12-letter words containing e, p, i, g, r, a
- impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- interplaying — Present participle of interplay.
- interspacing — Present participle of interspace.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardizing — Present participle of jeopardize.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
- linear graph — graph (def 2b).
- linear-graph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
- magic carpet — flying rug in fantasy stories
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- martempering — a quenching process used to harden austenitic steel.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- napier grass — a tall, leafy grass, Pennisetum purpureum, native to Africa, grown as a forage plant.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- nonoperating — Not operating.
- oligophrenia — less than normal mental development.
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- optical grep — vgrep
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- 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.
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
- 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
- paroemiology — the study of proverbs
- parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
- 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.