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10-letter words containing a, p, g, e

  • page break — a mark in an electronic document that indicates where the printer will start a new page
  • page chair — a chair of the 18th century having deep wings continued to form an arch over the seat.
  • page fault — (memory management)   In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
  • page proof — a trial proof printed from type that has been made up in page form, usually after galley corrections have been made, but before plates are made. Compare proof (def 12).
  • page three — a feature found on the third page of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun, consisting of a photograph of a female model with naked breasts
  • palaeogaea — the Old World as a biological region
  • palaeogene — of or formed in the Palaeocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs
  • palaeology — the study of prehistory
  • palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
  • palavering — a conference or discussion.
  • palm grove — small forest of palm trees
  • pan-german — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
  • panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
  • panegyrize — to deliver or write a panegyric about; eulogize.
  • panel game — a game in which the teams consists of two or more opposing panels or groups of people who discuss or decide on the answers, etc together
  • pangenesis — the theory that a reproductive cell contains gemmules or invisible germs that were derived from the individual cells from every part of the organism and that these gemmules are the bearers of hereditary attributes.
  • panguingue — a card game of the rummy family that is played with from five to eight regular 52-card packs from which the eights, nines, and tens have been removed, the object being to win bonuses by melding certain groups of cards during the play and extra bonuses by melding all the cards in the hand.
  • pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • paper gold — special drawing rights.
  • parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
  • paraglider — Also called parawing. a steerable glider with inflatable wings proposed for use as an emergency vehicle for travel between a space station and the earth or for the recovery of rocket boosters.
  • paragonite — a mica, similar in composition and appearance to muscovite but containing sodium instead of potassium.
  • paralogize — to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.
  • paramagnet — 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.
  • paraplegia — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
  • paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
  • paregmenon — the juxtaposition of words that have a common derivation, as in “sense and sensibility.”.
  • pargetting — the act of a person who pargets.
  • park range — a range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado. Highest peak, Mt. Lincoln, 14,287 feet (4355 meters).
  • park ridge — a city in NE Illinois.
  • partnering — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
  • party game — a game played at a party, esp at a children's party
  • party-goer — A party-goer is someone who likes going to parties or someone who is at a particular party.
  • pasargadae — an ancient ruined city in S Iran, NE of Persepolis: an early capital of ancient Persia; tomb of Cyrus the Great.
  • passageway — a way for passing into, through, or out of something, as within a building or between buildings; a corridor, hall, alley, catwalk, or the like.
  • patent log — any of various devices for determining the speed of a ship by means of a vaned rotor streamed at the end of a log line upon which it exerts a torsion transmitted to a registering device on board.
  • pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
  • patterning — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
  • peace sign — a sign representing “peace,” made by extending the forefinger and middle finger upward in a V -shape with the palm turned outward.
  • peacocking — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
  • pearl gray — a very pale bluish gray.
  • pearl grey — a light bluish-grey colour
  • pearmonger — a seller of pears
  • pedagogics — the science or art of teaching or education; pedagogy.
  • pedagogism — the principles, manner, method, or characteristics of pedagogues.
  • peking man — the skeletal remains of Homo erectus, formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis, found at Zhoukoudian, near Peking, China, in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II.
  • pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
  • pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
  • pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
  • percentage — a rate or proportion per hundred.
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