11-letter words containing a, s, g, e
- oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
- pacesetting — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- page design — the way a page is organized and presented
- page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
- palaeologus — family name of Byzantine rulers 1259–1453.
- palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- paragenesis — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.
- paris green — Chemistry. an emerald-green, poisonous, water-insoluble powder produced from arsenic trioxide and copper acetate: used chiefly as a pigment, insecticide, and wood preservative.
- parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- pass degree — (in English universities) an ordinary bachelor's degree conferred without honors.
- passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- pelagianism — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- pelagius ii — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pentagonese — a style of language characterized by the use of euphemisms, technical jargon, acronyms, and circumlocutions, used especially by people working in the U.S. military establishment.
- pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
- peppergrass — any pungent plant belonging to the genus Lepidium, of the mustard family, used as a potherb or salad vegetable.
- perfect gas — ideal gas.
- perigastric — located near or around the gastric system (predominantly the stomach)
- persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
- phagocytose — phagocytize.
- phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phase angle — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagioclase — any of the feldspar minerals varying in composition from acidic albite, NaAlSi 3 O 8 , to basic anorthite, CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , found in most igneous rocks: shows twinning striations on good cleavage surfaces.
- plagiostome — (of fish) belonging to the genus Plagiostomi, which includes sharks and rays, characterized by a transverse mouth with the jaw suspended from the skull
- plasmalogen — any of the class of phosphatides that contain an aldehyde of a fatty acid, found in heart and skeletal muscle, the brain, the liver, and in eggs.
- plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
- plate glass — a soda-lime-silica glass formed by rolling the hot glass into a plate that is subsequently ground and polished, used in large windows, mirrors, etc.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
- prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
- presagement — an omen
- press agent — a person employed to promote the interests of an individual, organization, etc., by obtaining favorable publicity through advertisements, mentions in columns, and the like.
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
- quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
- quasi-legal — permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.
- rangemaster — a person in charge of a firing range.
- rasterising — (algorithm) A transformation that can be applied to an image to prepare it for printing. Rasterising reduces resolution by a factor of typically four to eight. It also reduces sensitivity to paper properties. Rasterising can be combined with dithering.
- rasterizing — rasterising
- reaganomics — the economic policies put forth by the administration of President Ronald Reagan, especially as emphasizing supply-side theory.