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11-letter words containing g, a, p, e

  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • poached egg — A poached egg is an egg cooked gently in boiling water, without its shell.
  • polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
  • pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
  • port orange — a city in E Florida.
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • potamogeton — a plant of the Potamogeton genus of perennial aquatic plants, known also as pondweed
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
  • pragmatizer — someone who pragmatizes
  • prairie dog — any of several burrowing rodents of the genus Cynomys, of North American prairies, having a barklike cry: some are endangered.
  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • pre-algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
  • pre-arrange — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
  • pre-bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  • pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
  • pre-warning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • prearranged — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
  • preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
  • preen gland — uropygial gland.
  • pregenerate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
  • premarriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
  • prepackaged — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
  • presagement — an omen
  • press agent — a person employed to promote the interests of an individual, organization, etc., by obtaining favorable publicity through advertisements, mentions in columns, and the like.
  • preterlegal — being beyond the scope or limits of law.
  • pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
  • primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
  • prodigalize — to spend lavishly
  • programable — capable of being programmed.
  • prolegomena — a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.
  • prolongable — able to be lengthened
  • prolongated — to prolong.
  • promenading — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
  • promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
  • propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
  • psychagogue — a necromancer
  • ptyalagogue — an item that causes the flow of saliva
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