13-letter words containing g, i, o, r
- plagiotropism — plagiotropic tendency or growth.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pony trekking — the act of riding ponies cross-country, esp as a pastime
- port engineer — a person who is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the machinery of the vessels of a shipping line and for the supervision of its engineering personnel.
- 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.
- postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- posting error — an error made while carrying over an entry from a journal to a ledger
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
- praxiological — the study of human conduct.
- pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
- preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- prepossessing — that impresses favorably; engaging or attractive: a confident and prepossessing young man.
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- prince george — a city in central British Columbia, in W Canada.
- print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
- prix goncourt — Goncourt (def 2).
- profit margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
- profit taking — the selling of securities that have risen in price above costs; selling in order to realize a profit.
- profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
- profit-taking — Profit-taking is the selling of stocks and shares at a profit after their value has risen or just before their value falls.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
- progestogenic — relating to progestogen
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- progressively — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivity — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.