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15-letter words containing g, a, n, p, t, i

  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • polling station — voting venue
  • port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • portative organ — capable of being carried; portable.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • pre-negotiation — mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement: the negotiation of a treaty.
  • prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
  • preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
  • private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
  • pro-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
  • prognosticators — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • program trading — trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
  • publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
  • quintuplicating — Present participle of quintuplicate.
  • recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
  • rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
  • repeating group — (database)   Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • scratching post — a block or post of wood, usually covered with carpeting, on which a cat can use its claws.
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • sleeping tablet — A sleeping tablet is the same as a sleeping pill.
  • snapping beetle — click beetle.
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • speaking as sth — You can say 'speaking as a parent' or 'speaking as a teacher', for example, to indicate that the opinion you are giving is based on your experience as a parent or as a teacher.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
  • spring training — a program of physical exercise, practice, and exhibition games followed by a baseball team in the late winter and early spring, before the start of the regular season.
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • starting pistol — a pistol used to give the signal to start a race
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stop at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
  • supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
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