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11-letter words containing e, a, g, r

  • party-giver — a person who gives a party
  • 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.
  • patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
  • paumgartner — Bernhard [bern-hahrt] /ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
  • pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
  • penetrating — able or tending to penetrate; piercing; sharp: a penetrating shriek; a penetrating glance.
  • pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
  • pepper game — a pregame warm-up performed at a brisk rate, in which one batter bunts back balls tossed by fielders stationed a short distance away.
  • peppergrass — any pungent plant belonging to the genus Lepidium, of the mustard family, used as a potherb or salad vegetable.
  • peregrinate — to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
  • perfect gas — ideal gas.
  • perigastric — located near or around the gastric system (predominantly the stomach)
  • periglacial — occurring or operating adjacent to the margin of a glacier.
  • perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
  • permanganic — of or derived from permanganic acid.
  • persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
  • petrography — the branch of petrology dealing with the description and classification of rocks, especially by microscopic examination.
  • 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).
  • phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
  • 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.
  • pilgrimager — a pilgrim
  • plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plagiarizer — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
  • port orange — a city in E Florida.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • pragmatizer — someone who pragmatizes
  • prairie dog — any of several burrowing rodents of the genus Cynomys, of North American prairies, having a barklike cry: some are endangered.
  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • pre-algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
  • pre-arrange — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
  • pre-bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  • pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
  • pre-warning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • prearranged — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
  • preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
  • preen gland — uropygial gland.
  • pregenerate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
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