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

  • mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
  • 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.
  • noise shaping — (communications)   Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
  • nosogeography — the study of the geographical causes and distribution of diseases.
  • ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
  • oilspot glaze — a brown or black ceramic glaze dotted with silvery spots caused by impurities.
  • olympic games — international sports event
  • 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.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pager message — a message received by a pager
  • palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
  • palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
  • panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
  • 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.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • 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
  • passing place — a wider place on a narrow road where vehicles can pass
  • pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
  • pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
  • 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.
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • 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.
  • place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • plane sailing — sailing on a course plotted without reference to the curvature of the earth.
  • planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
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