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11-letter words containing g, l, a, r

  • outgenerals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgeneral.
  • overeagerly — In an overeager manner.
  • overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
  • overloading — (language)   (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types.
  • overvoltage — Electricity. excess voltage.
  • paleography — ancient forms of writing, as in documents and inscriptions.
  • palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
  • panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
  • paragliding — a sport resembling hang gliding, in which a person jumps from an aircraft or high place wearing a wide, rectangular, steerable parachute.
  • paraglossal — of or relating to paraglossae
  • paralleling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
  • parasailing — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
  • parcel-gilt — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
  • parlor game — any game usually played indoors, especially in the living room or parlor, as a word game or a quiz, requiring little or no physical activity.
  • patrologist — a student of patrology.
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
  • pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
  • periglacial — occurring or operating adjacent to the margin of a glacier.
  • philography — the collecting of autographs, especially those of famous persons.
  • phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
  • phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • pilgarlicky — bald or growing bald
  • pilgrimager — a pilgrim
  • plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plagiarizer — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • planigraphy — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
  • planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • polarograph — a device for analysing ions in solution by using an electrolytic cell with a very small cathode
  • poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
  • polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • pragmatical — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • pre-algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • preen gland — uropygial gland.
  • preterlegal — being beyond the scope or limits of law.
  • primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
  • primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
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