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12-letter words containing g, e, n, u, p

  • necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
  • outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • paying guest — lodger
  • penguin suit — a man's formal evening suit
  • pentyl group — any of the univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 5 H 1 1 –.
  • perpetuating — to make perpetual.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • phenyl group — the univalent group C 6 H 5 –, derived from benzene.
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
  • pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
  • plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
  • pneumatology — Theology. doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit. the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • pneumonology — the study of the respiratory system
  • 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.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • pudding rice — a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
  • pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
  • pudding-head — a stupid person
  • puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
  • puppeteering — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
  • pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
  • recuperating — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
  • rice pudding — dessert made from rice and milk
  • rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
  • running pine — a ground pine, Lycopodium clavatum.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
  • spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
  • spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
  • super-urgent — compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
  • supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
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