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13-letter words containing g, a, s, e, p, r

  • hypermegasoma — gigantism.
  • iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
  • impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
  • ipecac spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia ipecacuanhae, of the eastern U.S.
  • laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
  • leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
  • legal process — court procedure
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
  • 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.
  • measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
  • megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
  • nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
  • newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
  • nosogeography — the study of the geographical causes and distribution of diseases.
  • ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
  • opera glasses — small binoculars
  • orchesography — a written study of dancing
  • orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
  • ostreophagous — oyster-eating
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • pager message — a message received by a pager
  • pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paramagnetism — 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.
  • parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • passage grave — a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic and Copper or early Bronze ages found in the British Isles and Europe, consisting of a roofed burial chamber and narrow entrance passage covered by a round mound and containing human remains and funerary offerings.
  • passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
  • passenger car — carriage of a train
  • passenger jet — a jet that carries passengers
  • pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
  • perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
  • perigastritis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the stomach
  • persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • post-marriage — (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.
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