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13-letter words containing e, g, p

  • morphographer — a person who scientifically describes form
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mule spinning — a process of spinning that produces extremely fine yarn by drawing and twisting the roving, and winding the resultant yarn onto a bobbin or spindle in the form of a cop.
  • mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
  • mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
  • 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.
  • nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
  • negative pole — the south-seeking pole of a magnet
  • nephrological — of or relating to nephrology
  • newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
  • noise shaping — (communications)   Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
  • nonpathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
  • nonperceiving — Unperceiving.
  • nonperforming — not performing well or properly.
  • nonprogrammer — a person who is not a programmer
  • nosogeography — the study of the geographical causes and distribution of diseases.
  • ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
  • oceanographer — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
  • oceanographic — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
  • oilspot glaze — a brown or black ceramic glaze dotted with silvery spots caused by impurities.
  • oligopeptides — Plural form of oligopeptide.
  • olympic games — international sports event
  • open learning — a system of further education on a flexible part-time basis
  • open marriage — a marriage in which the partners agree that each is free to have sexual relationships with other partners.
  • open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • opening night — the first performance of a theatrical attraction, taking place in the evening: The audience was full of celebrities on opening night.
  • opera glasses — small binoculars
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
  • orchesography — a written study of dancing
  • organotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the use of remedies prepared from the organs of animals, as from the thyroid gland, the pancreas, or the suprarenal bodies.
  • oropharyngeal — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
  • orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
  • orthographize — to spell correctly or according to the rules of orthography.
  • ostreophagous — oyster-eating
  • outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • over-cropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
  • over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • overreporting — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pager message — a message received by a pager
  • palaeobiology — the study of fossil plants and animals
  • palaeoecology — the study of fossil animals and plants in order to deduce their ecology and the environmental conditions in which they lived
  • palaeontology — Palaeontology is the study of fossils as a guide to the history of life on Earth.
  • palaeozoology — the study of fossil animals
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