12-letter words containing e, p, i, g, n
- one's pigeon — one's special concern, or business
- opening time — You can refer to the time that a shop, bank, library, or bar opens for business as its opening time.
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- optogenetics — (genetics) A science that combines optics and genetics to probe neural circuits.
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overcropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
- overpowering — that overpowers; overwhelming: an overpowering conviction of the truth.
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paedogenesis — sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features
- page printer — Computers. a high-speed, high-resolution printer that uses a light source, as a laser beam or electrically charged ions, to print a full page of text or graphics at a time.
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
- palingenesis — rebirth; regeneration.
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- paperhanging — the activity or business of a paperhanger.
- parallelling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- parascending — parasailing
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
- parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
- parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
- passing bell — a bell tolled to announce a death or funeral.
- passing lane — a highway lane in which a driver may pass other vehicles legally.
- passing note — a note that is foreign to a harmony and is introduced between two successive chord tones in order to produce a melodic transition.
- 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.
- patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- pathogenesis — the production and development of disease.
- pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
- patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
- paving stone — slab used to lay a path
- paying guest — lodger
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- peacekeeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- penguin suit — a man's formal evening suit
- penning gate — a sluice gate that opens by lifting upward.
- percent sign — a symbol (%) for “percent”: a 10% drop in population.
- perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
- perpetrating — to commit: to perpetrate a crime.
- perpetuating — to make perpetual.
- perplexingly — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.