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13-letter words containing g, a, n, p, t

  • heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • heavy petting — Informal. intense petting that involves mutual stimulation of the genitals but not sexual intercourse.
  • hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
  • hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
  • hypervigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hypostatizing — Present participle of hypostatize.
  • hypothecating — Present participle of hypothecate.
  • image printer — a printer which uses optical technology to produce an image of a complete page from digital input
  • impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
  • impignoration — the state of being mortgaged
  • incorporating — to form into a legal corporation.
  • interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
  • interpolating — Present participle of interpolate.
  • kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
  • kinematograph — cinematograph.
  • landing party — a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.
  • landing strip — airstrip.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
  • magnetic tape — strip sensitive to electromagnets
  • magnetic-tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
  • magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
  • magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
  • mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • meeting place — A meeting place is a place where people meet.
  • megalopolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
  • monophthongal — (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a monophthong.
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
  • nailing strip — a strip of wood or other partly yielding material attached to a hard surface, as of steel or concrete, so that objects may be nailed to the surface.
  • negative pole — the south-seeking pole of a magnet
  • nonpathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
  • nonpracticing — not currently practicing one's profession, religion, etc.: a nonpracticing physician.
  • nonpractising — of or relating to a person who no longer observes or pursues his or her religious faith
  • onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
  • oppignoration — the act or an instance of pawning or pledging
  • 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.
  • organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
  • p'u-t'ung hua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
  • 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 plant — an establishment for processing and packing foods, especially meat, to be sold at wholesale.
  • painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
  • pair trawling — the act or practice of using two boats to trawl for fish
  • palaeontology — Palaeontology is the study of fossils as a guide to the history of life on Earth.
  • paleethnology — (formerly) the branch of ethnology concerned with the earliest or most primitive human societies.
  • paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
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