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13-letter words containing d, r, a, g, p

  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
  • gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • gran paradiso — the highest peak in the Graian Alps, in N Italy. 13,324 feet (4061 meters).
  • grand drapery — a valance across the proscenium arch, forming part of the decorative frame for the stage.
  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • grand passion — an intense or overwhelming attraction or love.
  • grand prairie — a city in NE Texas.
  • grandparental — Of or relating to a grandparent.
  • graphics card — graphics adaptor
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • gynandromorph — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • herod agrippa — (Julius Agrippa) c10 b.c.–a.d. 44, king of Judea 41–44 (grandson of Herod the Great).
  • highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • lambda prolog — (language)   An extension of standard Prolog defined by Dale A. Miller and Gopalan Nadathur in 1986, in which terms are strongly typed lambda terms. Clauses are higher order hereditary Harrop formulas. The main novelties are universal quantification on goals and implication. The Prolog/Mali compiler compiles Lambda Prolog for the MALI abstract memory system. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • landing party — a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.
  • landing strip — airstrip.
  • modula-prolog — Adds a Prolog layer to Modula-2. "Modula-Prolog: A Software Development Tool", C. Muller IEEE Software pp.39-45 (Nov 1986).
  • name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
  • parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
  • parotid gland — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
  • partridge pea — a North American plant, Cassia fasciculata, of the legume family, having yellow flowers and feathery compound leaves that fold shut when touched.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
  • perigean tide — an ocean tide that occurs in the spring, when the moon is at its perigee.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • 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
  • plug and pray — (humour)   The Windows 95 equivalent of the Macintosh's plug and play, referring to difficulties encountered when setting up new hardware under Windows 95.
  • post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • predesignated — to designate beforehand.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
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