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11-letter words containing g, r, e, y, p

  • lower egyptArab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
  • murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • myelography — the production of myelograms.
  • osteography — The scientific description of bones; osteology.
  • ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
  • paleography — ancient forms of writing, as in documents and inscriptions.
  • panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
  • panegyricon — a collection of sermons
  • party-giver — a person who gives a party
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
  • peregrinity — foreignness; strangeness; the quality of being peregrine
  • perissology — the use of a superfluity of words; an expression of something using more words than necessary
  • petroglyphy — the skill or procedure of making rock carvings
  • petrography — the branch of petrology dealing with the description and classification of rocks, especially by microscopic examination.
  • phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • pilferingly — in the manner of a pilferer
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • ponderingly — in a pondering manner
  • potteringly — in a pottering fashion, slowly
  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • presumingly — presumptuous.
  • prophesying — to foretell or predict.
  • proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
  • pteridology — the branch of botany dealing with ferns and related plants, as the horsetails and club mosses.
  • pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
  • pyrargyrite — a blackish mineral, silver antimony sulfide, AgSbS 3 , showing, when transparent, a deep ruby-red color by transmitted light; ruby silver: an ore of silver.
  • pyrgeometer — an instrument for measuring the loss of heat by radiation from the earth's surface
  • pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
  • pyrogenetic — heat-producing
  • pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
  • repellingly — in a way that repels, repellently
  • repentingly — in a repenting fashion; repentantly
  • reprography — the reproduction and duplication of documents, written materials, drawings, designs, etc., by any process making use of light rays or photographic means, including offset printing, microfilming, photography, office duplicating, and the like.
  • reprovingly — to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake.
  • repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
  • spreadingly — in a spreading manner
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
  • supergalaxy — a system of galaxies.
  • trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.
  • typedprolog — (language)   A strongly typed logic programming language.
  • typewriting — the act or skill of using a typewriter.
  • typographer — a person skilled or engaged in typography.
  • upper egyptArab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
  • videography — the art or process of making films with a video camera.
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