12-letter words containing a, p, g, e
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- suckers' gap — a temporary improvement, occurring between two periods of inclement weather, which deceives people into acting in expectation of continued fine weather
- supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
- supercharger — a mechanism for forcing air into an internal-combustion engine in order to increase engine power.
- supererogate — to do more than duty requires.
- superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- tape editing — the process of putting the various segments of a master video or audio tape into a predetermined sequence: usually done electronically.
- target group — intended audience or customers
- target price — anticipated retail cost
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- the pentagon — a five-sided building in Arlington, Va., in which the main offices of the U.S. Department of Defense are located; hence, the U.S. military establishment
- thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
- top sergeant — a first sergeant.
- tracing tape — (on a building site) one of several lines stretched between batter boards to outline the foundations.
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
- typing paper — paper for typing on
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- unappetizing — appealing to or stimulating the appetite; savory.
- underlapping — to extend partly under.
- undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
- unexpurgated — to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
- unimpugnable — not capable of being challenged or criticized
- unpleasingly — in an unpleasing manner
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unprogrammed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- up a gumtree — in a very awkward position; in difficulties
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- voting paper — a ballot.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
- watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
- weaponeering — the act of fitting out with weapons
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- wedge-shaped — shaped like a wedge
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- yellow pages — Network Information Service