13-letter words containing g, r, a, s, p
- myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
- nailing strip — a strip of wood or other partly yielding material attached to a hard surface, as of steel or concrete, so that objects may be nailed to the surface.
- nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
- newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
- nonpractising — of or relating to a person who no longer observes or pursues his or her religious faith
- nosogeography — the study of the geographical causes and distribution of diseases.
- ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
- opera glasses — small binoculars
- opisthography — the practice of writing on the front and back of a parchment or papyrus
- orchesography — a written study of dancing
- organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
- orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
- oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
- oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
- ostreophagous — oyster-eating
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- pager message — a message received by a pager
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pangola grass — a grass, Digitaria decumbens, native to southern Africa, cultivated for hay and forage in the southeastern U.S.
- pangrammatist — a writer of pangrams
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
- paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
- parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- parting strip — a strip, as of wood, used to keep two parts separated, as one in each side of the frame of a window to keep the sashes apart when lowered or raised.
- passage grave — a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic and Copper or early Bronze ages found in the British Isles and Europe, consisting of a roofed burial chamber and narrow entrance passage covered by a round mound and containing human remains and funerary offerings.
- passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
- passenger car — carriage of a train
- passenger jet — a jet that carries passengers
- pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
- perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
- perigastritis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the stomach
- persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- plagiotropism — plagiotropic tendency or growth.