13-letter words containing a, n, g, s
- orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- organisations — Plural form of organisation.
- organizations — The action of organizing something.
- organoarsenic — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to arsenic bond.
- organogenesis — Biology. the origin and development of an organ.
- organosilicon — pertaining to or noting an organic compound containing silicon, especially where attached directly to a carbon atom.
- organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
- originalities — Plural form of originality.
- orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
- orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
- outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
- outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
- overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
- overeagerness — The quality of being overeager; excessive readiness or enthusiasm.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
- palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pangola grass — a grass, Digitaria decumbens, native to southern Africa, cultivated for hay and forage in the southeastern U.S.
- pangrammatist — a writer of pangrams
- panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
- 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
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- 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.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
- parting strip — a strip, as of wood, used to keep two parts separated, as one in each side of the frame of a window to keep the sashes apart when lowered or raised.
- passenger car — carriage of a train
- passenger jet — a jet that carries passengers
- passing place — a wider place on a narrow road where vehicles can pass
- pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
- pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
- persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phong shading — (graphics) A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.