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13-letter words containing g, o, n, a, p

  • open learning — a system of further education on a flexible part-time basis
  • open marriage — a marriage in which the partners agree that each is free to have sexual relationships with other partners.
  • oppignoration — the act or an instance of pawning or pledging
  • organotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the use of remedies prepared from the organs of animals, as from the thyroid gland, the pancreas, or the suprarenal bodies.
  • organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
  • oropharyngeal — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
  • over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • paddling pool — A paddling pool is a shallow artificial pool for children to paddle in.
  • palaeontology — Palaeontology is the study of fossils as a guide to the history of life on Earth.
  • paleethnology — (formerly) the branch of ethnology concerned with the earliest or most primitive human societies.
  • paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
  • pangola grass — a grass, Digitaria decumbens, native to southern Africa, cultivated for hay and forage in the southeastern U.S.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
  • parotid gland — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
  • pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
  • pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
  • pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
  • patronizingly — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
  • peregrination — travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
  • peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
  • persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
  • pertaining to — having to do with
  • pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
  • phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
  • pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
  • phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
  • phone-tapping — Phone-tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone-tapping is illegal.
  • phong shading — (graphics)   A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
  • photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
  • photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
  • photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
  • photographing — a picture produced by photography.
  • photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • phytopathogen — an organism that causes disease in plants
  • pidginization — to develop (a language) into a pidgin.
  • piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
  • pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pigouvian tax — a tax levied to counter an economic negative externality, for example taxing producers of industrial pollution in order to encourage pollution control
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