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12-letter words containing e, g, r, s

  • overgenerous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
  • paraglossate — having paraglossae
  • parascending — parasailing
  • passage work — 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.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pearly gates — the entrance to heaven.
  • percent sign — a symbol (%) for “percent”: a 10% drop in population.
  • perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • petrogenesis — the branch of petrology dealing with the origin and formation of rocks.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
  • phraseograph — a phrase for which there is a phraseogram.
  • phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • piercingness — the quality or condition of being piercing
  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
  • plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
  • pre-existing — to exist beforehand.
  • pre-shipping — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
  • predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
  • predisposing — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • prescreening — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • press agency — news-reporting organization
  • prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
  • priggishness — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
  • pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • progenitress — a female progenitor (parent or ancestor)
  • progesterone — Biochemistry. a hormone, C 2 1 H 3 0 O 2 , that prepares the uterus for the fertilized ovum and maintains pregnancy.
  • prophesyings — gatherings held to expound the prophecies of the Scriptures
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
  • pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
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