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14-letter words containing g, o, p, h, e

  • oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
  • oesophagoscope — Alternative form of esophagoscope.
  • on the rampage — behaving violently or destructively
  • on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
  • opechancanough — c1545–1644, Algonquian leader, brother of Powhatan: led Jamestown massacre 1622.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • orthopterology — the study of the Orthoptera
  • palaeethnology — the study of prehistoric man
  • paleogeography — the science of representing the earth's geographic features belonging to any part of the geologic past.
  • paleontography — the formal description of fossils
  • paroemiography — the writing or collecting of proverbs
  • parole hearing — a panel of people who decide whether to free a prisoner before his or her sentence has expired, on the condition that he or she is of good behaviour
  • patch together — assemble roughly
  • perhydrogenate — to hydrogenate as completely as possible.
  • perhydrogenize — perhydrogenate.
  • phenologically — in a phenological manner
  • photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
  • photogeologist — a person who studies or has a profession in photogeology
  • photogrammetry — the process of making surveys and maps through the use of photographs, especially aerial photographs.
  • photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
  • phototelegraph — of or relating to phototelegraphy
  • phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • phytogeography — the science dealing with the geographical relationships of plants.
  • piece of eight — peso (def 4).
  • piece together — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
  • pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
  • plagiocephalic — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • plotting sheet — a blank chart having only a compass rose and latitude lines, longitude lines, or both, marked and annotated, as required, by a navigator.
  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • polygon pusher — (Or "rectangle slinger"). A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-coloured polygons).
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • porphyrogenite — a prince born after his father has succeeded to the throne
  • pre-psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
  • property right — a legal right to or in a particular property.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • put on the dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
  • re-choreograph — to produce new choreography for (a particular work or piece of music)
  • reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
  • rhyparographer — someone who paints rhyparographic pictures
  • roentgenograph — roentgenogram.
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
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