12-letter words containing g, o, a, l, p
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
- ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
- repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- ripe old age — advanced age
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- rolling plan — a plan which is designed to continue over a period of time and is subject to regular review and updating
- salpiglossis — any solanaceous plant of the Chilean genus Salpiglossis, some species of which are cultivated for their bright funnel-shaped flowers
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
- smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- supraglottal — situated above the glottis
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- yellow pages — Network Information Service