13-letter words containing a, r, s, g
- overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
- overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
- overeagerness — The quality of being overeager; excessive readiness or enthusiasm.
- overlay glass — case glass.
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- pager message — a message received by a pager
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pangola grass — a grass, Digitaria decumbens, native to southern Africa, cultivated for hay and forage in the southeastern U.S.
- pangrammatist — a writer of pangrams
- pantagruelism — (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-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
- paramagnetism — 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.
- parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
- parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- parting strip — a strip, as of wood, used to keep two parts separated, as one in each side of the frame of a window to keep the sashes apart when lowered or raised.
- passage grave — a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic and Copper or early Bronze ages found in the British Isles and Europe, consisting of a roofed burial chamber and narrow entrance passage covered by a round mound and containing human remains and funerary offerings.
- passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
- passenger car — carriage of a train
- passenger jet — a jet that carries passengers
- pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
- perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
- perigastritis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the stomach
- persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- plagiotropism — plagiotropic tendency or growth.
- playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- polysomnogram — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
- postage rates — the rates charged for the delivery of mail, depending on type, weight etc
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.