13-letter words containing g, o, n, p
- groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
- group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
- group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
- growing pains — If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development.
- growing point — the undifferentiated end of a root, shoot, or vegetative axis consisting of a single cell or group of cells that divide to form primary meristematic tissue.
- gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- gynandromorph — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
- hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
- hitching post — a post to which horses, mules, etc., are tied.
- home shopping — buying items via tv or internet
- homing pigeon — any pigeon used to carry messages and equipped by training and breeding to fly home, sometimes from great distances.
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypnobirthing — the use of hypnotic techniques during labour by an expectant mother to reduce the pain and emotional stress of delivery
- hypostatizing — Present participle of hypostatize.
- hypothecating — Present participle of hypothecate.
- hypothesising — Present participle of hypothesise.
- hypothesizing — to form a hypothesis.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impignoration — the state of being mortgaged
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- in good shape — person: fit, healthy
- incorporating — to form into a legal corporation.
- intercropping — Present participle of intercrop.
- interpolating — Present participle of interpolate.
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- kernel parlog — (language) A modeless intermediate language for Parlog compilation.
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- knocking copy — advertising or publicity material designed to denigrate a competing product
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)