12-letter words containing a, p, g, e
- pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
- patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
- paving stone — slab used to lay a path
- paying guest — lodger
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- peacekeeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- pearly gates — the entrance to heaven.
- penalty goal — a goal scored as a result of a penalty
- penning gate — a sluice gate that opens by lifting upward.
- pentadecagon — a polygon having 15 angles and 15 sides.
- pentagonally — in a pentagonal manner; in the fashion of a pentagon
- perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
- perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
- perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
- permanganate — a salt of permanganic acid, as potassium permanganate.
- perpetrating — to commit: to perpetrate a crime.
- perpetuating — to make perpetual.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- pestological — relating to pestology
- pet scanning — the action or process of using a PET scanner to obtain an image.
- petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
- phagocytoses — phagocytize.
- phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phengophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of natural light
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- phlebography — venography.
- phlegmagogic — a medication that is intended to dislodge and evacuate mucus from the respiratory system
- photo-ageing — premature wrinkling of the skin caused by overexposure to sunlight
- photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
- photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
- photographer — a person who takes photographs, especially one who practices photography professionally.
- photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
- photomontage — a combination of several photographs joined together for artistic effect or to show more of the subject than can be shown in a single photograph.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
- phraseograph — a phrase for which there is a phraseogram.
- phytographer — a botanist involved with plant description
- pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
- piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pigeon grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis aestivalis, of the eastern U.S., having leaves that are dull above and rusty beneath, and bearing black, edible fruit.
- pigmentation — coloration, especially of the skin.
- pineal gland — a small, cone-shaped endocrine organ in the posterior forebrain, secreting melatonin and involved in biorhythms and gonadal development.
- pipe jacking — a method of laying underground pipelines by assembling the pipes at the foot of an access shaft and pushing them through the ground
- piss-elegant — displaying a contrived, often pretentious, sophistication, opulence, etc.
- placentology — the scientific study of the placenta
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- 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.