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13-letter words containing a, p, o, l, g, e

  • pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
  • polemological — the analysis of human conflict and war, particularly international war.
  • polling place — a place at or in which votes in an election are cast.
  • polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
  • polygamophile — a person who approves of or countenances polygamy, especially as practiced by others.
  • polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
  • polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
  • ponta delgada — a seaport on SW São Miguel island, in the E Azores.
  • port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
  • progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
  • pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • telephone tag — repeated unsuccessful attempts by two persons to connect with one another by telephone.
  • temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
  • the paleogene — the Paleogene subdivision of the Tertiary Period or its rocks
  • tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
  • zygapophyseal — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.
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