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12-letter words containing g, e, n, a, r

  • parallelling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
  • paramagnetic — 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.
  • parascending — parasailing
  • parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
  • paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
  • pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • permanganate — a salt of permanganic acid, as potassium permanganate.
  • perpetrating — to commit: to perpetrate a crime.
  • perpetuating — to make perpetual.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pigeon grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis aestivalis, of the eastern U.S., having leaves that are dull above and rusty beneath, and bearing black, edible fruit.
  • play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
  • plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
  • pornographer — a person who sells, produces, films, photographs, or writes pornography.
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
  • pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
  • pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • pregenerated — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
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