entire body below the neck.
- quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
- ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
- reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
- repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- ripe old age — advanced age
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- rolling plan — a plan which is designed to continue over a period of time and is subject to regular review and updating
- rugby player — a person who plays rugby
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.