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12-letter words containing g, r, i, p, s

  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
  • mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
  • microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
  • morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
  • morphologist — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
  • myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
  • napier grass — a tall, leafy grass, Pennisetum purpureum, native to Africa, grown as a forage plant.
  • nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
  • newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
  • night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
  • oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
  • opera singer — a professional singer of opera
  • opisthograph — a manuscript, parchment, or book having writing on both sides of the leaves.
  • oscillograph — 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.
  • outcroppings — Plural form of outcropping.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • outstripping — to outdo; surpass; excel.
  • overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
  • paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
  • paraphrasing — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • parascending — parasailing
  • parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
  • parting shot — a threat, insult, condemnation, sarcastic retort, or the like, uttered upon leaving.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • percent sign — a symbol (%) for “percent”: a 10% drop in population.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • petrogenesis — the branch of petrology dealing with the origin and formation of rocks.
  • phillipsburg — a city in NW New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
  • physiography — the science of physical geography.
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • piercingness — the quality or condition of being piercing
  • pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • pogson ratio — the brightness ratio of two celestial objects that differ by one magnitude. On the Pogson scale a difference of 5 magnitudes is defined as a difference of 100 in the intensities of two stars; therefore a difference of 1 magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100, i.e. 2.512
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
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