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14-letter words containing a, r, p, e, g

  • positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
  • post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
  • powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
  • prairie-grouse — prairie chicken.
  • prayer meeting — a meeting chiefly for prayer.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • pre-generation — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • pre-teenager's — Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
  • prearrangement — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy
  • premier league — a professional football or soccer league consisting of the top teams in England and Wales
  • prenegotiation — taking place before a formal negotiation
  • preprogramming — the action of programming a computer in advance
  • preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
  • pressing plant — a manufacturing plant where phonograph records are produced by pressing in a mold or by stamping.
  • pressure gauge — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a gas or liquid.
  • printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
  • printing paper — sensitized paper for printing positives.
  • pro-management — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
  • processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
  • progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
  • programme note — A programme note is an article written in a programme for a play or concert, which gives information about the performance or production.
  • progress board — a department of an organization, company, etc, that oversees and ensures progress, advance or development
  • progressionary — relating to progression
  • prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
  • proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
  • proxy marriage — a marriage performed between one of the two contracting parties and a proxy who has been authorized to represent the other.
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
  • pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
  • purple grackle — the eastern subspecies of the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, of North America, having an iridescent purple back.
  • pygmy marmoset — a related form, Cebuella pygmaea: the smallest monkey, inhabiting tropical forests of the Amazon
  • pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • quiz programme — a radio or television programme in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions
  • radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
  • re-choreograph — to produce new choreography for (a particular work or piece of music)
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
  • reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
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