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

  • mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
  • microphages — Plural form of microphage.
  • mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • neopaganism — a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities.
  • nonspeaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • oesophageal — esophageal.
  • osteography — The scientific description of bones; osteology.
  • ostreophage — someone who loves or eats oysters
  • ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
  • page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
  • palaeologus — family name of Byzantine rulers 1259–1453.
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • pentagonese — a style of language characterized by the use of euphemisms, technical jargon, acronyms, and circumlocutions, used especially by people working in the U.S. military establishment.
  • pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
  • phagocytose — phagocytize.
  • phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
  • phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • plagioclase — any of the feldspar minerals varying in composition from acidic albite, NaAlSi 3 O 8 , to basic anorthite, CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , found in most igneous rocks: shows twinning striations on good cleavage surfaces.
  • plagiostome — (of fish) belonging to the genus Plagiostomi, which includes sharks and rays, characterized by a transverse mouth with the jaw suspended from the skull
  • plasmalogen — any of the class of phosphatides that contain an aldehyde of a fatty acid, found in heart and skeletal muscle, the brain, the liver, and in eggs.
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • 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
  • 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
  • sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
  • saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
  • sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
  • sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
  • space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
  • specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
  • spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
  • sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
  • sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
  • sports page — newspaper page carrying sports results
  • steatopygia — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
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